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‣ Reproductive Health: one out of 12 programs was found to be effective in improving at leastone reproductive health outcome--unintended or subsequent pregnancies. However, sevenprograms were found to have positive impacts for at least a sub-sample of the studiedpopulation or at least one study out of multiple studies of the program found positiveoutcomes.‣ Parenting and Family Formation: two out of five programs were found to have positiveimpacts on at least one parent and family formation outcome--parenting.‣ Substance Abuse: two out of eight programs were found to be effective in improving at leastone substance abuse outcome among young adults. However, four programs were found tohave positive impacts for at least a sub-sample of the studied population or at least one studyout of multiple studies of the program found positive outcomes.© 2010 Child Trends. May be reprinted with citation.The support of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and The Stewart Trustis gratefully acknowledged.Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at all stages of development. Ourmission is to improve outcomes for children by providing research, data, and analysis to the people and institutionswhose decisions and actions affect children. For additional information, including publications available todownload, visit our Web site at www.childtrends.org. For the latest information on more than 100 key indicatorsof child and youth well-being, visit the Child Trends DataBank at www.childtrendsdatabank.org. For summariesof over 400 evaluations of out-of-school time programs that work (or don't) to enhance children's development,visit www.childtrends.org/WhatWorks.7