Educationally Disadvantaged Older Youth: Enrollment in an Educational Program

One program that did not have the explicit goal of improving educational outcomes nonetheless successfully improved them in the short term. Participants in the Nurse Home Visitation Program (NHV1) were more likely than youths in the control group to be enrolled in an educational program six months after the end of the study (59 percent vs. 27 percent), although that difference disappeared after 22 months.