Promoting the well-being and best interests of children in separated and divorcing families is a shared value among family court professionals and prevention scientists who develop and evaluate intervention programs. This article chronicles the development, evaluation, and implementation of two programs—the New Beginnings Program (NBP), a parenting intervention for separated/divorcing parents, and the Family Transitions Guide (FTG), an intervention designed to motivate high conflict separated/divorcing parents to attend the NBP. The development and evaluation of these programs was facilitated by a long-standing collaboration with Maricopa Family Court. We discuss the process of developing these programs, their underlying small theories, and the evaluation of their effects in randomized trials. We also describe our collaboration with the family court and ways that the court promoted the development and evaluation of these programs. Finally, we summarize lessons learned and discuss future directions to bolster the public health impact of evidence-based programs for separated/divorcing families.

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与家庭法庭合作制定、评估和实施以育儿为重点的预防计划

促进分居和离婚家庭中儿童的福祉和最大利益是制定和评估干预计划的家庭法庭专业人员和预防科学家的共同价值观。本文记录了两个计划的开发、评估和实施——新起点计划 (NBP)，这是针对分居/离婚父母的育儿干预措施，以及家庭过渡指南 (FTG)，旨在激发高冲突分居/离婚的干预措施父母参加NBP。与马里科帕家庭法院的长期合作促进了这些计划的开发和评估。我们讨论了开发这些程序的过程、它们潜在的小理论，以及它们在随机试验中的效果评估。我们还描述了我们与家庭法院的合作以及法院促进这些项目的发展和评估的方式。最后，我们总结了经验教训并讨论了未来的方向，以加强基于证据的计划对分居/离婚家庭的公共卫生影响。