Scaling Up Trauma-Informed Outreach with People Affected by Violence - CLOE Intervention

NCT ID: NCT06144216

Last Updated: 2024-11-12

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 400 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-11-21
• Study Completion Date: 2025-12-31

Brief Summary

This mixed methods, community-based study examines the implementation and outcomes of the Community-Led Outreach and Engagement Model (CLOE) for women and youth affected by violence. Outreach services are designed to mitigate the effects of gender-based violence, build trusting relationships with service providers, and improve safety, well-being and engagement with health and social care. Over a 2-year implementation period, we will test how outreach, combined with enhanced service integration, supports participants to identify priority needs and can bridge the gap in accessible and appropriate service with people affected by violence.

Detailed Description

Using community-based participatory research approaches, we implement and test an empirically driven model of outreach with people affected by violence to determine the effectiveness of the model for participants' trust in service providers, safety, and access to appropriate health and social care. The study represents a community-academic partnership between the PI, co-applicants and the Central Okanagan Elizabeth Fry Society (COEFS) and the Welcome Centre Shelter for Women and Families.

There are 4 primary research questions:

1. How effective is the intervention to achieve participant trust in the outreach service program?

2. How effective is the outreach intervention in facilitating participant connection to (a) health services; (b) social services; and (c) legal services?

3. How effective is the outreach intervention in achieving participant safety plans for (a) material, (b) psychological and (c) physical safety?

4. What are the environmental factors that enable or confound the success of the outreach intervention to achieve effectiveness for (a) trust, (b) service connections and (c) safety?

Research Method:

This study is part of a broader program of research utilizing a case-based, intervention study design that employs mixed methods of both quantitative and qualitative data. The outreach intervention consists of 1-1 outreach service provided by trained outreach interventionists to enrolled and consented participants.

Participants will be assigned an outreach interventionist for a one year period. During this time, interventionists and participants will complete a strengths-based assessment to identify participants' current resources and the types of health and social support (e.g., housing, legal, health care access, financial assistance) required. The interventionist and participant will then co-develop a plan to prioritize needs and work collaboratively to address these needs. Plans and progress will be documented by the interventionist in a participant file. Surveys will be conducted at baseline and 4 month intervals by a trained research assistant to measure changes over time in core outcome measures associated with this study (e.g., trust, safety planning, attainment of priority needs). 1-1 qualitative interviews will be conducted at time point 12 months to enable richer understanding of the factors influencing intervention effectiveness.

Conditions

Gender-based Violence; Outreach Intervention

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

CLOE Outreach Intervention

Participants enrolled in CLOE intervention

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

CLOE Outreach Intervention

Intervention Type: OTHER

The CLOE outreach intervention is a community-led, strengths-based, and trauma-informed program to support self-identifying women and youth who experience interpersonal and structural gender-based violence. Outreach services are designed to mitigate the effects of gender-based violence, build trusting relationships with service providers, and improve safety, well-being and engagement with health and social care.

Interventions

CLOE Outreach Intervention

The CLOE outreach intervention is a community-led, strengths-based, and trauma-informed program to support self-identifying women and youth who experience interpersonal and structural gender-based violence. Outreach services are designed to mitigate the effects of gender-based violence, build trusting relationships with service providers, and improve safety, well-being and engagement with health and social care.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• have been referred to community partner organization for services
• able to communicate in English
• age 12-18 (gender inclusive)
• 19 years or older (self-identifying women)

Exclusion Criteria

• Self-identifying men 19 years or older who experience violence will be excluded as the study aims to address gender-based violence with self-identifying women and youth (as per the funded SSHRC grant objectives). Community partner organizations will enable referral for any men to appropriate services.
• People who do not have a referral for service delivery within the two community partner organizations.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Michael Smith Health Research BC

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Windsor

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Dalhousie University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of British Columbia

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Victoria Bungay

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Victoria Bungay, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of British Columbia

Locations

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Countries

Canada

Other Identifiers

H23-02810; H24-01477

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id