Preventing Youth Violence Through Building Equitable Communities

Part of paid clinical trials in Mobile, Alabama.

Sponsor
University of South Alabama
Study ID
NCT05639426
Status
Enrolling By Invitation

Conditions

  • Suicide
  • Violence in Adolescence

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
10 Years - 99 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • Culturally Responsive Practices (CRP) — BEHAVIORAL
    The CRP component of the intervention targets pedagogy, curriculum, and potential teacher biases and discriminatory behavior. This component will consist of two intensive 4-hour workshops delivered by Morton and Billingsley in each school's first intervention year as well as one-hour annual boosters (Backpacks for Success and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy). All teachers and school administrators will participate in the workshops. The purpose of Backpacks for Success is to increase participants' awareness of structural racism, empathy for students, and motivation to change, while identifying equity targets and strategies to reach those targets. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy comprises classroom based strategies to promote equity, including use of culturally responsive curriculum, language, attitudes, and actions, with the goal of reducing interpersonal and cultural racism. Ongoing group coaching sessions will provide a space for peer support and learning around increasing CRP.
  • Culturally-Responsive Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (C-SWPBS) — BEHAVIORAL
    We will implement SWPBS according to the equity-focused framework established by the Center on PBIS, with an increased emphasis on community integration. SWPBS involves creating a school team of 6-10 people, including at least one administrator, teachers, and staff members. We will include at least three community stakeholders on each C-SWPBS team to integrate the culture of the community, reducing institutional and cultural racism. Community stakeholders may be parents or other invested members of the local community not employed by the school district. The school climate specialists serve on the C-SWPBS team and provide consultation for the management of violence incidents and mental health concerns.

Study Details

Interpersonal or community violence is a long-standing health disparity that disproportionately affects African American youth, and suicide is disproportionately increasing among African American youth. This project evaluates the impact of a multisystemic prevention program designed to reduce health disparities in violence by promoting equity in African American youths' experiences in education systems. This intervention has the potential to reduce morbidity and mortality among African American youth, promote overall quality of life, and reduce the societal costs associated with both interpersonal violence and suicidality.

Key Dates

Start date
Sep 28, 2022
Status verified
Apr 2026
Primary completion
Jan 31, 2027
Completion
May 15, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment
1,672 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION

Arms

  • Experimental: Strengthening Opportunities for Achievement and Resilience
    Strengthening Opportunities for Achievement and Resilience (SOAR) is an intervention condition consisting of both Culturally-Responsive Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (C-SWPBS) and Culturally Responsive Practices (CRP). It is a year-long, school-level intervention.

Primary Outcome Measure

Change in youth self-reported interpersonal violence perpetration [ Time Frame: Trajectories of change will be assessed through data collected every three months from August to May (the school year) over the course of five years (through study completion) ]

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
University of South AlabamaMobileAlabama36688-

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