Suicide PreventionNCT07506460
Integrating the Youth Nominated Support Team (YST) With CBT for Black Youth With Acute Suicide Risk: Aim 2b
A study testing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP) and Youth-Nominated Support Team in people with Suicide Prevention and Suicide, run by University of Michigan at 2 sites in United States.
Trial summary
This is a second pilot study being completed based on lessons learned from the Aim 2a feasibility pilot study (NCT06941311). Following modifications, the investigators are testing the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary effectiveness of the combination of two psychosocial interventions, Cognitive Behavioral… Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 12 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Suicide Prevention, Suicide, Self-Injurious Behavior
- What is being tested?
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP) and Youth-Nominated Support Team
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 90 participants
- Where
- 2 sitesUnited States
- Study dates
- 23 Mar 2026to Aug 2026
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 12 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Youth Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients that are able to provide at least one verifiable contact for emergency or tracking purposes
- Willing to receive care at MiSide
- Present to an acute emergency care setting with suicide risk (per protocol)
- Self-identify as Black
- Willing and able to complete enrollment procedures
- Willing and able to provide signed and dated informed assent
Youth Exclusion Criteria:
- Unable to be consented in English
- Do not have a parent/legal guardian available to provide consent
- Are not able to provide informed assent or to participate in the assessment due to significant agitation, psychosis, cognitive impairment, learning disability, or medical trauma
- Actively engaged in specialty mental health treatment
- Participated in the Aim 2a open trial
Parent/Guardian Inclusion Criteria:
- Adults 18 years and older
- The parent or legal guardian of a youth participating in this Aim
- Understand written and spoken English
- Willing and able to complete enrollment procedures
- Willing and able to provide signed and dated informed consent
- Need to have access to technology, either cell or an email address
Parent/Guardian Exclusion Criteria:
- Do not understand written and spoken English
Support Person Inclusion Criteria:
- Adults 18 years and older
- Understand written and spoken English
- Approved to serve as a support person by the parent/legal guardian
Support Person Exclusion Criteria:
- Do not understand written and spoken English
- Not approved to serve as a support person by the parent/guardian
Trial locations and contacts
2 sites in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
United States2 sites, 2 recruiting
- Recruiting
Children's Hospital of Michigan (CHM) Emergency Department
Detroit, Michigan, 48201
Christina Magness, LMSW, 734-252-6315, cmagness@med.umich.edu
Curt Stankovic, MD
- Recruiting
MiSide
Detroit, Michigan, 48210
Christina Magness, LMSW, 734-252-6315, cmagness@med.umich.edu
Marquita Felder, LMSW
About this study
Official title: Integrating the Youth Nominated Support Team (YST) With CBT for Black Youth With Acute Suicide Risk
This is a second pilot study being completed based on lessons learned from the Aim 2a feasibility pilot study (NCT06941311). Following modifications, the investigators are testing the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary effectiveness of the combination of two psychosocial interventions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP) and the computer-assisted version of the Youth-Nominated Support Team (eYST).
In this phase of the study, CBT-SP + eYST will be tested in an open trial (number of youth = 15). Investigators will recruit Black adolescents (ages 12-17) that come to an urban acute care setting for suicidal thoughts and/or self-injurious behaviors to receive the intervention in an outpatient community mental health agency. Participants will receive 12-14 sessions of CBT-SP in addition to YST. Participants will nominate up to 5 caring adults in their lives to serve as support persons. These support persons will attend an education/orientation session to learn more about their role and how to support the youth. Support persons will have weekly contact with the youth and weekly follow up contacts from the youth's clinician/YST intervention specialist.
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Youth will be assessed at baseline, 6 weeks, and 14 weeks. Parents will be assessed at baseline and 14 weeks. Support persons will be assessed at baseline and 14 weeks.
Fidelity assessments will be completed by clinicians after each session, after the YST psycho-ed session, and weekly to document contact with the support team.
- Being tested
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP), Youth-Nominated Support Team
- Keywords
- Black youth, Acute suicide risk, Youth Nominated Support Team, Cognitive Behavioral therapy for Suicide Prevention, Community Mental Health, Suicide prevention, Behavior Therapy, Psychotherapy, Behavioral Disciplines and Activities, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Medical subject headings
- Suicide Prevention, Suicide, Self-Injurious Behavior, Behavioral Symptoms, Behavior, Motor Activity
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP)Behavioural
Clinicians will provide this specialized evidence based mental health care. The study focuses on the acute phase of CBT-SP, which is 12 sessions. CBT-SP's goals are to reduce suicide risk factors, enhance coping, and prevent future suicidal behavior. Identifying the emotional, cognitive, behavioral, or familial processes that precede a suicide crisis is a major focus, which yields an individualized treatment plan. Each session lasts one hour and can be completed either in person or via a secure telehealth platform. Most youths will attend sessions on a weekly basis and therapists will prioritize parent engagement
Youth-Nominated Support TeamBehavioural
Youth will nominate up to 5 trusted adults. Following parental approval, Support Persons will attend a psychoeducational orientation session with their assigned intervention specialist (i.e., the youth's clinician), learn about the youth's difficulties, treatment plan, and receive ideas for supporting the youth. Support Persons will be asked to have contact with the youth each week for the 3 months of the study. During these calls, Support Persons have an opportunity to discuss any questions or concerns they may have about the youth and how best to support them.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| CBT for Suicide Prevention plus the Youth-Nominated Support Team | Experimental | Participation will be 3 months. Receives: Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP); Behavioral: Youth-Nominated Support Team |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Acceptability - percent of eligible youth consented
The intervention will be considered acceptable if at least 50% of eligible youth approached for participation choose to enroll in the study.
