Youth Empowerment and Safety Intervention
Youth Empowerment and Safety Intervention for Systems-involved Sexual and Gender Minority Youth at Risk of Suicide
Case Western Reserve University
60 participants
Jan 31, 2026
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This clinical trial will implement and evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and initial impact of Peer Support Specialist (PSS) services for public system-involved sexual and gender minority (lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and/or transgender) youth (SGMY) at risk of suicide.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria11
- -17 years of age
- Self-identify as a sexual or gender minority (SGM)
- Involved in one or more system: juvenile justice, child welfare, and/or community-based mental health
- Personal experience with self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITB)
- English speaking
- Willing and able to provide informed assent
- -80 years of age
- English speaking
- Willing and able to provide informed consent
- Not English speaking
- Unwilling and/or unable to provide informed consent
Exclusion Criteria7
- Less than 12 or greater than 17 years of age (0-11 or 18 and over)
- Do not self-identify as a sexual or gender minority (SGM)
- Not involved in the juvenile justice, child welfare, and/or community-based mental health systems
- No personal experience with self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITB)
- Not English speaking
- Unwilling and/or unable to provide informed assent
- Less than 18 or greater than 80 years of age (0-17 or 81 and over)
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Interventions
Behavioral health services (treatment as usual)
Behavioral health services (treatment as usual) along with referral to and utilization of Peer Support Specialist services
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NCT07214233