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Treatment and comparison groups differed significantly on state-mandated outcomes.

• Participants in the Enhanced Mental Health Services initiative had significantly higher rates of completion of community service.
• Participants in the Enhanced Services to High-Risk/High-Need Youths initiative did at least as well as the previous year's cohort in five of the big six outcomes and exceeded expectations for rates of arrest.
• Participants in the Enhanced School- and Community-Based Services initiative had significantly more-positive outcomes than the comparison-group youths in five of the big six outcome measures. For the programs that used educational measures as supplemental outcomes, school attendance improved significantly in the term following program entry. School suspensions and expulsions also dropped, although the differences were not always statistically significant. Among participants in the school-based programs, test scores were significantly higher for strengths and significantly lower for risks and barriers, except for strengths in the very small School-Based Probation Supervision for Middle School Probationers program. Abolish Chronic Truancy and Inside-Out Writers showed significant improvements in supplemental outcomes as well.

Treatment and comparison groups differed significantly on county-mandated outcomes, but samples were small enough to warrant caution in interpretation.

• Supplemental outcomes in the Enhanced Mental Health Services initiative showed significant differences in Brief Symptom Inventory scores for youths in the Mental Health Screening, Assessment, and Treatment program and in school attendance for Multisystemic Therapy participants.
• In the Enhanced Services to High-Risk/High-Need Youths initiative, self-efficacy scores improved significantly for Gender-Specific Community youths. Among High Risk/High Need participants, measures of family relations also improved significantly.