The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the effects of Pathways to Potential (P2P) on youth violence involvement in Michigan public K-12 students. The main goals of this study are:

• This project will link longitudinal P2P participation data to state administrative records and school disciplinary data to evaluate associations between school P2P participation and youth outcomes-specifically chronic absenteeism, peer aggression expulsions, and child maltreatment rates within a school (Aim 1).
• Given the focus of P2P is to improve the social and structural conditions within a school that contribute to student chronic absenteeism, the team will assess if chronic absenteeism rates mediate the relationships between school P2P participation and youth violence involvement (Aim 2).
• Finally, a survey of success coaches will inform the examination of school and implementation factors that moderate associations between P2P participation and youth violence involvement (Aim 3).

Schools participating in P2P receive Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) caseworkers, called success coaches, in local elementary, middle, and high schools. After identifying a social or material need that is a barrier to school attendance (e.g., transportation barriers, caregiver unemployment), success coaches connect students and families to community resources and public assistance.

Administrative Data Inclusion Criteria:

• State of Michigan K-12 public school
• In person instruction
• Open to all students in District/area

Administrative Data Exclusion Criteria:

• Private schools
• Virtual learning
• Needs-specific schools

Survey Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years of age and older
• Working as a Success Coach inside a Michigan K-12 public school during the data collection period

Survey Exclusion Criteria:

• Former Success Coaches
• Success Coaches not working inside a Michigan K-12 public school during the data collection period

Almost all of the data used for analyses will come from secondary administrative datasets acquired through Data Use Agreements with specific State of Michigan agencies (i.e. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Department of Education).

The survey portion of this study will ONLY be administered to Success Coaches over the age of 18 who are actively working inside of a K-12 public school at the time of the collection period.

Individual participant data will not be shared with other researchers.

MDHHS P2P Data: The Data Use Agreement (DUA) stipulates that the data must only be used by members of the study team and that it must be destroyed at the conclusion of the study.

MDE K-12 Data: This dataset contains Personally Identifiable Information individual-level student data protected under FERPA. The dataset cannot be made publicly available without violating FERPA regulations, risking deductive disclosure, or violating the DUA.

MDHHS MiSACWIS Data: This dataset contains Personally Identifiable Information and sensitive details about child maltreatment investigations. The data cannot be made publicly available without risking deductive disclosure or violating the DUA.

Success Coach Survey data: The survey data will be deidentified and stored in the University of Michigan's Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research's (ICPSR) OpenICPSR repository.

The data will become available within a year of the collection completion data (June 2025) and will remain available indefinitely.

Researchers will be able to access individual level, anonymized success coach implementation questionnaire data. Can be found through the openICPSR data repository and accessed by creating a free account (https://doi.org/10.3886/E236862V1).