The information in this program outline is provided by the program representative and edited by the CEBC staff. The Project SUPPORT program has been rated by the CEBC in the area of: Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence: Services for Women and their Children.

• Child Welfare Outcomes: Safety and Child/Family Well-Being
• Types of Maltreatment: Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Exposure to Domestic Violence
• Target Population: Families (mothers and children) who had recently sought refuge at domestic violence shelters, with children aged 4-9 exhibiting clinical levels of elevations on externalizing problems (e.g., disruptive, defiant behaviors).

Project SUPPORT was developed to address child conduct problems (i.e., disruptive, oppositional behaviors). Specifically, it was designed for individual families (mother and child(ren)) in which the mother had sought refuge at a woman's shelter because of domestic violence and at least one of her children was exhibiting clinical levels of conduct problems. The intervention includes two main components: providing instrumental and emotional support to the mother during her transition from the women's shelter and teaching the mother to implement a set of child management and nurturing skills that have been shown to be effective in the treatment of clinical levels of conduct problems.