Generating Evidence for a Support Package to Stabilize Youth Trajectories Out of Homelessness
NCT ID: NCT03277794
Last Updated: 2021-03-18
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COMPLETED
NA
65 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2017-04-01
2018-12-31
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Detailed Description
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* Transitional Case Management
* Mental Health Interventions: Group, individual, family
* Peer Support This is an intensive, 6-month critical time intervention - one that jointly addresses many points of vulnerability (mental health crises, housing instability, justice involvement) while fostering resilience and connection with resources in employment, education and training domains. It is unique in both content comprehensiveness and integrated process of delivery. Also important was the development of a collaborative and responsive partnering process, to facilitate effective organizational interfaces and seamless service integration so participants can experience a tailored and coherent set of supports. With CAMH, the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Covenant House, LOFT, and SKETCH at the service level and the Wellesley Institute leading evaluation, the investigators have carefully attended to a collective impact framework.
This initiative has proven feasible and is demonstrating good outcomes - with excellent youth engagement, reports of lower social isolation, improved mental health, and engagement with resources, and spin-off benefits of closer collaboration between organizations. The investigators successfully met the target of youth engagement, with a total of 31 youth participating, minimal attrition (n=2), and the investigators observed no indications that HOP-C resulted in risk of any form, both with respect to the intervention itself and the mixed methods research methodology. This promising feasibility work formed the foundation from which the investigators were successful in obtaining a grant from the Local Poverty Reduction Fund to support the study described in this proposal.
Current Project Determine through a randomized trial in Toronto if the positive outcomes the investigators are observing are due solely or primarily to transitional case management and if the additional peer and mental health components are necessary.
Engaging in intensive, tertiary prevention shows clear promise in disrupting a cycle of poverty and marginalization at a critical time - if proven and scaled a key driver of chronic homelessness would be addressed.
Research Questions The objective of this two-part project is to examine the effectiveness and transferability of the Housing Outreach Program-Collaboration (HOP-C) transitional intervention. HOP-C has proven to be feasible with promising outcomes in the Toronto proof-of-concept work currently underway.
1\. Are the benefits of the complex HOP-C intervention with all components in place greater than transitional case management in isolation?
• It is hypothesized that the full model will provide benefit in domains of housing stability, mental health, and quality of life that are significantly greater than case management alone.
The investigators have data in hand from their recent national work in the area which provides data on 'treatment as usual' or the outcomes that attend typically available supports. The proposed trial will unpack benefit and be essential in economic and viability arguments to be made going forward.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Transitional Case Management Only
Participants in this arm will be provided with a transition-focused community support worker who will assist in areas ranging from general support and encouragement to assistance in navigating relevant systems. They will have weekly contacts with participants by phone, informal contact via text and email, and at least twice per month will visit the participant where they are residing. It is expected that all participants will engage a community support worker. The transitional case manager hired into this role will be highly experienced in case management for youth.
Transitional Case Management Only
Participants in this arm will be provided with a transition-focused community support worker who will assist in areas ranging from general support and encouragement to assistance in navigating relevant systems. They will have weekly contacts with participants by phone, informal contact via text and email, and at least twice per month will visit the participant where they are residing. It is expected that all participants will engage a community support worker. The transitional case manager hired into this role will be highly experienced in case management for youth.
Full HOP-C Service
Service provision will be provided by Loft and Covenant House for the transitional case management component, the peer component will be supported through Sketch Arts, and the mental health component will be provided by a post-doctoral fellow clinical psychologist and a mindfulness therapist from the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, supervised by Dr. Sean Kidd.
HOP-C
Service provision will be provided by Loft and Covenant House for the transitional case management component, the peer component will be supported through Sketch Arts, and the mental health component will be provided by a post-doctoral fellow clinical psychologist and a mindfulness therapist from the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, supervised by Dr. Sean Kidd.
Interventions
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HOP-C
Service provision will be provided by Loft and Covenant House for the transitional case management component, the peer component will be supported through Sketch Arts, and the mental health component will be provided by a post-doctoral fellow clinical psychologist and a mindfulness therapist from the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, supervised by Dr. Sean Kidd.
Transitional Case Management Only
Participants in this arm will be provided with a transition-focused community support worker who will assist in areas ranging from general support and encouragement to assistance in navigating relevant systems. They will have weekly contacts with participants by phone, informal contact via text and email, and at least twice per month will visit the participant where they are residing. It is expected that all participants will engage a community support worker. The transitional case manager hired into this role will be highly experienced in case management for youth.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* have obtained secure housing in a time period up to 12 months previously
Exclusion Criteria
16 Years
26 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Sean Kidd
Clinician Scientist
Principal Investigators
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Sean A Kidd, Phd
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Locations
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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Countries
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