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Compendium of School-Based and School-Linked Programs for Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents, February 1999

Programs in Public Schools

Children and Adolescent Parents
Support Self-Sufficiency

Agency: Children and Adolescent Parents Support Self-Sufficiency (CAPSS)
360 Colborne Street
St. Paul, Minnesota 55102
Telephone:
Fax:		 (612) 228–3651
(612) 293–5374
Contact Person: Wanda Miller, Administrator
Annual Budget: $500,000
Primary Funding Source: Department of Health and Human Services

Mission:

Reduce absenteeism, increase school course credits and graduation rates, and improve parenting skills.

Profile:

Since 1973, CAPSS has provided services, including on-site child care, to adolescent parents through a school-based program for students 12 to 21 years old.

Description of Service Model:

The program helps adolescent parents become successful students, self-sufficient adults, and effective parents. Essential components of the program include on-site child care and transportation by school buses to reduce common barriers to attendance, regular monitoring of attendance with conferences if absenteeism occurs, and rewards for good attendance. CAPSS prepares individualized educational plans and assesses students' progress in academics, providing support and advocacy to ensure they achieve credits. The program also offers career-planning services.

CAPSS provides parenting education on an individual basis, in classrooms, and in parenting support groups. Young parents receive support, role modeling, and individual attention when they visit their children in the child care center, and the children receive appropriate developmental care and assessment to facilitate school readiness. Child health assessments are performed by an on-site school nurse who also monitors compliance with state child care licensing laws.

Communication, coordination and collaboration with school staff, child care providers, social services, medical clinics, and other community agencies are essential to the success of the program.

Evaluation Methods:

The program monitors school attendance records, grade reports, graduation records, and the developmental status of infants and toddlers.


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