THE usual procedure for the care of boys who have completed a period of training in a correctional institution is for them to be paroled. In Illinois they are paroled from the St. Charles School for Boys to state parole officers, whose chief responsibility is working with adult offenders. The director of the Department of Public Welfare in Illinois temporarily changed this procedure by requesting that the Foster-Home Placement Department of the St. Charles School take over the supervision of paroled boys in the immediate vicinity of the school. Under this arrangement the Foster-Home Placement Department assumed responsibility from May 20 to July 24, 1937, for thirty-three paroled boys — an addition to the regular placement work of the department. During this limited period of supervision, each boy was visited once, with the exception of two who could not be located, and in some cases where the problems seemed particularly urgent two or three visits were made. The workers talked with the foster-parents and boys separately, and in most instances neighbors or some independent references were visited. There was not sufficient time to make a complete study of each boy's case, so only the more obvious facts are reported here. 1 These facts are divided into three general divisions: first, with the boys' histories before coming to the St. Charles School as recorded at the school; second, the boys' programs at the school; and, third, the boys' placement experiences and present problems following his school training. It is felt that the group of thirty-three boys under supervision is a fairly representative sample of all the boys committed to the St. Charles School, as the only limiting factor in the selection of these boys is that they have been paroled to some home in the immediate vicinity of the school. They have probably, therefore, received more