Violence, PhysicalNCT05986188
Evaluating a School-based Social and Material Needs Identification System to Prevent Youth Violence Involvement
An observational study of Violence, Physical and Maltreatment, Child, run by University of Michigan at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the effects of Pathways to Potential (P2P) on youth violence involvement in Michigan public K-12 students. The main goals of this study are: This project will link longitudinal P2P participation data to state administrative records and school disciplinary data to… Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Violence, Physical, Maltreatment, Child
- What is being tested?
- Pathways to Potential
- How many people
- 111 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 21 Feb 2024to 30 Sep 2026
- Phase
- Observational
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Study population: Almost all of the data used for analyses will come from secondary administrative datasets acquired through Data Use Agreements with specific State of Michigan agencies (i.e. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Department of Education). The survey portion of this study will ONLY be administered to Success Coaches over the age of 18 who are actively working inside of a K-12 public school at the time of the collection period.
Administrative Data Inclusion Criteria:
- State of Michigan K-12 public school
- In person instruction
- Open to all students in District/area
Administrative Data Exclusion Criteria:
- Private schools
- Virtual learning
- Needs-specific schools
Survey Inclusion Criteria:
- 18 years of age and older
- Working as a Success Coach inside a Michigan K-12 public school during the data collection period
Survey Exclusion Criteria:
- Former Success Coaches
- Success Coaches not working inside a Michigan K-12 public school during the data collection period
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the effects of Pathways to Potential (P2P) on youth violence involvement in Michigan public K-12 students. The main goals of this study are:
- This project will link longitudinal P2P participation data to state administrative records and school disciplinary data to evaluate associations between school P2P participation and youth outcomes-specifically chronic absenteeism, peer aggression expulsions, and child maltreatment rates within a school (Aim 1).
- Given the focus of P2P is to improve the social and structural conditions within a school that contribute to student chronic absenteeism, the team will assess if chronic absenteeism rates mediate the relationships between school P2P participation and youth violence involvement (Aim 2).
- Finally, a survey of success coaches will inform the examination of school and implementation factors that moderate associations between P2P participation and youth violence involvement (Aim 3).
Schools participating in P2P receive Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) caseworkers, called success coaches, in local elementary, middle, and high schools. After identifying a social or material need that is a barrier to school attendance (e.g., transportation barriers, caregiver unemployment), success coaches connect students and families to community resources and public assistance.
- Conditions
- Violence, Physical, Maltreatment, Child
- Being tested
- Pathways to Potential
- Keywords
- material needs, social needs, intervention, school-based, school violence
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Pathways to PotentialOther
Pathways to Potential stations MDHHS caseworkers, called success coaches, in local elementary, middle, and high schools. After identifying a social or material need that is a barrier to school attendance (e.g., transportation barriers, caregiver unemployment), success coaches connect students and families to community resources and public assistance.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Implementing Schools | Implementing schools are public K-12 schools in the State of Michigan that participated in the Pathways to Potential program in a given year (from 2012 to 2024). Receives: Other: Pathways to Potential | |
| Non-implementing schools | Non-implementing schools are public K-12 schools in the State of Michigan that DID NOT participate in the Pathways to Potential program in a given year (from 2012 to 2024). |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Peer aggression expulsions
The state of Michigan requires all public schools to report expulsions for all students to the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), including the incident type(s) which led to the expulsion. Expulsions are instances in which the local educational agency removes a student from their regular school for disciplinary purposes for the remainder of the school year or longer. The investigators will consider expulsions for peer aggression as expulsions which included any of the following: 1) firearm possession-handgun; 2) firearm possession-rifle/shotgun; 3) firearm possession-other firearm; 4) other weapon possession; 5) bomb or similar threat; 6) arson; 7) physical violence with injury, or; 8) physical violence without injury. For each school, the study team will calculate the total number of peer aggression expulsions per school year.
