Goals
Goal # 1
To encourage educational achievement and career planning for the participant.
Goal # 2
To improve parenting skills and knowledge of child development.
Goal # 3
To promote healthy interpersonal relationships and healthy family functioning.
Goal # 4
To delay a subsequent pregnancy until after the participant has graduated from high school.
Goal # 5
To promote the optimal health and development of participants and children.
Core Components
- The program ensures participants are enrolled in an educational program that meets the participant’s academic needs.
- The program provides participants with access to free, high quality childcare onsite or within one mile of the school.
- The program provides life skills education to prepare the participants for life after high school.
- The program provides parenting education that promotes positive parenting, child health and safety, and parent-child interaction.
- The program provides case management to address the participants’ unique needs.
- The program provides opportunities for peer connections.
- The program ensures that program participants and their children are connected to appropriate medical services.
- The program provides opportunities for family inclusion in service delivery.
- The program is appropriately staffed with qualified personnel.
- The program has administrative procedures that support continuous quality improvement and ethical practices.