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Young Parents Program

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Description

The Young Parents Program aims to provide medical care and health education to inner city teenage parents. The goal of the program is healthy growth and development among children of teenage parents.

This program is implemented by a team that includes physicians, social workers, and a nurse and nurse practitioner. Together, these individuals provide teenage parents and their children with medical care, counseling, and health education. Parents receive lessons on positive parenting skills, attitudes, and behaviors, as well as receive help to complete their educations and secure housing for their families. Teenage health concerns such as HIV/AIDS, mental health issues, sexually transmitted diseases, and substance abuse are also addressed.

Goal / Mission

The goal of the Young Parents Program is to help inner city teenage parents learn positive attitudes, behaviors, and parenting skills so that their children experience healthy growth and development a during their early and critical years.

Results / Accomplishments

One study evaluated the Young Parents Program with 91 intervention participants and 54 controls. A repeated-measures analysis showed that the intervention group experienced greater improvements in their mothering role, more appropriate developmental expectations of their child, improved perception of their childbearing experience, and a reduction in the occurrence of hassles in child and family events.

Currently, the Young Parents Program serves about 250 teenage mothers, 75 teenage fathers, and 300 babies every year.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Children’s Hospital Boston
Primary Contact
Elizabeth R. Woods
Children's Hospital Primary Care Center
300 Longwood Ave.
Hunnewell Building, Ground Floor
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 355-7718
http://www.childrenshospital.org/clinicalservices/...
Topics
Health / Adolescent Health
Community / Social Environment
Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health
Organization(s)
Children’s Hospital Boston
Source
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Date of publication
Sep 2003
Date of implementation
1980
Geographic Type
Urban
Location
Boston, MA
For more details
http://www.ambulatorypediatrics.org/article/S1530-...
Target Audience
Children, Teens

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  1. The program description includes at a minimum: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program implementation steps, and outcomes that have demonstrated program success and/or promise in achieving the program goal in one or more localities.
  2. The results from an evaluation of the program include quantitative measures of improvement in outcome of interest (i.e. increase in voter registration, not just delivery of voter registration drive) and/ or the outcome measure is increased or improved compared to the baseline measurement or the control group but the difference is not statistically significant.