The ICEC Cluster Trial: Integrated Community Engagement Collaborative for Youth Substance Use Prevention in Rural America

Conditions

• Adolescent Substance Use
• Substance Use (Drugs, Alcohol)
• Tobacco Use

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

10 Years - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Accepted

Interventions

• Integrated Community Engagement Collaborative — OTHER
  The Integrated Community Engagement (ICE) Collaborative is a community capacity-building framework designed to strengthen local prevention systems and reduce youth alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use. The intervention includes annual collection and dissemination of youth survey data, coalition development, stakeholder engagement, data-driven decision making, strategic planning, technical assistance, resource development, and implementation support. Network Coordinators housed within Regional Prevention Lead Organizations provide ongoing support to County Prevention Coalitions to facilitate community-driven prevention planning and implementation. Counties participate in repeated annual implementation cycles throughout the study period.
• School-Based Data Collection and Reporting without Network Coordinator Support — OTHER
  Annual collection of confidential school-based survey data from students in grades 7 through 12 and dissemination of school-level and county-level reports describing alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and associated risk and protective factors. Counties assigned to this condition receive data reports but do not receive implementation support, technical assistance, coalition development activities, or Network Coordinator assistance.

Study Details

This study will evaluate whether the Integrated Community Engagement (ICE) Collaborative can help prevent alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use among youth living in rural communities. The study is coordinated through the West Virginia University Prevention Research Center and will be conducted in participating public schools and County Prevention Coalitions located in up to 36 rural counties in West Virginia. Students in grades 7 through 12 at participating public schools will complete confidential online surveys once each year for four years. The surveys will assess alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, as well as family, peer, school, and community factors that may increase or decrease the risk of substance use. All participating counties will receive reports summarizing these survey results at the school and county levels. Counties will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. Counties in the intervention group will receive support from trained Network Coordinators who will work with local County Prevention Coalitions to review community data, engage local stakeholders, develop action plans, strengthen prevention efforts, and support implementation of community-selected prevention strategies. Counties in the comparison group will receive survey reports but will not receive this implementation support. The researchers will compare the two groups to determine whether the ICE Collaborative reduces youth alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and improves community factors that support healthy youth development. The study will also evaluate whether the intervention strengthens community prevention coalitions, stakeholder engagement, resource development, and implementation of prevention programs and policies

Key Dates

First listed

Sep 28, 2026

Start date

Oct 31, 2026

Status verified

Sep 2026

Primary completion

Jul 31, 2030

Completion

Jul 31, 2030

Study Design

Enrollment

25,000 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Arms

• Experimental: ICE Collaborative With Network Coordinator Support
  Counties assigned to this arm will participate in the Integrated Community Engagement (ICE) Collaborative. Students in grades 7 through 12 will complete annual confidential surveys, and counties will receive school-level and county-level reports summarizing alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and associated risk and protective factors. County Prevention Coalitions will receive implementation support from Network Coordinators, including coalition development, stakeholder engagement, dissemination and interpretation of local data, strategic planning, resource development, and support for implementation of locally selected prevention strategies through a structured community engagement process
• Active Comparator: Survey Reporting Only
  Counties assigned to this arm will participate in annual school-based surveys of students in grades 7 through 12 and will receive school-level and county-level reports describing alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and associated risk and protective factors. Counties in this arm will not receive Network Coordinator support, coalition capacity-building activities, technical assistance, or implementation support provided through the Integrated Community Engagement Collaborative.

Primary Outcome Measure

Change in Past 30-Day Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug (ATOD) Use Prevalence [ Time Frame: Baseline and Annually through Year 5 ]

Central Contacts

• Alfgeir L Kristjansson, PhD
  304-293-3129
  [email protected]
• Jessica Coffman, MA
  304-293-6283
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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