Follow-Up Outcomes

The Boys Town National Research Institute^SM has completed Five-Year and Sixteen-Year Follow-Up Studies to measure the effectiveness of our Family Home Program. The studies compared Boys Town residents with the U.S. Population at large.

Two significant results from the Five-Year and Sixteen-Year studies emerged:

• Former Boys Town youth were nearly identical to the general population.
• The longer kids stay in the Boys Town program, the more they improve.

These results are important because of the severe behavioral, emotional and psychological problems youth experience when they are admitted to Boys Town. Upon completion of the program, recent follow-up surveys conducted at 6-,12-, and 24-months post departure indicate that these youth problems have decreased dramatically. View the 6-12-24-month follow-up surveys graph.

Boys Town empowers kids to make better decisions. The tremendous progress these troubled youth experience with us, and the strides they make after they leave, define the effectiveness of the Boys Town Model^SM.