Preventing Pregnancy and Improving Health Care Access among Teenagers: An Evaluation of the Children's Aid Society-Carrera Program
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive HealthPublished 1 September 2002
Susan Philliber, Jacqueline Williams Kaye, Scott Herrling, Emily West
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This program is one of only four whose evaluation has successfully documented declines in teenage pregnancy using a random-assignment design, and better outcomes among males may be achieved if programs reach them even earlier than their teenage years.
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This program is one of only four whose evaluation has successfully documented declines in teenage pregnancy using a random-assignment design. Better outcomes among males may be achieved if programs reach them even earlier than their teenage years.
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