NCT04254562

Helping Youth on the Path to Employment

Helping Youth on the Path to Employment: Creating Economic Self-sufficiency

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 103 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Worcester · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Helping Youth on the Path to Employment (HYPE): Creating economic self-sufficiency, a randomized-controlled implementation efficacy hybrid trial, will test a manualized intervention combining educational and employment supports for young adults with mental health conditions on a college campus.

Detailed description

Previous controlled trials in mature adult subjects has consistently demonstrated that Supported Employment interventions (i.e., Individual Placement and Supports) elicit benefit for those with mental health conditions in getting and keeping productive work. Similarly, previous research demonstrates that Supported Education has efficacy in helping young adults with mental health conditions in their academics. However, to date, no evidence-based practice exists which combines both supported education and supported employment interventions into a single model that has efficacy and utility for young adults with serious mental health conditions. Supported Education has been fruitful for navigating academics, but hasn't demonstrated efficacy for supporting young adults with their careers, and Supported Employment programs, like IPS, have shown poor efficacy for helping young adults, as it was designed to assist mature adults. Therefore, the HYPE Model will become the first evidence-informed intervention to combine Supported Employment and Supported Education paradigms in an effort to help young adults with mental health conditions successfully navigate college so they can move into a primary labor market career and attain economic self-sufficiency. Furthermore, this study will be employed from within the university setting itself, on the college campus, and will be embedded directly in either Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) (i.e., Office of disability services) or Office of Counseling Services.

Conditions

• Mental Impairment
• Educational Problems

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Weekly Meetings with a Supported Employment/Supported Education Specialist	Participants will receive intervention for 12 months which includes weekly meetings with a Supported Employment/Supported Education Specialist (HYPE Specialist). During the weekly meetings, the HYPE Specialist will review each participant's education and employment goals, and deliver individualized support relevant to those goals which include use of structured HYPE tools and worksheets as needed.
BEHAVIORAL	Focused Skill and Strategy Training (FSST)	Participants receive a 12 week Focused Skill and Strategy Training (FSST), a structured cognitive remediation intervention.
BEHAVIORAL	Enhanced Services as Usual	One hour meetings every semester to review individual academic needs and review list of available on campus resources to best meet the student's needs.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-11
• Primary completion: 2023-01-30
• Completion: 2024-09-30
• First posted: 2020-02-05
• Last updated: 2025-07-23

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: United States