Recruiting

Civic Leadership Program

Sponsor:

Boston University Charles River Campus

Code:

NCT06736522

Conditions

Adolescent Behavior Problem

Mental Health Wellness 1

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 14+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness

EnvisionIT

Study Details

Brief 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.

Conditions

Adolescent Behavior Problem

Mental Health Wellness 1

Study ID

NCT06736522

Start date

Dec 16, 2024

Status verified date

Aug, 2026

Completion date

Mar, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Mar, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 14+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Adolescents ages 14 and older in grades 9-12 during the Fall/Winter or in grades 9-11 during the Spring
  • Enrolled in a partner site in Massachusetts or Illinois
  • Adolescents are only included with parent consent and youth assent if they are under the age of 18. Adolescents at least 18 years old can provide consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • They participated in the pilot phase (UG3)
  • They cannot commit to participation in the full study (e.g., attendance at all intervention sessions)
  • They are not in grades 9-12 at a partner site
  • Parent/guardian has a preferred consent language other than English or Spanish.

Study Design

Enrollment

504 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness

The Leadership, Engagement, and youth Action Program with Mindfulness intervention (LEAP) consists of 14 sessions focused on youth leadership and mindfulness.

active comparator: EnvisionIT

EnvisionIT is a college and career-readiness program designed for students in grades 6-12. The EnvisionIT program will be delivered over 14 sessions, and focus on skills and career/college readiness.

Interventions

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.

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.

Primary outcome measure

  • Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness (EPOCH; Kern et al., 2016) measure of adolescent wellbeing [ Time Frame: Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months ]
  • Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman, 2001) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months ]
  • Self-Rated Health 12-item Short-Form Survey (SF-12; Ware et al., 1996) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 2-3 months, 6 months, 9 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Jennifer Greif Green, PhD

617-353-3253jggreen@bu.edu

Mario Cruz-Gonzalez, PhD

617-513-8762mcruzgonzalez@mgh.harvard.edu

Locations

University of Illinois, Chicago

Recruiting

Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60608

Contacts

Dana Rusch, PhD

312-413-1708drusch1@uic.edu

Principal Investigator:

Dana Rusch, PhD

METCO

Recruiting

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02119

Contacts

Wilmary Tejeda, MPA

617-427-1545wtejeda@metcoinc.org

Boston University

Recruiting

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215

Contacts

Jennifer Green

617-353-3253jggreen@bu.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Boston University Charles River Campus

Last update posted

Sep 1, 2026

Last verified

Aug, 2026

Keywords

  • mindfulness
  • youth leadership
  • youth wellbeing

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-08. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Boston University Charles River Campus on 2026-09-01.