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Only two programs, QOP and STEP, offered
services or activities, such as life skills development classes and
work/volunteer activities, in an effort to promote self-sufficiency.
Both programs had mixed success in improving employment outcomes.
QOP participants
were less likely to be unemployed one year after the end of the program,
but STEP had no impact on the employment rate of participants in
comparison to the control group.
It is important to note, however, that STEP’s control group could
have had at least as many work activities as participants during summer
months. Participants attended
remedial and life skills classes in addition to working, whereas students
in the control group were assigned to jobs only.
The wages and hours of work for young people who participated in STEP
were not higher than those of the control group.
The program had no impact on likelihood of receiving welfare
benefits or food stamps.
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