Evaluating a School-based Social and Material Needs Identification System to Prevent Youth Violence Involvement

NCT05986188 | Active Not Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: R01CE003536
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 111
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the effects of Pathways to Potential (P2P) on youth violence involvement in Michigan public K-12 students. The main goals of this study are:

• This project will link longitudinal P2P participation data to state administrative records and school disciplinary data to evaluate associations between school P2P participation and youth outcomes-specifically chronic absenteeism, peer aggression expulsions, and child maltreatment rates within a school (Aim 1).
• Given the focus of P2P is to improve the social and structural conditions within a school that contribute to student chronic absenteeism, the team will assess if chronic absenteeism rates mediate the relationships between school P2P participation and youth violence involvement (Aim 2).
• Finally, a survey of success coaches will inform the examination of school and implementation factors that moderate associations between P2P participation and youth violence involvement (Aim 3). Schools participating in P2P receive Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) caseworkers, called success coaches, in local elementary, middle, and high schools. After identifying a social or material need that is a barrier to school attendance (e.g., transportation barriers, caregiver unemployment), success coaches connect students and families to community resources and public assistance.

Conditions

Violence, Physical; Maltreatment, Child

Keywords

material needs; social needs; intervention; school-based; school violence

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Peer aggression expulsions

  The state of Michigan requires all public schools to report expulsions for all students to the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), including the incident type(s) which led to the expulsion. Expulsions are instances in which the local educational agency removes a student from their regular school for disciplinary purposes for the remainder of the school year or longer. The investigators will consider expulsions for peer aggression as expulsions which included any of the following: 1) firearm possession-handgun; 2) firearm possession-rifle/shotgun; 3) firearm possession-other firearm; 4) other weapon possession; 5) bomb or similar threat; 6) arson; 7) physical violence with injury, or; 8) physical violence without injury. For each school, the study team will calculate the total number of peer aggression expulsions per school year.

  Peer aggression expulsions will be measured for every academic school year from 2001 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability

• Child maltreatment

  The Michigan Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (MiSACWIS) includes dates of investigations into child maltreatment, names of alleged victims, and date of birth of alleged victims for all child maltreatment investigations in the state of Michigan. Investigators will link the MiSACWIS data to individual student data from MDE that includes information on student name, date of birth, schools of enrollment, and dates of school enrollment enrolled schools. The study team will use this linked dataset to calculate the number of child maltreatment investigations per school per school year.

  Peer aggression expulsions will be measured for every academic school year from 2001 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability

• Chronic absenteeism

  A student is considered chronically absent if they miss 10% or more of school days in which they are enrolled at the school. For each school, the investigators will calculate the total number of students that were chronically absent via the data provided by MDE.

  Chronic absenteeism will measured for every academic school year from 2004 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Firearm-involved expulsions

  Firearm-involved expulsions will be measured for every academic school year from 2001 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability

Study Arms (2)

Implementing Schools

Implementing schools are public K-12 schools in the State of Michigan that participated in the Pathways to Potential program in a given year (from 2012 to 2024).

Other: Pathways to Potential

Non-implementing schools

Non-implementing schools are public K-12 schools in the State of Michigan that DID NOT participate in the Pathways to Potential program in a given year (from 2012 to 2024).

Interventions

Pathways to Potential OTHER

Pathways to Potential stations MDHHS caseworkers, called success coaches, in local elementary, middle, and high schools. After identifying a social or material need that is a barrier to school attendance (e.g., transportation barriers, caregiver unemployment), success coaches connect students and families to community resources and public assistance.

Implementing Schools

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Almost all of the data used for analyses will come from secondary administrative datasets acquired through Data Use Agreements with specific State of Michigan agencies (i.e. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Department of Education). The survey portion of this study will ONLY be administered to Success Coaches over the age of 18 who are actively working inside of a K-12 public school at the time of the collection period.

You may qualify if:

• State of Michigan K-12 public school
• In person instruction
• Open to all students in District/area

You may not qualify if:

• Private schools
• Virtual learning
• Needs-specific schools
• years of age and older
• Working as a Success Coach inside a Michigan K-12 public school during the data collection period
• Former Success Coaches
• Success Coaches not working inside a Michigan K-12 public school during the data collection period

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Michigan: lead
• Wayne State University: collaborator
• The University of Texas at Arlington: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Rebeccah L Sokol, PhD

  University of Michigan

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor, School of Social Work

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 26, 2023
• First Posted: August 14, 2023
• Study Start: February 21, 2024
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): September 30, 2026
• Last Updated: December 19, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF, CSR, ANALYTIC CODE
• Time Frame: The data will become available within a year of the collection completion data (June 2025) and will remain available indefinitely.
• Access Criteria: Researchers will be able to access individual level, anonymized success coach implementation questionnaire data. Can be found through the openICPSR data repository and accessed by creating a free account (https://doi.org/10.3886/E236862V1).

Locations

US (1)