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YES: Innovative Discussion for Engagement, Achievement, and Service
Who can join
Ages 10 to 15 · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome
Full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Students enrolled in afterschool programs at multiple middle schools in Counties across south-east Michigan * Students in 6th through 8th grade * Students who assent Exclusion Criteria: * Non-students * Students who do not assent or whose parents notify us of their refusal
About the study
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of YES-IDEAS (YES: Innovative Discussion for Engagement, Achievement, and Service)compared to regular after school programming in increasing youth empowerment, promoting positive behaviors, and decreasing youth violence.
Through the evidence-based YES (Youth Empowerment Solutions) program, youth design and implement projects to help improve their communities. In the current study, investigators adapted the existing YES curriculum to empower youth from diverse backgrounds to reduce violent behavior. The adapted curriculum, YES-IDEAS, focus on middle school students.
The investigators test the effects of YES-IDEAS curriculum on youths' sense of empowerment, attitudes, and violent behavior. They designed the study to be a group-randomized trial in after-school programs across multiple middle schools in south-east Michigan, but issues that arose due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other practical issues with the schools we modified the design to be a matched control group design at the school level. Matching variables included size, geographic locations, race/ethnicity, free/reduced lunch status. Dose-response and sustainability of YES-IDEAS effects are also examined.
What is being tested
- YES IDEAS (behavioral)
Sponsor: University of Michigan · Participants: 512 · Started: Apr 1, 2022
Contact the study team
- Marc A Zimmerman, PhD · Phone: 734-647-0224
- Katherine T Taelman, MAT, MPH · Phone: 269-267-5281
Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT05337410
Locations in the U.S.
| Michigan | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.