Measured: Peer aggression expulsions will be measured for every academic school year from 2001 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability
Child maltreatment
The Michigan Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (MiSACWIS) includes dates of investigations into child maltreatment, names of alleged victims, and date of birth of alleged victims for all child maltreatment investigations in the state of Michigan. Investigators will link the MiSACWIS data to individual student data from MDE that includes information on student name, date of birth, schools of enrollment, and dates of school enrollment enrolled schools. The study team will use this linked dataset to calculate the number of child maltreatment investigations per school per school year.
Measured: Peer aggression expulsions will be measured for every academic school year from 2001 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability
Chronic absenteeism
A student is considered chronically absent if they miss 10% or more of school days in which they are enrolled at the school. For each school, the investigators will calculate the total number of students that were chronically absent via the data provided by MDE.
Measured: Chronic absenteeism will measured for every academic school year from 2004 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability
Secondary outcomes (1)
Firearm-involved expulsions
In the state of Michigan, firearm possession on school grounds by a student requires the student to be expelled from the school. Expulsions for firearm possession on school grounds can be recorded as one or more of the following incident types: 1) firearm possession-handgun; 2) firearm possession-rifle/shotgun; 3) firearm possession-other firearm. The study team will consider any expulsions that included one of these types as a reason for expulsion as a firearm-involved expulsion. For each school, the study team will calculate the total number of firearm-involved expulsions per school year.
Measured: Firearm-involved expulsions will be measured for every academic school year from 2001 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted14 Aug 2023
- Study start21 Feb 2024
- Primary completion1 Oct 2025
- Study completion30 Sep 2026
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Violence, PhysicalStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by University of MichiganThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Observational
- Observational model
- Cohort
- Time perspective
- Retrospective
- Enrolment
- 111 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of Michigan
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Wayne State University, The University of Texas at Arlington
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Rebeccah Sokol, University of Michigan
- Investigators
- Rebeccah L Sokol, PhD, Principal investigator, University of Michigan
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05986188
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- R01CE003536
- Status last verified
- Oct 2026
- First submitted
- 26 Jul 2023
- Last updated
- 20 Oct 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Yes: Individual participant data will not be shared with other researchers. MDHHS P2P Data: The Data Use Agreement (DUA) stipulates that the data must only be used by members of the study team and that it must be destroyed at the conclusion of the study. MDE K-12 Data: This dataset contains Personally Identifiable Information individual-level student data protected under FERPA. The dataset cannot be made publicly available without violating FERPA regulations, risking deductive disclosure, or violating the DUA. MDHHS MiSACWIS Data: This dataset contains Personally Identifiable Information and sensitive details about child maltreatment investigations. The data cannot be made publicly available without risking deductive disclosure or violating the DUA. Success Coach Survey data: The survey data will be deidentified and stored in the University of Michigan's Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research's (ICPSR) OpenICPSR repository.
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 20 Oct 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Evaluating a School-based Social and Material Needs Identification System to Prevent Youth Violence Involvement
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05986188
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- R01CE003536
- Conditions
- Violence, Physical, Maltreatment, Child
- Keywords
- material needs, social needs, intervention, school-based, school violence
- Study type
- Observational
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 111 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- University of MichiganUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Wayne State University, The University of Texas at Arlington
- Study start
- 21 Feb 2024 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 1 Oct 2025 (actual)
- Study completion
- 30 Sep 2026 (actual)
- First posted
- 14 Aug 2023 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the effects of Pathways to Potential (P2P) on youth violence involvement in Michigan public K-12 students. The main goals of this study are:
- This project will link longitudinal P2P participation data to state administrative records and school disciplinary data to evaluate associations between school P2P participation and youth outcomes-specifically chronic absenteeism, peer aggression expulsions, and child maltreatment rates within a school (Aim 1).
- Given the focus of P2P is to improve the social and structural conditions within a school that contribute to student chronic absenteeism, the team will assess if chronic absenteeism rates mediate the relationships between school P2P participation and youth violence involvement (Aim 2).
- Finally, a survey of success coaches will inform the examination of school and implementation factors that moderate associations between P2P participation and youth violence involvement (Aim 3).
