Transitioning Youth Out of Homelessness 2.5 (TYOH 2.5)

NCT ID: NCT06425458

Last Updated: 2025-09-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 25 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-06-11
• Study Completion Date: 2024-08-09

Brief Summary

The idea for this study came from the research team's current study called Transitioning Youth Out of Homelessness (TYOH) 2.0, which provides coaching and a leadership guide to youth transitioning out of homelessness. Based on feedback from youth and coaches involved in that study, the research team plans to make small changes to the leadership guide and see if it works better as an in-person, four-week leadership program.

All participants in this study will be invited to attend an in-person, four-week leadership program. There will be two programs running at the same time: one in St. Catharines and one in Toronto. The goal is to have 15 participants in each program.

The main purpose of the study is to learn what participants think of the program. The second purpose is to see if there are changes in identity capital (feeling a sense of purpose and confidence in achieving goals) and knowledge about things that are covered in the program, when the research team compares participants' answers at the beginning and at the end of the program.

Detailed Description

This project builds on the research team's current community-based randomized clinical trial (Transitioning Youth Out of Homelessness 2.0) utilizing coaching and a co-designed leadership guide to target identity capital (purpose, control, self-efficacy, and self-esteem) for youth transitioning out of homelessness (all participants are also receiving rent subsidies). Based on preliminary feedback from study youth and coaches involved in the intervention arm, the research team will modify the leadership guide and pilot it in the form of an in-person, four-week leadership program (vs. independent learning in the current study).

The overarching objective of this mixed methods pilot project is to co-develop and test a strengths-based leadership program targeting identity capital for youth (16-24 years of age) transitioning out of homelessness. Specifically, the objectives are to:

1. Modify the leadership guide being used in the research team's current study so it can be delivered as an in-person leadership program.

2. Co-develop and pilot a four-week, strengths-based leadership program for young people transitioning out of homelessness.

3. Determine the feasibility and acceptability of the leadership guide when delivered as a four-week, in-person program (as opposed to independent learning in the current study).

4. Examine whether self-reported measures of identity capital and knowledge of program material show improvement immediately post-program compared to baseline.

5. Explore whether there are differences in outcomes by sub-groups (e.g., gender, age, identification as 2SLGBTQ+, child welfare involvement) and/or program participation levels.

If this modified delivery of the leadership guide shows promise, the research team plans to incorporate it into a national scale-up alongside rent subsidies and coaching.

Conditions

Homelessness; Youth

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Co-Designed Strengths-Based Leadership Program

Young people transitioning out of homelessness will attend a four-week, strengths-based leadership program.

Two four-week leadership programs (15 youth per program) will be led by coaches from the research team's current TYOH 2.0 study with youth advisors participating as paid leadership interns.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Co-Designed Strengths-Based Leadership Program

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Please see arm description.

Interventions

Co-Designed Strengths-Based Leadership Program

Please see arm description.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

This age mandate was chosen because this is the age group served by the community partners. The research team has chosen to target the first year of exiting homelessness because collective experience has shown that this can be a particularly precarious time for youth in terms of mental health challenges and risk of (re)experiencing homelessness (even if youth have attempted exits in the past).

• Be able to provide free and informed consent.
• Be able to understand English (leadership program and data collection will be conducted in English).
• Have experienced homelessness (e.g., unstable housing arrangements including shelter stays, foster care, and couch surfing) for 3 consecutive months in the past 12 months.
• Be able to consistently attend the four-week leadership program.

Exclusion Criteria

• Enrolled in a program or study with similar features to the TYOH 2.5 leadership program.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 16 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 24 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Covenant House Toronto

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

StepStones for Youth

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Resource Association for Teens

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Unity Health Toronto

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Unity Health Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Countries

Canada

References

Côté, J. (2016). The identity capital model: A handbook of theory, methods, and findings.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Related Links

https://sociology.uwo.ca/research/research-areas/power-and-justice/Cote_ICM_Handbook_2016.pdf

Describes the Multi-Measure Agentic Personality Scale (MAPS20), which is being utilized in the current study.

Other Identifiers

24-072

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id