Future Leaders Program: Testing a Youth Leadership, Engagement, and Mindfulness Program
Can A Youth Leadership and Mindfulness Program Support Well-being for Youth of Color?
Boston University Charles River Campus
504 participants
Dec 16, 2024
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The current study tests the feasibility and effectiveness of a youth intervention designed to provide meaningful leadership opportunities through the acquisition of leadership skills as well as mindfulness practice, LEAP: Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness. The goal of this project is to determine whether the Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness (LEAP) curriculum, which was developed with youth, is a feasible and effective intervention for fostering leadership and well-being. The investigators seek to understand whether LEAP can support wellbeing for youth as a strategy to increase youth mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) health.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria3
- Adolescents ages 14 and older in grades 9-12 during the Fall/Winter or in grades 9-11 during the Spring
- Enrolled in a partner site in Massachusetts or Illinois
- Adolescents are only included with parent consent and youth assent if they are under the age of 18. Adolescents at least 18 years old can provide consent.
Exclusion Criteria4
- They participated in the pilot phase (UG3)
- They cannot commit to participation in the full study (e.g., attendance at all intervention sessions)
- They are not in grades 9-12 at a partner site
- Parent/guardian has a preferred consent language other than English or Spanish.
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Interventions
The Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness intervention (LEAP) was designed and co-created with youth to improve youth well-being by enhancing leadership opportunities and by developing mindfulness in day-to-day life. LEAP seeks to foster these improvements in youth and to increase youth mental, emotional, and behavioral health. Youth voice is incorporated into the intervention, with facilitators leading the first 7 sessions, and youth leading the remainder.
Participants in this arm will receive 14 sessions of EnvisionIT training, focused on preparing students with essential skills including digital literacy through competency in information technology, financial literacy, English language arts skills, and college and career readiness. All sessions will be delivered by facilitators trained in EnvisionIT.
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NCT06736522