Our Teenage Mothers

PLANE’s work with teen mothers:

Improve mother and child outcomes.
- Increase the mother’s active involvement in her child’s development
- Increase positive bonding
- Decrease parenting stress
- Decrease child abuse and neglect factors
Improve the mother’s long-term social and emotional well-being.
- Improve mental, physical and emotional health
- Increase school engagement
- Increase safe relationships
- Increase job satisfaction
- Increase access to resources; and information access
- Create permanency plans which include safe living arrangements
Increase stable and healthy support systems
- Build stable and healthy connections with family members, friends, or adults
- Increase access to Family Planning Services
- Decrease unstable or unhealthy relationships that put their lives in danger
Improve independent living skills for self-sufficiency
- Make progress toward educational goals
- Secure and maintain employment
- Manage money and meet financial obligation
- Perform activities of daily living
- Secure and maintain safe childcare
- Participate in the community
- Implement planned personal development strategies.
Increase protective factors related to trauma
- Increase resiliency and optimistic world view
- Increase positive coping strategies and implementation
- Identify values of self-efficacy, self-confidence, and self-esteem.

Teenage mothers and PLANE staff after an empowerment training class.

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