Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

Alternatives For Girls

Code:

NCT06217809

Conditions

Abstinence, Sex

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 10 - 15

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

The intervention curriculum addresses sexual activity, abstinence, and adulthood preparation topics.

Study Details

Brief summary:

Alternatives For Girls (AFG's) EmpowHer curriculum is a program for youth who are 10-15 years of age. The curriculum is youth-co-led, and innovative (using online platforms and digitized presentation of material. EmpowHer addresses four adulthood preparation subjects (APS), such as parent-child communication, healthy relationships, adolescent development, and healthy life skills, and can be implemented as an after-school, in/out-of-school-time program.

Conditions

Abstinence, Sex

Study ID

NCT06217809

Start date

Feb 22, 2022

Status verified date

Aug, 2025

Completion date

Sep 30, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jan 30, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 10 - 15

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

Youth who are 10 -15 years of age at the start of the study and residing in Detroit, Outer-Wayne County or geographically similar areas at the time of enrollment will be eligible to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

Participants who are currently utilizing other services from Alternatives For Girls (AFG), children of AFG staff and youth participating in other sexual health education programs will not be eligible to participate and will be wait-listed until they are no longer receiving other services from AFG (i.e., after-school programs, summer day camps, mentoring, youth leadership programs, and shelter services). These services are unrelated to the study/sexual health education and do not include EmpowHer or Sassy Science. If siblings were to be enrolled, one would be randomly assigned, and the rest would be allowed to participate in the same group as the study sibling but not counted in the evaluation. This is to prevent possible contamination between conditions.

Study Design

Enrollment

552 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: EmpowHer

The intervention curriculum is designed to address abstinence, and adulthood preparation topics.

Interventions

The intervention curriculum addresses sexual activity, abstinence, and adulthood preparation topics.

The intervention is youth-co-led, and targets youth in Detroit, Out-Wayne County or geographically similar areas through a 16-unit curriculum totaling 20 hours. Each participant and their parent/guardian will also receive one individual session with a case planner. Parents will receive 3 hours of parental support group. EmpowHer contains lessons and activities focusing on topics relating to abstinence, and teen pregnancy prevention, focusing on adulthood preparation subjects (APS), such as parent-child communication, adolescent development, healthy life skills, and healthy relationships.

Primary outcome measure

  • Recent sexual activity [ Time Frame: At 9-month follow up. ]
  • Abstinence [ Time Frame: At 9-month follow up. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Celia Thomas, DHA

313-361-4000cthomas@alternativesforgirls.org

Locations

Alternatives For Girls

Recruiting

Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48208

Contacts

Celia Thomas, MPA

3133614000cthomas@alternativesforgirls.org

Jonquil Bertschi, JD

3133614000jbertschi@alternativesforgirls.org

More Information

Sponsor

Alternatives For Girls

Last update posted

Aug 14, 2025

Last verified

Aug, 2025

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Alternatives For Girls on 2025-08-14.