EVALUATION
Evaluation
Randomized Control Trial Evaluation
A multi-year randomized control trial evaluation deemed the CAS-Carrera program “a strategy that works” as demonstrated by these statistically significant outcomes:
- After three years, 79% of the CAS-Carrera participants were still in the program.
- Female CAS-Carrera participants had one-third the odds of becoming pregnant as the control group (.31 odds ratio).
- Both male and female CAS-Carrera participants had lower rates of sexual activity than did the control group.
- Females in the program were significantly more likely than control girls to have used a condom and a hormonal method of contraception at last intercourse.
- Sexuality and reproductive knowledge gains were significantly higher than such gains among control boys.
- Male CAS-Carrera participants were also more likely than control boys to have a medical home, to have had their hepatitis B vaccination, and to have made a reproductive health care visit in the past year.
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More Than A Decade of Research: summary of ongoing research conducted by external evaluators over the past decade.
Implementation Evaluation: In-School Model
The in-school CAS-Carrera program model was launched in 2006 and early assessment based on CAS-Carrera participant and teacher feedback show promising results including: better and more frequent connections with trusted adults; improved management of emotions; greater engagement in learning; a stronger sense of “group life”; fewer incidents of fighting, stealing, and bullying; increased knowledge about their bodies; and firmer resistance to negative peer pressure.
The most recent study, published by The Harvard Research Exchange, highlights the robust opportunity for expanding the model to other schools and communities due in part that the in-school model fills significant and widely identified service gaps in each of the schools.