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.
The CAR youths did not, however, have higher grades or higher scores on standardized tests. As noted earlier, it has been difficult to motivate youths to attend afterschool tutoring partly because of the problems of traveling home in dangerous neighborhoods. Neighborhood comparisons Findings were collected from the four cities that had quasi-experimental comparison neighborhoods and included the percentage change in Part 1 crimes from 1991 to 1993. The CAR neighborhoods showed that the decline in Part 1 offenses in three of the four cities exceeded the decline in the comparison neighborhoods and exceeded declines citywide. The only exception was Memphis, perhaps due to considerable turnover in the police department during this period.