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By Youth, For Youth: Digital Supported Peer Navigation for Addressing Child Mental Health Care

NCT06122688 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 8360

Last updated 2026-01-28

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Summary

Despite significant progress in research, practice, and policy over the past few decades, many children and youth continue to experience poor mental health outcomes. With their unrivaled ability to reach youth, school-based services and primary care are ideal hubs to provide mental health, healthcare, social services, and prevention to youth and families who otherwise face barriers to care. Using Participatory Design and Community Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) for app development, mobile technology is designed to optimize access to wellness resources. The proposed intervention is a model of care using technology and navigators for connecting youth ages 13-22 to mental health care and supports. The app is co-created with the community and supported by culturally responsive individuals called family and youth navigators, in schools and primary care clinics. Outcomes are measured using the cascade of care model.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Navigator Plus App Intervention

Navigators will provide their usual care services and also be encouraged to use the Connected for Wellness (CFW) app during their usual activities with youth and caregivers at their site. The duration of this period (2, 3, or 4 years) will depend on the step period of the individual's site. All youth at the school or clinic site can use the CFW app on their own and through the app receive prevention strategies, psycho-education that destigmatizes mental health, encourages referrals to local resources as needed, and increases motivation to access care if needed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
99 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-07-01
Primary Completion
2029-06-30
Completion
2029-06-30

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