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School-Linked Comprehensive Services for Children and Families - April 1995

Comprehensive Services for School Age Parents Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Who are the collaborators?
The School District of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Department of Education
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Maternal and Child Health
Temple University
Wee Care
Health Federation of Philadelphia
Zeta Phi Beta
National Institute for Parents As Teachers

What is the goal of the project?

To provide an alternative middle and high school educational program for pregnant and parenting teens. Combining both educational and social services, it offers pregnant students small classes, individualized instruction, AGE/GED classes, and a variety of social services. Its objectives are to retain pregnant and parenting students in school, support them until graduation and transition to post-secondary education, insure normal birth weights, provide parenting education, and monitor a timely immunization program for infants.

Who participates in the project?

Any pregnant teen enrolled in a School District of Philadelphia school. Approximately 98 percent are African-Americans with whites and Hispanics making up the remaining 2 percent. The majority come from families below the poverty level. Total program enrollment is approximately 400.

What services are provided?

How are collaborators evaluating their success?

An independent researcher has collected data through observations, document reviews, interviews. The researcher reviewed nationally formed surveys and created a computer-assisted data base for on-site use.

What are the collaborators learning?

Evaluation to date has demonstrated that infants and toddlers connected to the program are fully immunized and that mothers have a greater incidence of normal or better birth weights as compared to general teenage birth statistics. There is a strong suggestion that student retention is greater as compared to the drop-out rates of pregnant students who do not attend.

Contact person

Joyce Robinson
Parent Educator
Comprehensive Services for School-Age Parents
Seltzer Hall, 4th Floor
1700 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19121
(215) 684-5093 (Phone)
(215) 684-5201 (Fax)


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