Independent Living Program - Florida's Center for Child Welfare

OUTCOME AREA NOT PROVEN TO WORK MIXED FINDINGS FOUND TO WORKthan controls.- Youth participating in the Job TrainingPartnership Act (JTPA) were more likely thancontrols to be employed at the follow-upassessment.EarningsWelfare DependenceReproductiveHealthSexual Risk-Taking- The Ohio Learning, Earning, andParenting Program did not impact earnings.- Participants in the New Chance programwere more likely than control participants tohave ever received welfare during theintervention period and were on welfare forlonger periods of time than controls.- There were no differences in welfare ratesbetween controls and those attending theTeenage Parent Demonstration (TPD).- The Job Training Partnership Act(JTPA) did not impact AFCD and foodstamp receipt.- There were no differences between controlsand participants in the FOCUS program onconsistency of condom use or number ofcasual sex partners.- There were no differences between NewChance participants and controls on rates ofcontraceptive use.- The PARTNERS program did not impactconsistency of condom use, unprotected sex,or use of other types of contraception.- There were no differences between youth- With the exception of white males,participants in the Youth Corps programreceived higher earnings than their controlcounterparts.- With the exception of 18 and 19 year-oldHispanic youth, the Job Corps program led toincreased earnings for participants.- Only male participants with arrest recordsand males who had previously dropped out ofhigh school experienced increased earningsrelative to their control counterparts aftertaking part in JOBSTART; otherdemographic groups did not experienceearnings benefits.- The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)led to increased earnings for older, adultparticipants, but not for youth.- Females who were not mothers when theyentered the JOBSTART program were lesslikely than their control counterparts to receiveAFDC during later follow-up years; however,no other demographic groups experiencedthese impacts.- Women with multiple risk factorsparticipating in the Nurse-FamilyPartnership spent a shorter time on welfareand receiving food stamps than their controlcounterparts; however, these effects did notoccur for the full sample.- The Varying the Timing of an HIV-Prevention Intervention led to significantlyfewer sex partners and fewer instances ofunprotected sex in one study, but anotherstudy revealed no differences acrossintervention and control groups.- Participants who watched the interventionvideo and attended discussions in the Video-Based STD Patient Education program weremore likely than their control counterparts toredeem coupons for condoms; however black- Youth participating in the Teenage ParentDemonstration (TPD) had higher earningsrates than controls at the long-term follow-up.- Participants in the Ohio Learning, Earning,and Parenting Program were less likely to beon welfare at the long-term follow-up.- Job Corps participants received significantlyless public assistance than controls.11