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NCT04506437: FCFN
Foster Care Mental Health Family Navigator
NA trial testing Family-based mental health navigation in Mental Health in 124 participants. Completed in 1 April 2025.
1 April 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | University of California, San Francisco |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 124 |
| Start date | 20 August 2020 |
| Primary completion | 1 April 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 1 April 2025 |
| Sites | 1 location across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Family-based mental health navigation
- Standard of care engagement practices
Conditions studied
- Mental Health — all drugs for Mental Health →
Sponsor
University of California, San Francisco
Who can join
Adults 12 to 17, any sex, with Mental Health. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
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.
Publications & conference data
2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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A Family-Based Mental Health Navigator Intervention for Youth in the Child Welfare System: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Tolou-Shams M, Ramaiya M, Lara Salas J, Ezimora I, et al · · 2023 · cited 2× · PMID 37698896 · DOI 10.2196/49999 -
Addressing System Challenges in Mental Health Services Research for Youth in the Child Welfare System: Insights From the Foster Care Family Navigator Trial.
Tolou-Shams M, Ramaiya M, Salas JL, Aguilera A, et al · · 2025 · PMID 41356078 · DOI 10.1002/mhs2.70003
Verify or expand the search:
- PubMed search for NCT04506437
- Europe PMC full search
- ASCO Meeting Library
- ESMO Meeting Library
- bioRxiv preprints
- medRxiv preprints
- Google Scholar
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04506437 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of California, San Francisco
- Last refreshed: 8 June 2025
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