NCT06736522

Future Leaders Program: Testing a Youth Leadership, Engagement, and Mindfulness Program

Can A Youth Leadership and Mindfulness Program Support Well-being for Youth of Color?

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 504 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Boston University Charles River Campus · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The current study tests the feasibility and effectiveness of a youth intervention designed to provide meaningful leadership opportunities through the acquisition of leadership skills as well as mindfulness practice, LEAP: Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness. The goal of this project is to determine whether the Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness (LEAP) curriculum, which was developed with youth, is a feasible and effective intervention for fostering leadership and well-being. The investigators seek to understand whether LEAP can support wellbeing for youth as a strategy to increase youth mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) health.

Detailed description

The LEAP study will determine whether a 14-session program designed to provide leadership and mindfulness skills to youth is an effective and feasible intervention. The curriculum consists of 14 two-hour sessions delivered after school. The comparison group will take part in EnvisionIT, a college and career readiness program designed for students in grades 6 through 12. EnvisionIT aims to prepare students with essential skills including digital literacy, and college and career readiness. The comparison group will also have 14 two-hour group sessions. Both LEAP and EnvisionIT will be delivered by trained facilitators. All participants in LEAP and EnvisionIT will be assessed at four time points; facilitators will also complete interviews post-intervention and provide feedback on data fidelity and acceptability following each session. This record reports on the UH3 phase of the grant.

Conditions

• Adolescent Behavior Problem
• Mental Health Wellness 1

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness	The Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness intervention (LEAP) was designed and co-created with youth to improve youth well-being by enhancing leadership opportunities and by developing mindfulness in day-to-day life. LEAP seeks to foster these improvements in youth and to increase youth mental, emotional, and behavioral health. Youth voice is incorporated into the intervention, with facilitators leading the first 7 sessions, and youth leading the remainder.
BEHAVIORAL	EnvisionIT	Participants in this arm will receive 14 sessions of EnvisionIT training, focused on preparing students with essential skills including digital literacy through competency in information technology, financial literacy, English language arts skills, and college and career readiness. All sessions will be delivered by facilitators trained in EnvisionIT.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-12-16
• Primary completion: 2028-03-01
• Completion: 2028-03-01
• First posted: 2024-12-16
• Last updated: 2025-08-07

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States