Afterschool tutoring has not been as well attended as an afterschool computer lab. Summer programs stress work experience and provide stipends for youths performing jobs and attending employment training. Local police are also very active in the CAR program and organize activities in the neighborhoods. The closest police collaboration exists in the Bridgeport, Connecticut, program where police officers and case managers share a storefront office accessible to the youths. The final element of the program is services integration.
Agencies work together at two levels.
Preliminary evaluation findings Study method. Comparisons of the treatment and control groups within the target neighborhoods will assess the impact of intensive case management, family services, mentoring, and education incentives. The quasi-experimental comparisons in each city will be used to look at the effects of neighborhood intervention. Evaluation data will include interviews with the youths and caregivers that were conducted before the start of services and 2 years later, at the end of services, as well as records provided by police, courts, and schools. Analyses are under way.