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Job Corps is an intensive education, vocational training,
and support program (Schochet, Burghardt, & Glazerman, 2000). Each
year, the program serves more than 60,000 disadvantaged youths aged 16
to 24; most participants live together in residential settings. Job Corps
centers provide individualized and self-paced academic instruction, occupational
skills training, health care, counseling, and activities designed to improve
interpersonal skills. The average participation period lasted eight months.
One evaluation of the program compared youth randomly assigned to either
the Job Corps experimental group or to a control group and found no significant
differences in birth rates between groups.
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