NCT01947452

Brief Summary

Chicago's Department of Family and Support Services will be providing summer employment and social-emotional skill training to youth over the summer of 2012. The investigators are partnering with them to evaluate the effects of the program. The investigators will track applicants to the program through existing administrative databases to assess the short- and long-term effects of the government's program. The investigators hypothesize that the program will decrease violence involvement and criminal activity, increase schooling engagement, and increase future employment outcomes.

Trial Health

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Trial Health Score

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Enrollment
1,634

participants targeted

Target at P75+ for phase_1

Timeline
Completed

Started Jun 2012

Longer than P75 for phase_1

Geographic Reach
1 country

1 active site

Status
unknown

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Trial Relationships

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Study Timeline

Key milestones and dates

Study Start

First participant enrolled

June 1, 2012

Completed
3 months until next milestone

First Submitted

Initial submission to the registry

August 17, 2012

Completed
1.1 years until next milestone

First Posted

Study publicly available on registry

September 20, 2013

Completed
2.7 years until next milestone

Primary Completion

Last participant's last visit for primary outcome

June 1, 2016

Completed
2.5 years until next milestone

Study Completion

Last participant's last visit for all outcomes

December 1, 2018

Completed
Last Updated

October 26, 2017

Status Verified

August 1, 2016

Enrollment Period

4 years

First QC Date

August 17, 2012

Last Update Submit

October 25, 2017

Conditions

Reduce Violence and CrimeIncrease School EngagementIncrease Future Labor Market Outcomes

Keywords

Youth violence reductionYouth crime reductionSchool engagementEmploymentSocial-emotional learning

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (5)

  • Criminal activity

    The number of each of four subtypes of arrests (violent, property, drug, and other) will be measured using individual-level administrative data on juvenile and adult arrests from the Chicago Policy Department.

    Program start through end of program (8 weeks)

  • Criminal activity

    The number of each of four subtypes of arrests (violent, property, drug, and other) will be measured using individual-level administrative data on juvenile and adult arrests from the Chicago Policy Department.

    6 months post-program

  • Criminal activity

    The number of each of four subtypes of arrests (violent, property, drug, and other) will be measured using individual-level administrative data on juvenile and adult arrests from the Chicago Policy Department.

    1 year post-program

  • Criminal activity

    The number of each of four subtypes of arrests (violent, property, drug, and other) will be measured using individual-level administrative data on juvenile and adult arrests from the Chicago Policy Department.

    18 months post-program

  • Criminal activity

    The number of each of four subtypes of arrests (violent, property, drug, and other) will be measured using individual-level administrative data on juvenile and adult arrests from the Chicago Policy Department.

    2 years post-program

Secondary Outcomes (13)

  • School engagement

    6 months after program start (Dec 2013)

  • School engagement

    1 year post-program start (June 2014)

  • School engagement

    18 months post-program start (Dec 2014)

  • School engagement

    2 years post-program start (June 2014)

  • Employment

    6 months post-program start

  • +8 more secondary outcomes

Study Arms (2)

Jobs Only

EXPERIMENTAL

Youth will be offered a 5-hour per day, 5-day per week employment opportunity over 7 weeks. They will be paid the Illinois minimum wage of $8.25 per hour.

Behavioral: Employment

Jobs plus Social-Emotional Learning

EXPERIMENTAL

Youth will be offered a 3-hour per day, 5-day per week employment opportunity over 7 weeks. They will also be offered 2-hour per day, 5-day per week social-emotional learning programming, for which they will be paid the same hourly wage as their job ($8.25/hour).

Behavioral: EmploymentBehavioral: Social-Emotional Learning

Interventions

EmploymentBEHAVIORAL

Community organizations will place youth in summer jobs based on youth interests and the availability of positions. Jobs will be part-time in non-profit and government organizations. Youth will be paid the IL minimum wage of $8.25 per hour. The community organizations will provide job mentors to assist youth with barriers to work like transportation or clothing, and to provide supervision at the job site.