Schools participating in P2P receive Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) caseworkers, called success coaches, in local elementary, middle, and high schools. After identifying a social or material need that is a barrier to school attendance (e.g., transportation barriers, caregiver unemployment), success coaches connect students and families to community resources and public assistance.
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
- Time perspective
- Retrospective
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Implementing Schools | – | Other: Pathways to PotentialImplementing schools are public K-12 schools in the State of Michigan that participated in the Pathways to Potential program in a given year (from 2012 to 2024). |
| Non-implementing schools | – | –Non-implementing schools are public K-12 schools in the State of Michigan that DID NOT participate in the Pathways to Potential program in a given year (from 2012 to 2024). |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
- Study population
- Almost all of the data used for analyses will come from secondary administrative datasets acquired through Data Use Agreements with specific State of Michigan agencies (i.e. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Department of Education). The survey portion of this study will ONLY be administered to Success Coaches over the age of 18 who are actively working inside of a K-12 public school at the time of the collection period.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Pathways to PotentialPathways to Potential stations MDHHS caseworkers, called success coaches, in local elementary, middle, and high schools. After identifying a social or material need that is a barrier to school attendance (e.g., transportation barriers, caregiver unemployment), success coaches connect students and families to community resources and public assistance. | Other | Implementing Schools |
Primary outcome
Peer aggression expulsions
Time frame: Peer aggression expulsions will be measured for every academic school year from 2001 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability
The state of Michigan requires all public schools to report expulsions for all students to the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), including the incident type(s) which led to the expulsion. Expulsions are instances in which the local educational agency removes a student from their regular school for disciplinary purposes for the remainder of the school year or longer. The investigators will consider expulsions for peer aggression as expulsions which included any of the following: 1) firearm possession-handgun; 2) firearm possession-rifle/shotgun; 3) firearm possession-other firearm; 4) other weapon possession; 5) bomb or similar threat; 6) arson; 7) physical violence with injury, or; 8) physical violence without injury. For each school, the study team will calculate the total number of peer aggression expulsions per school year.
Child maltreatment
Time frame: Peer aggression expulsions will be measured for every academic school year from 2001 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability
The Michigan Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (MiSACWIS) includes dates of investigations into child maltreatment, names of alleged victims, and date of birth of alleged victims for all child maltreatment investigations in the state of Michigan. Investigators will link the MiSACWIS data to individual student data from MDE that includes information on student name, date of birth, schools of enrollment, and dates of school enrollment enrolled schools. The study team will use this linked dataset to calculate the number of child maltreatment investigations per school per school year.
Chronic absenteeism
Time frame: Chronic absenteeism will measured for every academic school year from 2004 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability
A student is considered chronically absent if they miss 10% or more of school days in which they are enrolled at the school. For each school, the investigators will calculate the total number of students that were chronically absent via the data provided by MDE.
1 secondary outcome
Firearm-involved expulsions
Time frame: Firearm-involved expulsions will be measured for every academic school year from 2001 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 20 Oct 2026.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Yes. Individual participant data will not be shared with other researchers. MDHHS P2P Data: The Data Use Agreement (DUA) stipulates that the data must only be used by members of the study team and that it must be destroyed at the conclusion of the study. MDE K-12 Data: This dataset contains Personally Identifiable Information individual-level student data protected under FERPA. The dataset cannot be made publicly available without violating FERPA regulations, risking deductive disclosure, or violating the DUA. MDHHS MiSACWIS Data: This dataset contains Personally Identifiable Information and sensitive details about child maltreatment investigations. The data cannot be made publicly available without risking deductive disclosure or violating the DUA. Success Coach Survey data: The survey data will be deidentified and stored in the University of Michigan's Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research's (ICPSR) OpenICPSR repository.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Rebeccah L Sokol, PhD principal investigator
University of Michigan
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
An observational study of Violence, Physical and Maltreatment, Child, run by University of Michigan at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 20 Oct 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Peer aggression expulsions (time frame: Peer aggression expulsions will be measured for every academic school year from 2001 to 2022, possibly to 2024 depending on data availability). The study lists 3 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 20 Oct 2026.