Advocate

• Serve as the primary liaison among participating youth, parents and caregivers, facilitators, and community-based implementation sites in Bayamón and Ponce
• Lead the common parent-engagement foundation for caregivers in both study conditions
• Implement Survival Skills for Healthy Families (SSHF) with caregivers assigned to the enhanced condition
• Support family engagement, referrals, and evaluator-directed procedures
• Organize caregiver cohorts of approximately 20–25 participants
• Prepare materials and facilitate the approved eight-session Family Wellness: Survival Skills for Healthy Families component and make-up opportunities
• Monitor the operational completion benchmark of at least six of eight sessions
• Maintain separate, accurate attendance, dosage, session, and fidelity records for the common foundation and SSHF
• Report parent-component fidelity information and implementation concerns to the Project Director and participate in approved corrective actions
• Support evaluator-directed recruitment, enrollment, retention, tracking, and follow-up procedures
• Identify participation barriers and maintain an updated network of qualified community-based services and resources
• Establish referral relationships, coordinate allowable family referrals, and document caregiver contacts and referral follow-through
• Use approved consent and assent supports and evaluator-approved study explanations
• Protect privacy and confidentiality and maintain separation between enhanced and active comparison conditions
• Ensure active-comparison caregivers do not receive SSHF
• Refer questions about eligibility, assignment, or research participation to the independent evaluation team

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