Jobs OnlyJobs plus Social-Emotional Learning
Social-Emotional LearningBEHAVIORAL

Community organizations will provide 2 hours of social-emotional learning programming for 5 hours a day. The programming is based on cognitive behavioral therapy principles designed to help youth learn to understand and manage their emotions and behavior. It seeks to teach: self awareness (recognizing one's emotions and values as well as one's strengths and limitations), self management (managing emotions and behaviors to achieve one's goals), social awareness (showing understanding and empathy for others), relationship skills (forming positive relationships, working in teams, and dealing effectively with conflict), and responsible decision-making (making ethical, constructive choices about personal and social behavior).

Jobs plus Social-Emotional Learning

Eligibility Criteria

Age14 Years - 21 Years
Sexall
Healthy VolunteersNo
Age GroupsChild (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

  • Currently enrolled in one of 13 target high schools in Chicago, or
  • Expecting to enroll in one of 13 target high schools for fall 2012
  • Between ages 14 and 21 at program start

You may not qualify if:

  • None

Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Sites (1)

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States

Location

Related Publications (13)

  • Bellotti J, Rosenberg L, Sattar S, Esposito AM, Ziegler J. Reinvesting in America's Youth: Lessons from the 2009 Recovery Act Summer Youth Employment Initiative. Mathematica Policy Research. Washington, D.C., 2010.

    BACKGROUND

  • Bloom D, Gardenire-Crooks A, Mandsager C. Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the National Guard ChalleNGe Program evaluation. MDRC report, 2009.

    BACKGROUND

  • Center for Labor Market Studies. The Depression in the Teen Labor Market in Illinois in Recent Years. Report, 2012.

    BACKGROUND

  • Fernandes-Alcantara, AL. Vulnerable Youth: Federal Funding for Summer Job Training and Employment. Congressional Research Service Report, 2011.

    BACKGROUND

  • Gould, ED, Weinberg BA, Mustard DB. Crime rates and local labor market opportunities in the United States: 1979-1997. The Review of Economics and Statistics 84(1): 45-61, 2002.

    BACKGROUND

  • Grogger, J. Market Wages and Youth Crime. Journal of Labor Economics 16(4), 756-791, 1998.

    BACKGROUND

  • Hamilton, G. Moving People from Welfare to Work: Lessons from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies. MDRC Report, 2002.

    BACKGROUND

  • Heller S, Jacob BA, Ludwig J. Family Income, Neighborhood Poverty, and Crime. In Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs, Eds. Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig and Justin McCrary. National Bureau of Economic Conference Report, University of Chicago Press, 2011.

    BACKGROUND

  • Hill, PL, Roberts BW, Grogger JT, Guryan J, Sixkiller K. Decreasing Delinquency, Criminal Behavior, and Recidivism by Intervening on Psychological Factors Other Than Cognitive Ability: A Review of the Intervention Literature. In Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs,Eds. Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig and Justin McCrary. National Bureau of Economic Conference Report, University of Chicago Press: 367-406, 2011.

    BACKGROUND

  • Redcross C, Bloom D, Azurdia G, Zweig J, Pindus N. Implementation, Two-Year Impacts, and Costs of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program. MDRC Report, 2009.

    BACKGROUND

  • Ruhm, C. Is High School Employment Consumption or Investment? Journal of Labor Economics 15(4): 735-776, 1997.

    BACKGROUND

  • Schochet P, Burghardt J, McConnel S. Does Job Corps work? Impact findings from the National Job Corps Study. American Economic Review 98(5): 1864-86, 2008.

    BACKGROUND

  • Heller S, Pollack H, Ander R, Ludwig J. Improving Social-Cognitive Skills among Disadvantaged Youth: A Randomized Field Experiment. University of Chicago Working Paper, 2011.

    BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Employment

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Socioeconomic FactorsPopulation Characteristics

Study Officials

  • Harold Pollack, PhD

    University of Chicago

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

  • Sara Heller, MPP

    University of Chicago

    STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

Study Type
interventional
Phase
phase 1
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Purpose
PREVENTION
Intervention Model
PARALLEL
Sponsor Type
OTHER
Responsible Party
SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

First Submitted

August 17, 2012

First Posted

September 20, 2013

Study Start

June 1, 2012

Primary Completion

June 1, 2016

Study Completion

December 1, 2018

Last Updated

October 26, 2017

Record last verified: 2016-08

Locations

US(1)