Harriet Lane Healthy Futures Program (HF)

The Harriet Lane Clinic Healthy Futures Program is to Increase Academic or Workforce Development Success Among Adolescents and Young Adults

The purpose of the Harriet Lane Clinic Healthy Futures Program is to increase academic or workforce development success among adolescents and young adults. To this end, the Healthy Futures educational intervention includes motivational interviewing and knowledge and skill building activities that will focus on improving educational, vocational, health, and self sufficiency outcomes for youth who attend the Harriet Lane Clinic. Goals of this youth development project include determining what factors are associated with school engagement, parental academic involvement, and future planning.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Youth Coaching; Future Planning
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Career Counseling and Motivational Interviewing

Detailed Description

This is a feasibility study to examine if an intervention in a primary care setting can recruit and retain adolescents and young adults and influence future planning behaviors.

We will address the following research Aims:

1. To assess the feasibility of a career development program provided to low income adolescents and young adults in a pediatric primary care setting.
2. To assess the receptiveness of adolescents and young adults in pediatric primary care setting to future planning interventions.
3. To assess the impact of a career development program in improving educational, workforce, and health attitudes and outcomes for adolescents and young adults.

The Healthy Futures Program is an interactive, multi-session training program. There will be participants in 3 different intervention tracks (College/vocational school, Job, and Career Planning). Tracks are assigned to participants based on interest and age. During the screening process, participants who are 16 years old or older will be asked if they are interested in participating in a program designed to help them apply to college or job training services. Based on their preference, they will be assigned a college or job track. Participants who are 14 and 15 years old will automatically be assigned to the career planning track.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 202
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Maryland
    • Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287
      • Harriet Lane Clinic

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years to 21 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• The population of interest for this randomized feasibility study are all main-stream (currently or previously enrolled) Baltimore City Public High School 14 to 21 year old attending the Harriet Lane Clinic.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any student who is currently in a self-contained special education classroom at anytime during the school day will not be invited to participate in the study.
• Students with learning disabilities or physical disabilities that limit their ability to work or read printed materials without assistance will be excluded from the study.
• Lastly, anyone who is not interested in participating in a future planning intervention program will be excluded from the study population.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention; The Healthy Futures Program is an interactive, multi-session training program. The intervention participants will participate in College/vocational school, Job, and Career Planning activities with a career coach.	Behavioral: Career Counseling and Motivational Interviewing; The Healthy Futures Program is an interactive, multi-session training program. There will be participants in 3 different intervention tracks (College/vocational school, Job, and Career Planning). Activities for all three tracks will occur simultaneously. The intervention group will receive the interactive, multi-session training program including newsletters and workshops. Comparison group participants will receive newsletters and be invited to participate in college and career planning workshops.; Other Names: motivational interviewing; coaching
Other: Comparison; The Healthy Futures Program is an interactive, multi-session training program. The comparison group participants will receive newsletters and be invited to participate in college and career planning workshops.	Behavioral: Career Counseling and Motivational Interviewing; The Healthy Futures Program is an interactive, multi-session training program. There will be participants in 3 different intervention tracks (College/vocational school, Job, and Career Planning). Activities for all three tracks will occur simultaneously. The intervention group will receive the interactive, multi-session training program including newsletters and workshops. Comparison group participants will receive newsletters and be invited to participate in college and career planning workshops.; Other Names: motivational interviewing; coaching

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of Fights in last 30 days	Participants are assessed for fighting behavior 3times (at Baseline, 6months after baseline and 15 months after baseline)	6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Marijuana use in last 30 days	Participants are assessed for fighting behavior 3times (at Baseline, 6months after baseline and 15 months after baseline)	6 mo
Career maturity index	Participants are assessed for fighting behavior 3times (at Baseline, 6months after baseline and 15 months after baseline)	6 mo

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University
• Collaborators: Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: June 1, 2009
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 1, 2013
• Study Completion (Actual): December 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 8, 2012
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 10, 2012
• First Posted (Estimate): April 11, 2012

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): April 7, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 5, 2015
• Last Verified: April 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Adolescent Violence Prevention
• Other Study ID Numbers: 00017226