View Research by Author - Lynn C. Burbridge

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This study focuses on three domains of risk behaviors: sexual behavior, substance use, and difficulties with social institutions (education, employment, and law). The specific outcomes investigated included risky sexual behavior, illicit drug use, alcohol use, education failure, social disconnection, and delinquency. The factors investigated here as potentially influencing change in male adolescents' risk behaviors were categorized as individual, family, or community variables. The study extends knowledge about the effects of community-level variables and attitudes toward masculinity on adolescent risk behaviors.

Massachusetts's ET differs from other state programs of its kind by emphasizing client choice; receiving most of its funding from the state rather than the federal government; contracting with nongovernment groups for employment, training, and education services; and using an intensive marketing effort aimed at potential participants, employers, and government agency welfare staff. This study is aimed at federal and state policymakers and welfare program staff seeking an understanding of new strategies in welfare reform: what works, what doesn't, and why.

Massachusetts's ET differs from other state programs of its kind by emphasizing client choice; receiving most of its funding from the state rather than the federal government; contracting with nongovernment groups for employment, training, and education services; and using an intensive marketing effort aimed at potential participants, employers, and government agency welfare staff. This study is aimed at federal and state policymakers and welfare program staff seeking an understanding of new strategies in welfare reform: what works, what doesn't, and why.

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