This project represented a change in scope from the currently-funded R01, which sought to examine the long-term crossover effects of the Family Check-Up (FCU) on depression and suicide risk using Integrative Data Analysis across three randomized trials. These randomized trials included a large sample of children and families who had received the FCU in early childhood and middle school. At that time, the FCU had been delivered as an in-person model and had been adapted for both school and home delivery. Since then, the FCU had been adapted to an online version, which had been effective with middle school youth in enhancing parenting self-efficacy and reducing child emotional problems (Stormshak et al., 2019).

Given the wide-ranging negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on parent and child functioning, there had been an urgent need for effective family-focused prevention/intervention programming that could employ telehealth delivery formats to reach families during the current pandemic and future public health crises of similar scale.

The administrative supplement adapted and tested the efficacy of the Family Check-Up Online as a treatment to foster resilient family functioning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.