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ERIC Number: ED275777
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Apr
Pages: 32
Abstractor: N/A
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The Challenge of Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens. Lessons from Project Redirection.
Quint, Janet C.; Riccio, James A.
Project Redirection was designed to help pregnant and parenting adolescents progress toward eventual self-sufficiency by linking them with community agencies and volunteers at four geographically and ethnically diverse sites in the United States (in Boston; New York City; Phoenix, Arizona; and Riverside, California). Distinctive features of the program include: (1) a broad scope of services including employability training and parenting and educational counseling; and (2) the inclusion of paid women drawn from the local community to act as primary supports to the teens and help them achieve short-term goals. This monograph opens with a review of the consequences of teenage pregnancy and the Redirection approach for addressing the problems, and then discusses the sites' operational experiences. Participation in Project Redirection resulted in some short-term improvements in most subgroups and for most outcomes. By the end of the study, however, when teens were out of the program, differences between the experimental and comparison groups had largely disappeared, except for certain subgroups. The report concludes with the following lessons: (1) reliance on the brokerage model means depending on the services available in the community; (2) the longer teens stayed in the program the better they did, so no maximum length should be established; and (3) younger mothers need a greater mix of, and different, services than older mothers. (LHW)
Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., Three Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016 ($8.00).
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
Sponsor: Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs.; Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
Authoring Institution: Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., New York, NY.
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