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Download full textOhio State Univ., Columbus. Vocational Instructional Materials Lab. – 1996
GRADS (Graduation, Reality, and Dual-Role Skills) is an in-school instructional and intervention program for pregnant teens and young parents. Its objectives are to help these students remain in school through graduation, have healthy pregnancies and healthy babies, learn practical parenting and child-development skills, gain an orientation to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Competence, Competency Based Education, Dropout Prevention
Norfolk Public Schools, VA. – 1989
Teenage pregnancy is a nationwide problem that continues to increase in epidemic proportions. GRADS (Graduation, Reality, and Dual-Role Skills) offers a home economics program as well as employability training to adolescent mothers in Norfolk (Virginia) Public Schools. Additional support is given as the pregnant teens and teen mothers strive to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Competency Based Education, Employed Parents, Employment Potential
Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1989
This report contains the proceedings from a conference on the problems of low literacy among single mothers. The seminar involved practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and funders. The report includes an executive summary, six papers grouped according to three topic areas, a seminar agenda, a list of participants, and a 57-item bibliography.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Employment Potential, Functional Literacy
O'Neill, Dave M.; O'Neill, June Ellenoff – 1997
This book presents research results relating to historical trends in the AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) caseload, the personal characteristics and patterns of welfare participation in a nationally representative sample of young women followed over a 13-year period, and an evaluative survey of the effectiveness of past education,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Births to Single Women, Employment Programs, Fatherless Family
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC. – 2003
This sixth annual report provides welfare dependence indicators through 2000, reflecting changes since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in 1996 and highlighting benefits under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), now Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); the Food Stamp program; and Supplement…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Support, Children, Disabilities
Forrest City Public Schools, AR. – 1991
In 1988, the Forrest City Alternative School (Arkansas) began a program to provide care for the preschool children of teen mothers who wanted to obtain their high school diplomas. The children ranged in age from 8 weeks to 3 years in the infant/toddler group and 3-6 years in the child care group. These children were provided with care, preschool…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Child Development Centers
Ooms, Theodora; Owen, Todd – 1991
Meeting highlights and a background briefing report are provided from a policy seminar, one in a series of monthly staff seminars titled "Family Centered Social Policy: The Emerging Agenda." The highlights summarize remarks by three panelists. Alan Hershey describes the Teenage Parent Demonstration in New Jersey and Illinois and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs, Early Parenthood
