About the ADAPT Project

Dr. Abi Gewirtz and her team at the University of Minnesota, are partnering with the MN National Guard and Reserves to develop and test parenting resources for families of school-aged children who have gone through the deployment process.

Over the next five years, we will be recruiting 400 National Guard and Reserve families to participate in a study about parenting and children’s adjustment. Families who have gone through the process of reintegration following a deployment (and have 5-12 year old children) are eligible to join the study.

In order to understand what parenting resources make a difference for families – we will randomly assign families into two different groups. The first group will receive pamphlets, web links, and other tools for parenting that are currently available. The second group will be invited to take part in a 14-week, web-enhanced parenting program (After Deployment: Adaptive Parenting Tools/ ADAPT).

Both groups will be interviewed four separate times over the course of 2 years. These interviews will help us learn from families directly about what type of parenting support is most helpful for them and their children. Families will be paid $385 to $595 over the course of the study.

Parents in the 14-week parenting program will also receive on-site childcare and homework help for their school-aged children while they attend groups.