Participants in the SAAF trial included 641 African American families in rural Georgia. From each family, a youth who was 11 years old when recruited (58% girls) and the youth’s primary caregiver, typically the biological mother, provided data. At the first data collection session, youths’ mean age was 11.21 years (SD = .41) and caregivers’ mean age was 37.7 years (SD = 7.62). Mean household gross monthly income was $2,109 (SD = $1,443) and mean per capita gross monthly income was $509 (SD = $411). Although 74% of the mothers were employed outside the home and worked an average of 39.7 hours per week, 41% of the families lived below federal poverty standards and another 26% lived within 150% of the poverty threshold; they could be described as working poor (14).
