Piloting a Learning Collaborative for School-Based Bilingual Providers

This study is testing a program called a Learning Collaborative (LC) to help school leaders and staff better use a program called STRONG (Supporting Transition Resilience of Newcomer Groups). STRONG is a group program for middle school students who are new to the U.S. and helps with stress, anxiety, depression, and behavior problems. The LC will support bilingual (two-language speaking) mental health providers in schools who deliver STRONG. The study wants to see if the LC is practical and helpful for schools. To join, you need to be a school leader or staff member over 18 years old who manages school operations. The study is currently unclear on its recruitment status.

Study design: This is an interventional pilot study planning to enroll 70 participants. It is testing a Learning Collaborative to support the implementation of the STRONG intervention.
What's involved: A Learning Collaborative will be assigned to school leaders/staff for 12 months. This involves attending monthly learning sessions and consultation calls.
Compensation: Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up: The feasibility of the Learning Collaborative will be measured for 12 months from its initial implementation.

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Piloting a Learning Collaborative for School-Based Bilingual Providers Delivering Evidence-Based Interventions

Not Yet Recruiting

NAAll AgesInterventionalHealth services

University of Oregon

~70 participants

Updated 2026-04-20 on ClinicalTrials.gov

What's tested:STRONGLearning Collaborative

At a glance

Recruiting sites

0 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now

RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open

What they're measuring

Feasibility of LC - School Staff Ratings

Measured over Post Learning Collaborative (12 months from initial implementation)

+7 more outcomes measured

Conditions

Acculturative Stress

Mental Health

Where it's being run

1 sites across 1 states

Oregon1

Who to contact

Blanche Wright, PhD

[email protected]

541-346-4911

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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

(a) over 18 years old;

(b) district-level or school-level staff who manage and oversee operations and may have some decision-making power; district examples are superintendents and directors, and school examples are principals, vice principals, and directors.

(a) over 18 years old;

(b) mental health clinicians or school staff who regularly interact with newcomer students;

(c) bilingual in Spanish/English. It is important to note that at least one mental health clinician must facilitate STRONG but the co-facilitator can either be another clinician or a school staff who regularly interacts with newcomer students; example of such a school staff include English Language Development Teachers, interpreters, and equity coordinators

(a) newcomer status (students who have migrated to a new country)

(b) 6th-12th grade

c) speaks Spanish/English/Mam

(d) elevated levels of mental health symptoms and/or functional impairment

(a) over 18 years old;

(b) primary caregiver (e.g., biological parent; older sibling) of a newcomer student aged 10-17 who is participating in STRONG;

What this trial measures

Feasibility of LC - School Staff RatingsPost Learning Collaborative (12 months from initial implementation)
To access feasibility of the LC, school mental health providers and school leaders will complete the Feasibility subscale from the Acceptability, Feasibility \& Appropriateness measure. The response scale is 1 = not at all, 3 = moderately, 5 = extremely.
Feasibility of LC - AttendanceDuring each Learning Collaborative learning session and consultation call (monthly during 12 month duration of Learning Collaborative)
Attendance records for LC learning sessions and consultation calls will be collected by the research team
Feasibility of LC - Completion of PDSA cyclesDuring each Learning Collaborative learning session and consultation call (monthly during 12 month duration of Learning Collaborative)
Using meeting minutes from LC consultation calls and session surveys completed by facilitators, the research team will track the use of plan-do-study-act cycles by each school team and their progress to testing improvement ideas.
Feasibility of LC - Barriers & FacilitatorsPost Learning Collaborative (12 months from initial implementation)
Guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research, providers and leaders' semi-structured individual interviews will ask about barriers and facilitators to participating in LC activities and delivering STRONG
Acceptability of LC - Staff RatingsPost Learning Collaborative (12 months from initial implementation)
To access acceptability of the LC, the STRONG facilitators and school leaders will complete the Acceptability (6-items) and Appropriateness (5-items) subscales from the Acceptability, Feasibility \& Appropriateness measure . The response scale is 1 = not at all, 3 = moderately, 5 = extremely.
Acceptability of LC - Staff RecommendationPost Learning Collaborative (12 months from initial implementation)
School staff will rate their level of agreement with recommending the LC to others
STRONG FidelityEach STRONG session (weekly for 10 weeks)
An observational coding system will be developed to measure STRONG fidelity and competence for each session, which will be audio recorded by facilitators.
STRONG AdherenceEach STRONG session (weekly for 10 weeks)
The facilitator will be asked to complete self-adherence checklists for each session to assess their delivery of STRONG.

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