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YES: Innovative Discussion for Engagement, Achievement, and Service
Led by University of Michigan · Updated on 2026-02-17
512
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
243 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
U
University of Michigan
Lead Sponsor
N
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of YES-IDEAS (YES: Innovative Discussion for Engagement, Achievement, and Service)compared to regular after school programming in increasing youth empowerment, promoting positive behaviors, and decreasing youth violence. Through the evidence-based YES (Youth Empowerment Solutions) program, youth design and implement projects to help improve their communities. In the current study, investigators adapted the existing YES curriculum to empower youth from diverse backgrounds to reduce violent behavior. The adapted curriculum, YES-IDEAS, focus on middle school students. The investigators test the effects of YES-IDEAS curriculum on youths' sense of empowerment, attitudes, and violent behavior. They designed the study to be a group-randomized trial in after-school programs across multiple middle schools in south-east Michigan, but issues that arose due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other practical issues with the schools we modified the design to be a matched control group design at the school level. Matching variables included size, geographic locations, race/ethnicity, free/reduced lunch status. Dose-response and sustainability of YES-IDEAS effects are also examined.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
YES: Innovative Discussion for Engagement, Achievement, and Service
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Students enrolled in afterschool programs at multiple middle schools in Counties across south-east Michigan
- Students in 6th through 8th grade
- Students who assent
You will not qualify if you...
- Non-students
- Students who do not assent or whose parents notify us of their refusal
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
M
Marc A Zimmerman, PhD
CONTACT
K
Katherine T Taelman, MAT, MPH
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
PREVENTION
Number of Arms
2
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