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Virtual Village for Young Parents

Preventing Intimate Partner Violence Among Teens Who Are Pregnant or Parenting

Who can join

Ages 16 to 21 · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

Inclusion Criteria:

Pregnant or parenting youth (Pilot RCT participants)

* Aged 16-21 years.
* Currently pregnant, partner of a pregnant person, or parenting a child (i.e., have contact with child at least once per week).
* Able to speak and read English.
* Willing and able to provide written informed consent.
* Willing and able to provide adequate contact/locator information.

Facilitators (IDI participants)

* Aged 18 years or older.
* Trained and served as a facilitator of the virtual SDYP intervention.
* Able to speak and read English.
* Able and willing to provide verbal informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria (Pilot RCT participants):

* Has any other condition that, in the opinion of the PI or their designee, would preclude informed consent, make study participation unsafe, complicate interpretation of study outcome data, or otherwise interfere with achieving the study objectives.
* Currently participating or will be participating in a violence prevention education program in the next 3 months.
* Previously participated in the Empowering Young Parents study.

About the study

This project will study virtual delivery of Safe Dates for Young Parents (SDYP), a 10-session, group-based intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention program tailored for adolescents and young adults who are pregnant or parenting. This program has the potential to improve the health and well-being of young parents and their children, and virtual delivery may improve participants' ability to attend. The main questions it aims to answer are: (1) Is it feasible and acceptable to implement SDYP in a virtual setting? (2) Are SDYP participants less likely to experience IPV than participants in an alternate health education program? Participants will be invited to a series of virtual program sessions for either SDYP or a health education program focused on physical activity and nutrition and will be asked to complete surveys before the programs begin and up to 6 months later.

What is being tested

• Virtual Safe Dates for Young Parents (behavioral)
• HealthSmart (behavioral)

Sponsor: RTI International · Participants: 80 · Started: Nov 11, 2025

Contact the study team

• Marni Kan, PhD · Phone: 919-485-2756
• Marie Stoner, PhD · Phone: 510-665-8285

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT07226401

Locations in the U.S.

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.