About this trial
Focus: Intervention \& prevention of child commercial sexual exploitation or trafficking (CST) In Kentucky, familial SU/D increases risk of CST.
Primary goal: Implement and evaluate effectiveness of multi-level bystander-informed program (CSTOP Now!) aimed at Kentucky public middle schools for staff.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Kentucky middle school staff in a public school
Kentucky middle school staff in the intervention or attention control schools/counties.
Disqualifiers
Kentucky middle school staff not in intervention or attention control schools/counties.
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
CSTOP Now!
BehavioralChild sex trafficking stops with you. Implement and evaluate the effectiveness of a multi-level bystander-informed program (CSTOP Now!) aimed at Kentucky public middle school staff. Participants will be trained to use the See It To Stop It Indicator Tool (SITSII) by using tiers of concern (clear concern, possible concern, and monitor of emerging concern). The SITSII tool directs the bystander actions to Decide, Directly Intervene, Disrupt, Delegate, and Document.
Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky Online Training
BehavioralThe Kentucky State Police, in association with Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky, have developed videos we invite active comparator schools to review which also include how to identify and report child sex trafficking.
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Knowledge and Attitudes toward Child Sex Trafficking (CST) among middle school staff
Knowledge of CST to include legal and behavioral definitions, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and awareness CST in staff's school or community Attitudes toward CST include stereotypes of those trafficked, their families and consumers, staff's empathy and attitudes toward helping those trafficked, self-efficacy to address CST with students or staff. Sex Trafficking Attitudes Scale, Human Trafficking Myths Scale, Adaptation of Self-Confidence and Screening Behaviors for Domestic Violence Scale
Secondary outcomes
Use of bystander actions and See It To Stop It Indicator (SITSII) screening tool
Use of active bystander behaviors to prevent or stop child sex trafficking. Bystander behaviors to include the number of events reported by middle school staff to include directly intervene, delegate, disrupt, and document of behaviors to prevent child sex trafficking or report potential child sex trafficking. Based on Banyard, Plante, Moynihan (2005) Bystander Efficacy Scale and adapted for child sex trafficking.
Sponsors and contacts
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Ann Coker
Lead sponsor
University of Kentucky
Sponsor institution
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Collaborator