Pace Center for Girls
Effectiveness

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Promising

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Description

This service offers a set of gender-sensitive prevention and early intervention programs and activities to address the multiple risk factors for adolescent girls’ involvement in the justice system, such as academic failure, chronic absenteeism, and dropping out of school.
It follows a method focused on trauma and the emergence of associated behavioral problems, and prioritizes the formation of a supportive environment that pays more attention to adolescent girls’ strengths rather than their weaknesses.

Impact evaluations

After a follow-up period of 12 to 18 months, adolescents exposed to the centers’ intervention showed better results in terms of school engagement, academic progress, and fewer disciplinary sanctions than the adolescents in the control group [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Millenky, M., Treskon, L., Freedman, L. & Mage, C. (2019). Focusing on Girls’ Futures: Results from the Evaluation of PACE Center for Girls. https://www.mdrc.org/sites/default/files/PACE_Final_Report_2019.pdf