Actively Recruiting

Phase Not Applicable
Age: 12Years - 22Years
All Genders
Healthy Volunteers
NCT06574217

Evaluation of Stepping Stones

Led by The Policy & Research Group · Updated on 2026-05-13

650

Participants Needed

1

Research Sites

208 weeks

Total Duration

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Sponsors

T

The Policy & Research Group

Lead Sponsor

D

Department of Health and Human Services

Collaborating Sponsor

AI-Summary

What this Trial Is About

The goal of this randomized trial is to learn if the Stepping Stones (StSt) intervention has a positive impact on the sexual health and relationship behaviors of sexually active youth between the ages of 12 and 22 years old who are at risk for or involved in the legal or child welfare systems. The primary research questions it aims to answer are: * Three months after being offered the intervention, does StSt impact youth's receipt of sexually transmitted infection testing in the past four months? * Nine months after being offered the intervention, does StSt impact youth's frequency of having vaginal and anal sex without condoms in the past four months? * Nine months after being offered the intervention, does StSt impact youth's perpetration of emotional abuse in the past four months? Researchers will compare participants randomized to receive StSt (treatment group) to participants randomized to receive a control condition that contains no sexual or reproductive health information (control group). Participants randomized to the treatment group will be offered StSt as an in-person or virtual, individual-based intervention delivered over four sessions during a 6-8 week period. Participants randomized to the control group will be offered a virtually delivered control condition.

CONDITIONS

Official Title

Evaluation of Stepping Stones

Who Can Participate

Age: 12Years - 22Years
All Genders
Healthy Volunteers

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible

You may qualify if you...

  • At risk for or involved in the legal or child welfare systems
  • Report ever having vaginal and/or anal sex and plan to have sex in the next six months
  • Comfortable reading, speaking, and writing in English
Not Eligible

You will not qualify if you...

  • Currently trying to start a pregnancy
  • Currently in jail or being detained in a facility
  • Enrolled in an ongoing PRG-run TPP study, the No Baby No study, or the Yes & Know study
  • Living in regions where the FLASH curriculum is widely implemented (King County, WA, Ramsey County, MN, Hennepin County, MN)
  • Identified as fraudulent (only for individuals recruited online)

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Trial Site Locations

Total: 1 location

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The Policy & Research Group

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70118

Actively Recruiting

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Research Team

H

Hilary Demby, MPH

CONTACT

K

Kelly Burgess, MPH

CONTACT

How is the study designed?

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Masking

NONE

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Model

PARALLEL

Primary Purpose

PREVENTION

Number of Arms

2

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