The Rural Youth Program, an experimental program structured upon the results of extensive research on the needs of rural youths in the Southeast, is a coordinated in-school/out-of-school program to meet the needs of rural youths 14 to 20 years of age, regardless of whether these needs stem from poverty, an inadequate educational system,…

As part of a series aimed at developing better programs for rural youths, this study tested (summer, 1972) hypotheses about community, educational, and individual factors affecting the future adjustment of rural southeastern youths, who as 8th graders in 1963-64, represented 16 rural counties, (North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and…