Project SHIELD 2.0

Part of paid clinical trials in Lexington, Kentucky.

Sponsor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Study ID
NCT07804121
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • HIV
  • Substance Use Disorder (SUD)

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • SHIELD 2.0 — BEHAVIORAL
    SHIELD is an evidence-based police education training program that has been demonstrated to change police behavior (arrest and referrals) and improve outcomes among police and people who use drugs in NIH-funded and other research studies. The original intervention delivery relied on academic teams, limiting sustainability and scalability. Our novel "SHIELD 2.0" implementation strategy aims to address these limitations by capacitating the local behavioral health workforce to implement the steps of the SHIELD process, specifically to complete the delivery of the SHIELD intervention to local police officers.

Study Details

The project is a pragmatic, quasi-experimental hybrid type II effectiveness-implementation trial of a structural HIV prevention intervention to address police behavior (arrests and referrals) and ultimately improve health among people who use drugs. The study involves a novel implementation strategy that engages behavioral health workers as "local champions" in the delivery of an evidence-based police education program (SHIELD training intervention). In addition to examining implementation outcomes, primary outcomes focus on assessing effectiveness of the intervention among police (specifically in reducing drug-related arrests and promoting referrals to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) treatment. The investigator's overarching effectiveness hypothesis is that after law enforcement organizations receive the SHIELD training intervention, they will be more likely to refer people who use drugs to MOUD treatment and other health and social services, rather than arresting them for low level possession offenses. The study will be conducted across different counties in Appalachian Kentucky.

Key Dates

First listed
Sep 4, 2026
Start date
Jun 25, 2026
Status verified
Sep 2026
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2027
Completion
Apr 30, 2029

Study Design

Enrollment
150 participants (estimated)
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER

Arms

  • Experimental: SHIELD 2.0
    SHIELD is an evidence-based police education training program. Participants in this study are law enforcement officers who will receive the SHIELD training modules.

Primary Outcome Measure

Frequency of Law enforcement officer self-reported referrals to MOUD [ Time Frame: From baseline up to 12 months post SHIELD training ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
University of KentuckyLexingtonKentucky40506
Carol White, MPH
[email protected]
859-562-2684
Jennifer Havens, PhD
[email protected]
859-323-6553
Jennifer Havens, PhD (PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR)

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