Feasibility of a Social-emotional Learning Curriculum in an After-school Program for Youth

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

650 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-10-31

Study Completion Date

2025-03-31

Brief Summary

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The goal of this cluster randomized trial is to:

1\. primary purpose: to determine the feasibility of a novel social-emotional learning curriculum when implemented in the beyond 3:30 after school program; 2a. secondary purpose: to determine whether the novel social-emotional learning curriculum has positive effects youth social emotional learning skills; 2b. secondary purpose: to determine whether the novel social-emotional learning curriculum has positive effects on youth resilience and overall functioning.

Participants:

1. Beyond 3:30 facilitators
2. Youth aged 11-14 who participate in the beyond 3:30 program
3. Parents of youth who participate in the beyond 3:30 program

The main questions this study aims to answer are:

Primary Objectives:

1. Is the novel social-emotional curriculum feasible within the beyond 3:30 after school program?
2. Is the novel social-emotional curriculum acceptable within the beyond 3:30 after school program?
3. Is the novel social-emotional curriculum appropriate within the beyond 3:30 after school program?

Secondary Objectives: Social-emotional learning skills 1. Have youth social-emotional learning skills improved as a result of participating in the novel social-emotional learning curriculum?

Secondary Objectives: Resilience and overall functioning

1. Have youth resilience abilities and overall functioning improved as a result of participating in the novel social-emotional learning program?

Comparator:

Primary objective: Feasibility - There is no comparison group for the feasibility objectives.

Secondary objective: Social-emotional learning skills
* The investigators will compare the intervention arm \[10 sites within the beyond 3:30 program who will implement the EMPOWER social-emotional learning curriculum\] with the usual programming control arm \[10 sites within the beyond 3:30 program who will implement the usual beyond 3:30 program\]

Secondary objective: Resilience and overall functioning

\- The investigators will compare the intervention arm \[10 sites within the beyond 3:30 program who will implement the EMPOWER social-emotional learning curriculum\] with the usual programming control arm \[10 sites within the beyond 3:30 program who will implement the usual beyond 3:30 program\]

Measures:

Primary Objective: Feasibility

After school program staff participants in the intervention arm will be asked to complete:

\- 3 feasibility measures (feasibility, acceptability, appropriateness of intervention) every 4-weeks after each social-emotional module they complete teaching.

\- weekly fidelity checklists to assess feasibility.

Youth participants in the intervention arm will be asked to complete:

\- the intervention appropriateness measure during the post-curriculum data collection time point.

Secondary Objective: Social-emotional learning skills

After school program staff participants in both intervention and usual programming arms will be asked to complete the following measure pre- and post-curriculum implementation:

\- social-emotional learning skills measure for each youth aged 11-14 years in their class.

Youth participants in both intervention and usual programming arms will be asked to complete the following measure pre- and post-curriculum implementation:

\- social-emotional learning skills measure Parents participants whose youth are in the intervention arm will be asked to participate in an interview.

Secondary objective: Resilience and overall functioning

After school program staff participants in both intervention and usual programming arms will be asked to complete the follow measures pre- and post-curriculum implementation:

\- overall functioning measure for each youth aged 11-14 years in their class.

Youth participants in both intervention and usual programming arms will be asked to complete:
* resilience measure

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Detailed Description

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The EMPOWER project is a community-academic partnership between 2 after school programs (beyond 3:30 and Visions of Science) and a mental health teaching hospital (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health). The main objective of this project is to bolster youth mental well-being by developing a novel social-emotional learning curriculum that after school programs can embed into their existing activities.

The curriculum is designed to improve youth's social emotional learning skills through the integration of short social-emotional learning lessons that are embedded into existing programming within an after school program. The curriculum is based on the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning's five core SEL competencies that include self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and decision-making.

The investigators have designed a pilot study to test the feasibility and efficacy of the EMPOWER social-emotional learning curriculum. Beyond 3:30 has 20 sites that are housed in schools across socially and economically vulnerable locations. We will randomize (based on class size and sites who participated in a previous trial of a part of the curriculum) 10 sites to be in the intervention and 10 sites to be in the usual programming control. The intervention arm will implement the 16-week EMPOWER social-emotional learning curriculum, while the usual programming control arm will implement regular beyond 3:30 programming.

Conditions

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Feasibility Studies Efficacy of Intervention Social Emotional Learning

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Usual programming control (implement beyond 3:30 programming as usual)

Groups assigned to the usual programming control arm will deliver regular beyond 3:30 programming.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Social-emotional learning curriculum

The intervention is the EMPOWER social-emotional learning curriculum.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Social-emotional learning curriculum

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

EMPOWER is a 16-week social-emotional learning curriculum that is integrated into the after-school program context.

Interventions

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Social-emotional learning curriculum

EMPOWER is a 16-week social-emotional learning curriculum that is integrated into the after-school program context.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Must be a youth aged 11-14 years attending the beyond 3:30 program
2. Must sign and date the informed consent form
3. Must speak and understand English

1. Must be a facilitator of the beyond 3:30 program
2. Must sign and date the informed consent form
3. Must speak and understand English

1. Must be a caregiver/parent of a youth aged 11-14 years attending the beyond 3:30 program. Caregivers/parents whose children decide not to participate in data collection are still able to participate in an interview post-SEL curriculum implementation.
2. Must sign and date the informed consent form
3. Must speak and understand English

EXCLUSION; None

Minimum Eligible Age

11 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes