Foster Care Mental Health Family Navigator

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Mental Health

In brief

This study will focus on developing and testing a family-based mental health navigator intervention, the Foster Care Family Navigator (FCFN), to evaluate whether the intervention combined with mHealth would be efficacious in improving mental health service initiation and engagement for child welfare-involved youth.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04506437

Run by

University of California, San Francisco

People needed

76

Starts

2020-08-20

Expected to finish

2025-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-06-30

Who can join

Age: 12 and older, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• English-speaking youth
• Ages 12-17
• Have an active dependency petition with the SF Unified Family Court (newly filed or existing when the trial starts)
• Are open to SF DPH Foster Care Mental Health Clinic services
• Have an involved caregiver/legal guardian for consent
• Family has mobile phone access

You may not qualify if…

• Youth is not English-speaking
• Caregiver has impairment that would preclude providing informed consent
• Unavailable guardian for consent

Where it is running

• UCSF Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital — San Francisco, California, United States

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