Helping Youth on the Path to Employment

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  • participants needed
    150
  • sponsor
    University of Massachusetts, Worcester
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Updated on 19 February 2024
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anxiety disorders

Summary

Helping Youth on the Path to Employment (HYPE): Creating economic self-sufficiency, a randomized-controlled implementation efficacy hybrid trial, will test a manualized intervention combining educational and employment supports for young adults with mental health conditions.

Description

Previous controlled trials in mature adult subjects has consistently demonstrated that Supported Employment interventions (i.e., Individual Placement and Supports) elicit benefit for those with mental health conditions in getting and keeping productive work. Similarly, previous research demonstrates that Supported Education has efficacy in helping young adults with mental health conditions in their academics. However, to date, no evidence-based practice exists which combines both supported education and supported employment interventions into a single model that has efficacy and utility for young adults with serious mental health conditions. Supported Education has been fruitful for navigating academics, but hasn't demonstrated efficacy for supporting young adults with their careers, and Supported Employment programs, like IPS, have shown poor efficacy for helping young adults, as it was designed to assist mature adults. Therefore, the HYPE Model will become the first evidence-informed intervention to combine Supported Employment and Supported Education paradigms in an effort to help young adults with mental health conditions successfully navigate college so they can move into a primary labor market career and attain economic self-sufficiency.

Details
Condition Mental Impairment, Educational Problems
Age 18years - 30years
Treatment Weekly Meetings with a Supported Employment/Supported Education Specialist, Focused Skill and Strategy Training (FSST), Enhanced Services as Usual
Clinical Study IdentifierNCT04254562
SponsorUniversity of Massachusetts, Worcester
Last Modified on19 February 2024

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Inclusion Criteria

be between 18-30 years of age
able to speak and read English fluently
cognitively capable of providing informed consent and participating in study activities
enrolled in a minimum of six credits at a campus-based accredited college (two year or four-year programs)
intending to enroll in a minimum of four semesters of college courses with the expectation of being continuously enrolled
have had at least one prior academic disruption during a college academic semester - (e.g., withdrawal from postsecondary institutions; academic probation; not meeting satisfactory academic progress; or a prior leave of absence) prior to study enrollment
currently have a diagnosed mental health condition by a licensed mental health provider under the DSM-V Axis 1 diagnoses (schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, eating disorders, attention deficits and disruptive behavior disorders) or have been deemed eligible for ADA protections due to a disabling mental health condition - (e.g., receiving state vocational agency services, SSI/DI benefits, or postsecondary accommodations)

Exclusion Criteria

have received or are receiving supports consistent with HYPE in the past year
have had no impact to academic success in college (i.e. disruption)
have a secondary autism spectrum disorder, traumatic brain injury, or other neurodevelopmental or neurocognitive disorder affecting cognition
are currently incarcerated prisoners
are unable to speak or read English fluently
are under age 18 or require a legal guardian to provide informed consent
lack the cognitive capability to provide informed consent on their own
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