Evaluating School-Based Programming for Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents.

The Children and Adolescent Support and Self-Sufficiency (CAPSS) program serves pregnant and parenting adolescents eligible to attend an urban school district in the Midwest. It employs a Youth Development Framework promoting connections with caring adults. While pregnancy prevention has become a major initiative for schools, programming to help meet the educational needs and social needs of teen-aged mothers has attracted much less attention. This paper provides some early results from an evaluation of a program designed to keep teen-aged mothers in school, to improve their parenting skills, to lessen the likelihood that they will become pregnant again, and to prepare their children for success in school. (Contains 10 references.) (Author) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Evaluating School-Based Programming for Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents by Julie Fenyk Geoffrey Maruyama Katherine Seiden Lorna Pain Ann Hoxie Poster Presented at the 2003 APA Conference in Toronto U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 0 This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy.