Forging Hopeful Futures to Reduce Youth Violence — FHF  

Adolescent Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title: Forging Hopeful Futures: A Racial and Gender-Justice Program to Reduce Youth Violence

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

This cluster-randomized community-partnered study will examine the effectiveness of a racial-, gender-, and economic-justice focused youth violence prevention program called Forging Hopeful Futures with youth ages 13-19.

Clinical Trial Description

This community-partnered cluster randomized trial in 16 neighborhoods impacted by structural inequities and high levels of community violence in Pittsburgh, PA and urban Washington D.C. and Maryland metro areas will evaluate effectiveness of Forging Hopeful Futures with youth ages 13-19. Forging Hopeful Futures combines economic justice content from job readiness training, racial and gender justice content from gender-transformative programming, and leadership building as a novel multi-level violence prevention intervention. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adolescent Behavior
• Communication, Personal
• Coping Skills
• Racism
• Violence in Adolescence
• Violence, Gender-Based
• Violence, Non-accidental
• Violence, Physical
• Violence, Sexual

• NCT number: NCT05743478
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Pittsburgh
• Contact: Afton Kirk-Johnson, PhD
• Phone: 412-692-6056
• Email: kirkjohnsona@upmc.edu
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 10, 2023
• Completion date: September 30, 2025