Harriet Lane Healthy Futures Program

NCT ID: NCT01575457

Last Updated: 2015-04-07

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 202 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2009-06-30
• Study Completion Date: 2014-12-31

Brief Summary

The purpose of the Harriet Lane Clinic Healthy Futures Program is to increase academic or workforce development success among adolescents and young adults. To this end, the Healthy Futures educational intervention includes motivational interviewing and knowledge and skill building activities that will focus on improving educational, vocational, health, and self sufficiency outcomes for youth who attend the Harriet Lane Clinic. Goals of this youth development project include determining what factors are associated with school engagement, parental academic involvement, and future planning.

Detailed Description

This is a feasibility study to examine if an intervention in a primary care setting can recruit and retain adolescents and young adults and influence future planning behaviors.

We will address the following research Aims:

1. To assess the feasibility of a career development program provided to low income adolescents and young adults in a pediatric primary care setting.

2. To assess the receptiveness of adolescents and young adults in pediatric primary care setting to future planning interventions.

3. To assess the impact of a career development program in improving educational, workforce, and health attitudes and outcomes for adolescents and young adults.

The Healthy Futures Program is an interactive, multi-session training program. There will be participants in 3 different intervention tracks (College/vocational school, Job, and Career Planning). Tracks are assigned to participants based on interest and age. During the screening process, participants who are 16 years old or older will be asked if they are interested in participating in a program designed to help them apply to college or job training services. Based on their preference, they will be assigned a college or job track. Participants who are 14 and 15 years old will automatically be assigned to the career planning track.

Conditions

Youth Coaching; Future Planning

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Intervention

The Healthy Futures Program is an interactive, multi-session training program. The intervention participants will participate in College/vocational school, Job, and Career Planning activities with a career coach.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Career Counseling and Motivational Interviewing

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The Healthy Futures Program is an interactive, multi-session training program. There will be participants in 3 different intervention tracks (College/vocational school, Job, and Career Planning). Activities for all three tracks will occur simultaneously. The intervention group will receive the interactive, multi-session training program including newsletters and workshops. Comparison group participants will receive newsletters and be invited to participate in college and career planning workshops.

Comparison

The Healthy Futures Program is an interactive, multi-session training program. The comparison group participants will receive newsletters and be invited to participate in college and career planning workshops.

Group Type: OTHER

Career Counseling and Motivational Interviewing

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The Healthy Futures Program is an interactive, multi-session training program. There will be participants in 3 different intervention tracks (College/vocational school, Job, and Career Planning). Activities for all three tracks will occur simultaneously. The intervention group will receive the interactive, multi-session training program including newsletters and workshops. Comparison group participants will receive newsletters and be invited to participate in college and career planning workshops.

Interventions

Career Counseling and Motivational Interviewing

The Healthy Futures Program is an interactive, multi-session training program. There will be participants in 3 different intervention tracks (College/vocational school, Job, and Career Planning). Activities for all three tracks will occur simultaneously. The intervention group will receive the interactive, multi-session training program including newsletters and workshops. Comparison group participants will receive newsletters and be invited to participate in college and career planning workshops.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

motivational interviewing; coaching

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• The population of interest for this randomized feasibility study are all main-stream (currently or previously enrolled) Baltimore City Public High School 14 to 21 year old attending the Harriet Lane Clinic.

Exclusion Criteria

• Any student who is currently in a self-contained special education classroom at anytime during the school day will not be invited to participate in the study.
• Students with learning disabilities or physical disabilities that limit their ability to work or read printed materials without assistance will be excluded from the study.
• Lastly, anyone who is not interested in participating in a future planning intervention program will be excluded from the study population.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 14 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 21 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Johns Hopkins University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Tina L. Cheng

Division Chief, General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Harriet Lane Clinic

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

00017226

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id