Clinical trial NCT05986188: Evaluating a School-based Social and Material Needs Identification System to Prevent Youth Violence Involvement
Official title: Evaluating a School-based Social and Material Needs Identification System to Prevent Youth Violence Involvement
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Conditions: Violence, Physical
Maltreatment, Child
Keywords: material needs
social needs
intervention
school-based
school violence
Lead sponsor: University of Michigan
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Wayne State University
name: The University of Texas at Arlington
First posted: 2023-08-14
Enrollment: 400
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Almost all of the data used for analyses will come from secondary administrative datasets acquired through Data Use Agreements with specific State of Michigan agencies (i.e. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Department of Education).

The survey portion of this study will ONLY be administered to Success Coaches over the age of 18 who are actively working inside of a K-12 public school at the time of the collection period.

Brief summary: The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the effects of Pathways to Potential (P2P) on youth violence involvement in Michigan public K-12 students. The main goals of this study are:

* This project will link longitudinal P2P participation data to state administrative records and school disciplinary data to evaluate associations between school P2P participation and youth outcomes-specifically chronic absenteeism, peer aggression expulsions, and child maltreatment rates within a school (Aim 1).
* Given the focus of P2P is to improve the social and structural conditions within a school that contribute to student chronic absenteeism, the team will assess if chronic absenteeism rates mediate the relationships between school P2P participation and youth violence involvement (Aim 2).
* Finally, a survey of success coaches will inform the examination of school and implementation factors that moderate associations between P2P participation and youth violence involvement (Aim 3).

Schools participating in P2P receive Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) caseworkers, called success coaches, in local elementary, middle, and high schools. After identifying a social or material need that is a barrier to school attendance (e.g., transportation barriers, caregiver unemployment), success coaches connect students and families to community resources and public assistance.


Eligibility criteria: Administrative Data Inclusion Criteria:

* State of Michigan K-12 public school
* In person instruction
* Open to all students in District/area

Administrative Data Exclusion Criteria:

* Private schools
* Virtual learning
* Needs-specific schools

Survey Inclusion Criteria:

* 18 years of age and older
* Working as a Success Coach inside a Michigan K-12 public school during the data collection period

Survey Exclusion Criteria:

* Former Success Coaches
* Success Coaches not working inside a Michigan K-12 public school during the data collection period

Primary outcomes:
measure: Peer aggression expulsions
timeFrame: Peer aggression expulsions will be measured for every academic school year from 2001 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability
measure: Child maltreatment
timeFrame: Peer aggression expulsions will be measured for every academic school year from 2001 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability
measure: Chronic absenteeism
timeFrame: Chronic absenteeism will measured for every academic school year from 2004 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Firearm-involved expulsions
timeFrame: Firearm-involved expulsions will be measured for every academic school year from 2001 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ann Arbor
country: United States
facility: University of Michigan
state: Michigan
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Michigan
name: Rebeccah L Sokol, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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