Black Economic Equity Movement

NCT ID: NCT05609188

Last Updated: 2024-12-09

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

300 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-11-01

Study Completion Date

2025-07-30

Brief Summary

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The primary goal is to understand the potential impacts of Guaranteed Income (GI) on Black youth and young adults' financial, emotional, and physical well-being. The main question it aims to answer is: What are the impacts of GI on Black young adults' investments in their future, mental health and unmet mental and sexual/reproductive health service needs? Participants will receive guaranteed income for 12 months and will be offered enrollment in financial capability programs.

Detailed Description

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The BEEM project is a randomized controlled crossover trial in which 300 low-income Black Emerging Adults (BEA) (aged 18-24) are allocated to receive a $500/month Guaranteed Income (GI) either during the first twelve months of follow-up (phase I) or to receive GI in the second 12 months of a total of 24 months follow-up (phase II). All participants will be offered enrollment in financial capability programs (including peer learning circles and individual financial coaching) to bolster GI effectiveness and will also receive a periodic cell phone-based text messages to ensure that BEA with unmet health service needs receive referrals. The investigators hypothesize that this intervention will increase BEA's investment in their future (education, employment training), improve mental health (depression, anxiety), and reduce unmet mental health and sexual/reproductive health service needs.

Conditions

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Mental Health Wellness 1 Health Care Utilization Financial Hardship Education, Professional

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

The BEEM project is a randomized controlled crossover trial in which 300 low-income Black Emerging Adults (BEA) (aged 18-24) are allocated to receive a $500/month Guaranteed Income (GI) either during the first twelve months of follow-up (phase I) or to receive GI in the second 12 months of a total of 24 months follow-up (phase II). Throughout the study all participants will be offered enrollment in financial capability programs (i.e., peer learning circles and financial coaching) to bolster GI effectiveness.
Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors
Masking the study personnel to randomization group is not possible given that staff need to discuss the randomization with participants upon enrollment. Staff responsible for the financial capability services can not be masked to randomization arm as the participants are free to discuss their experience in the program, including whether and when they are receiving payments.

The investigators and the senior biostatistician running the final model will be masked to treatment arm.

Study Groups

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Cash now

Participants allocated to the "cash now" arm will receive a $500/month Guaranteed Income (GI) during the first twelve months of follow-up (Phase 1) and no GI in the second twelve months of follow-up (Phase 2).

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Guaranteed Income

Intervention Type OTHER

Monthly cash transfer of $500 per month for 12 months.

Peer learning circles

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants can opt-in to attend peer learning circles (also called My Money Hour), which are discussion groups of 10-12 participants about financial topics co-led by a peer (Black youth) with experience in financial programming and an adult financial coach. My Money Hour sessions will be offered on-line multiple times throughout every month of the project, with rotating themes, to ensure that the 50-minute sessions are available different days of the week and times of the day.

Financial coaching

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants can opt-in to receive financial coaching sessions with a trained financial mentor. Meetings will occur monthly and typically include six one hour sessions. The mentor will be responsive to individual needs, but will touch on the following priority areas: building credit (credit repair, improving credit scores, credit products); savings (emergency savings plans, savings habits and strategies, understanding savings accounts); money management (creating budgets, understanding income vs expense, assessing spending, making better financial decisions); financial products (credit building products, auto loans, credit cards); and long-term goals (home ownership, investments).

Cash in a year

Participants allocated to the "cash in a year" arm will receive no Guaranteed Income (GI) during the first twelve months of follow-up (Phase 1) but will receive a $500/month GI in the second twelve months of follow-up (Phase 2).

Group Type OTHER

Guaranteed Income

Intervention Type OTHER

Monthly cash transfer of $500 per month for 12 months.

Peer learning circles

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants can opt-in to attend peer learning circles (also called My Money Hour), which are discussion groups of 10-12 participants about financial topics co-led by a peer (Black youth) with experience in financial programming and an adult financial coach. My Money Hour sessions will be offered on-line multiple times throughout every month of the project, with rotating themes, to ensure that the 50-minute sessions are available different days of the week and times of the day.

Financial coaching

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants can opt-in to receive financial coaching sessions with a trained financial mentor. Meetings will occur monthly and typically include six one hour sessions. The mentor will be responsive to individual needs, but will touch on the following priority areas: building credit (credit repair, improving credit scores, credit products); savings (emergency savings plans, savings habits and strategies, understanding savings accounts); money management (creating budgets, understanding income vs expense, assessing spending, making better financial decisions); financial products (credit building products, auto loans, credit cards); and long-term goals (home ownership, investments).

Interventions

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Guaranteed Income

Monthly cash transfer of $500 per month for 12 months.

Intervention Type OTHER

Peer learning circles

Participants can opt-in to attend peer learning circles (also called My Money Hour), which are discussion groups of 10-12 participants about financial topics co-led by a peer (Black youth) with experience in financial programming and an adult financial coach. My Money Hour sessions will be offered on-line multiple times throughout every month of the project, with rotating themes, to ensure that the 50-minute sessions are available different days of the week and times of the day.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Financial coaching

Participants can opt-in to receive financial coaching sessions with a trained financial mentor. Meetings will occur monthly and typically include six one hour sessions. The mentor will be responsive to individual needs, but will touch on the following priority areas: building credit (credit repair, improving credit scores, credit products); savings (emergency savings plans, savings habits and strategies, understanding savings accounts); money management (creating budgets, understanding income vs expense, assessing spending, making better financial decisions); financial products (credit building products, auto loans, credit cards); and long-term goals (home ownership, investments).

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Between 18-24 years of age at enrollment
* Self-Identify as African American or Black
* Live in a low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) qualified census tract (QCT) in San Francisco or Oakland. Youth who are homeless or marginally housed in San Francisco and Oakland are also eligible; those who are marginally housed will need a letter from a youth agency that can affirm their marginal housing status.
* Must not be currently enrolled in another GI project
* Must have lived in the US for at least 3 years.
* Must provide informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

* Participation in another GI program at the time of enrollment
* Lived in the United States for less than 3 years
* Have plans to permanently leave the Bay Area
* Being under the influence of alcohol or other substances at the time of enrollment.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

24 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Oregon Health and Science University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

MyPath

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of California, San Francisco

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Sheri A Lippman, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of California, San Francisco

Marguerita Lightfoot, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Oregon Health & Science University-Portland State University School of Public Health

Margaret Libby, MSW

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

MyPath

Locations

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University of California San Francisco

San Francisco, California, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Lippman SA, Libby MK, Nakphong MK, Arons A, Balanoff M, Mocello AR, Arnold EA, Shade SB, Qurashi F, Downing A, Moore A, Dow WH, Lightfoot MA. A guaranteed income intervention to improve the health and financial well-being of low-income black emerging adults: study protocol for the Black Economic Equity Movement randomized controlled crossover trial. Front Public Health. 2023 Nov 3;11:1271194. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1271194. eCollection 2023.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 38026401 (View on PubMed)

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Other Identifiers

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1U01OD033266-01

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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1U01OD033266-01

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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