Measured: Baseline
Feasibility - Mean number of support people
The intervention will be considered feasible if the mean number of support people per youth is at least 3.
Measured: 6 weeks
Acceptability - Mean number of support person contacts
The intervention will be considered acceptable if the mean number of support person contacts with youth is at least 7.
Measured: 14 weeks
Feasibility - Number of CBT-SP sessions attended
Number of CBT-SP sessions attended by youth
Measured: 14 weeks
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted1 Apr 2026
- Study start23 Mar 2026
- Primary completionAug 2026 (estimated)
- Study completionAug 2026 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Suicide PreventionStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by University of MichiganThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Model description
- This study will recruit 15 youth and 15 parents/guardians, as well as up to 60 support individuals.
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 90 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of Michigan
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), MiSide, Children's Hospital of Michigan
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Cynthia Ewell Foster, University of Michigan
- Investigators
- Cynthia Ewell Foster, PhD, Principal investigator, University of Michigan
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07506460
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- HUM00225071b
- Other IDs
- 5R34MH131722-02
- Status last verified
- Mar 2026
- First submitted
- 26 Mar 2026
- Last updated
- 1 Apr 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Yes: Upload to National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Data Archive.
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 1 Apr 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Integrating the Youth Nominated Support Team (YST) With CBT for Black Youth With Acute Suicide Risk
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07506460
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- HUM00225071b
- Keywords
- Black youth, Acute suicide risk, Youth Nominated Support Team, Cognitive Behavioral therapy for Suicide Prevention, Community Mental Health, Suicide prevention, Behavior Therapy, Psychotherapy
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Enrolment
- 90 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- University of MichiganUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), MiSide, Children's Hospital of Michigan
- Study start
- 23 Mar 2026 (actual)
- Primary completion
- Aug 2026 (estimated)
- Study completion
- Aug 2026 (estimated)
- First posted
- 1 Apr 2026 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
This is a second pilot study being completed based on lessons learned from the Aim 2a feasibility pilot study (NCT06941311). Following modifications, the investigators are testing the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary effectiveness of the combination of two psychosocial interventions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP) and the computer-assisted version of the Youth-Nominated Support Team (eYST).
In this phase of the study, CBT-SP + eYST will be tested in an open trial (number of youth = 15). Investigators will recruit Black adolescents (ages 12-17) that come to an urban acute care setting for suicidal thoughts and/or self-injurious behaviors to receive the intervention in an outpatient community mental health agency. Participants will receive 12-14 sessions of CBT-SP in addition to YST. Participants will nominate up to 5 caring adults in their lives to serve as support persons. These support persons will attend an education/orientation session to learn more about their role and how to support the youth. Support persons will have weekly contact with the youth and weekly follow up contacts from the youth's clinician/YST intervention specialist.
Youth will be assessed at baseline, 6 weeks, and 14 weeks. Parents will be assessed at baseline and 14 weeks. Support persons will be assessed at baseline and 14 weeks.
Fidelity assessments will be completed by clinicians after each session, after the YST psycho-ed session, and weekly to document contact with the support team.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 1
- Model description
- This study will recruit 15 youth and 15 parents/guardians, as well as up to 60 support individuals.
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| CBT for Suicide Prevention plus the Youth-Nominated Support Team | Experimental | Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP), Behavioral: Youth-Nominated Support TeamParticipation will be 3 months. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 12 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP)Clinicians will provide this specialized evidence based mental health care. The study focuses on the acute phase of CBT-SP, which is 12 sessions. CBT-SP's goals are to reduce suicide risk factors, enhance coping, and prevent future suicidal behavior. Identifying the emotional, cognitive, behavioral, or familial processes that precede a suicide crisis is a major focus, which yields an individualized treatment plan. Each session lasts one hour and can be completed either in person or via a secure telehealth platform. Most youths will attend sessions on a weekly basis and therapists will prioritize parent engagement | Behavioural | CBT for Suicide Prevention plus the Youth-Nominated Support Team |
| Youth-Nominated Support TeamYouth will nominate up to 5 trusted adults. Following parental approval, Support Persons will attend a psychoeducational orientation session with their assigned intervention specialist (i.e., the youth's clinician), learn about the youth's difficulties, treatment plan, and receive ideas for supporting the youth. Support Persons will be asked to have contact with the youth each week for the 3 months of the study. During these calls, Support Persons have an opportunity to discuss any questions or concerns they may have about the youth and how best to support them. | Behavioural | CBT for Suicide Prevention plus the Youth-Nominated Support Team |
Primary outcome
Acceptability - percent of eligible youth consented
Time frame: Baseline
The intervention will be considered acceptable if at least 50% of eligible youth approached for participation choose to enroll in the study.
Feasibility - Mean number of support people
Time frame: 6 weeks
The intervention will be considered feasible if the mean number of support people per youth is at least 3.
Acceptability - Mean number of support person contacts
Time frame: 14 weeks
The intervention will be considered acceptable if the mean number of support person contacts with youth is at least 7.
Feasibility - Number of CBT-SP sessions attended
Time frame: 14 weeks
Number of CBT-SP sessions attended by youth
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 1 Apr 2026.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Yes. Upload to National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Data Archive.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part.
Cynthia Ewell Foster, PhD principal investigator
University of Michigan
2 sites in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP) and Youth-Nominated Support Team in people with Suicide Prevention and Suicide, run by University of Michigan at 2 sites in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 1 Apr 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 2 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Christina Magness, LMSW (734-252-6315, cmagness@med.umich.edu), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Acceptability - percent of eligible youth consented (time frame: Baseline). The study lists 4 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 1 Apr 2026.