Programs with Mixed Reviews for Preventing Pregnancies and Births: Vocational Education Programs

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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