Guiding Girls
by Bruce Felps
YoungLives needs mentors.
The group — adults who work with teenage girls who are mothers or are expecting a child — recently began its fall programming and is looking for adult women who would be willing to spend some time with high school and middle school girls at Woodrow Wilson High School and J.L. Long Middle School.
YoungLives is a Christian ministry to teenage mothers and pregnant girls, and a division of YoungLife.
Anyone with an interest should contact Emily Martin or Becca Eby.
The group also looks to establish chapters for girls at Bryan Adams and Hillcrest high schools, so, hint.
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August 31, 2010 at 11:15 am
There is a program developed by a Colorado professor which matches an unwed mother with a registered nurse during the prenatal period through the time that the infant reaches the age of three.
The RN’s in general take the nurturing and training performed by a mother in a functional home. Key is to insure that the health of the infant is optimized during this most vulnerable period.
The mother is also taught the basics of responsible parenthood and is guided into training essential to gaining self-sufficiency.
For every dollar spent on this program, some $1.80 has been saved in public assistance outlays.
It might make sense for those in charge of the Woodrow program to see if this program might be either implemented there or at least emulated to get these teens back into the mainstreams of life before more enter into the dynasty of public assistance,