Transitioning Youth Out of Homelessness 2.0 (TYOH 2.0)

Status Active, not recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Introduction: This 12-month pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) builds on previous community-engaged work and explores whether portable rent subsidies and an intervention targeting identity capital (purpose, control, self-efficacy, and self-esteem) hold promise as a way to facilitate socioeconomic inclusion for youth (age 16 - 24 years) exiting homelessness and living in market rent housing in Ontario, Canada. All (n = 40) participants will receive rent subsidies; half will be randomly assigned an identity capital intervention (co-designed leadership guide + coach). Methods and analysis: This study will employ a convergent mixed methods, two-arm parallel RCT, open-label design with 1:1 allocation embedded within a Community Based Participatory Action Research framework and underpinned by Critical Social Theory. Specifically, the objectives and measures are: 1. Primary - examine whether targeted economic and identity-based supports are a feasible and acceptable way to foster socioeconomic inclusion. Measures: recruitment/enrolment/dropout metrics; self-report composite checklists regarding intervention engagement; qualitative focus groups. 2. Secondary - assess differences between targeted economic and identity-based supports (intervention group) and economic supports only (control group) at the 12-month primary endpoint with respect to self-reported socioeconomic inclusion measures of: 1) education, employment and training (EET); 2) housing security; and 3) identity capital. Measures: self-report composite EET checklist; self-report measures of housing security and identity capital. 3. Exploratory - explore whether variables at baseline (e.g., participant demographics such as gender or global assessment of individual needs [GAIN]) suggest the intervention may be more feasible and acceptable for certain groups of young people. Measures: select variables from the baseline demographic; GAIN-Short Screener questionnaires for those in the intervention group. Ethics and dissemination: This study received ethical approval from the Unity Health Toronto Research Ethics Board. The investigators will continue working alongside community partners - including youth with lived expertise - to disseminate findings broadly and in diverse formats.

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT05781503
Study type	Interventional
Source	Unity Health Toronto
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Status	Active, not recruiting
Phase	N/A
Start date	March 1, 2023
Completion date	February 28, 2024

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