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Specialized Services for Young Parents
Adolescent parenting is associated with maternal and infant health problems, poverty, lack of education, inadequate family support, and increased risk for domestic violence and child abuse and neglect. Benefits of social support services for young parents include improved knowledge about parenting, enhanced parent-child relationships, increased economic self-sufficiency, and reduction in family violence.
Effective programs are systematically planned, offer a comprehensive selection of services, address child development and health-care needs, are customized to the parent's developmental level, involve extended family members, and promote intergenerational relationships.
Elements of Promising Practice in Teen Fatherhood Programs: Evidence-Based and Evidence-Informed Research Findings on What Works
Bronte-Tinkew, Burkhauser, & Metz (2008)
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Discusses emerging practices and describes ten characteristics of effective teen fatherhood programs based on a research review of evidence-based findings. Includes a description of 18 emerging, promising, and model programs.
Family Support Interventions for Adolescent Parents
Stevens, Nurss, & Hough
Child and Youth Care Forum, 24(5), 1995
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Describes effective family support intervention programs offered through childcare centers used by adolescent parents as they continue their education or vocational training.
Identifying Attendance Correlates for a Teen and Young Adult Parenting Program
McCarthy, Sundby, Merladet, & Luxenberg
Family Relations, 46(2), 1997
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Identifies factors predicting attendance by adolescents and young adults at a parenting skills program.
Infants, Toddlers, and Teen Parents
Zero to Three
Zero to Three, 25(4), 2005
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Addresses the developmental trajectory for children born to teenage parents, protective factors for teen parents and their children, intervention efforts to promote resiliency, and the experiences of infants of teenage parents.
Parent Empowerment Program (PEP)
Pulido & Kory (2001)
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Implementation and outcome evaluations of a neglect prevention program for poor teen mothers that offered home-based family assessments, parenting education sessions, childcare, and aftercare for crisis intervention and referral.
Parenting Youth Support Needs: Implications for Stakeholders (PDF - 89 KB)
Ek
Envision: The Manitoba Journal of Child Welfare, 4(2), 2005
Explores the needs of adolescent parents and evaluates the outcomes of a program that provides educational prenatal groups.
School-Based and School-Linked Programs for Pregnant and Parenting Teens and Their Children (PDF - 131 KB)
Institute for Educational Leadership (1997)
Discussion and recommendations from a conference convened to consider how education and supportive services influence outcomes for pregnant and parenting teens and their children.