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Pregnant and Parenting Youth Resources
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Chicago Young Parents Program Improves Parenting, Well-being and Education
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago recently released results from its three-year evaluation of a two-generation pilot program for young parents ages 16-24 whose children are enrolled in Head Start or Early Head Start. The Chicago Young Parents Program (CYPP) aims to improve parenting, personal growth and family self-sufficiency through a combination of youth employment services, mentoring and comprehensive Head Start programming. Findings from the final study indicate that CYPP has positive effects on parent-child interactions, young parents’ abilities to regulate emotions, educational attainment, and a sense of social belonging.
Access the final report here: https://www.chapinhall.org/research/cypp-final-report/ |
Brochures for Women, Partners, Families: Depression and Anxiety During and After Pregnancy
The Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) developed two new companion tri-fold brochures, to alert women and their families and friends, to the symptoms and seriousness of depression and anxiety during and after pregnancy, and how to get help/treatment.
These resources may be accessed below:
HRSA published a more informative resource booklet on Depression During & After Pregnancy in English and Spanish which may be accessed here under Related Resources. |
Tech-Based Evaluation of Reproductive Health App Shows Promise
A recent evaluation of a reproductive health app for young women ages 18-20 suggests that tech-based approaches may be an effective way to provide culturally relevant health education to underserved populations. After six weeks, black and Latina young women using Healthy Teen Network’s interactive Pulse app reported receiving information about abstinence, how to say no to sex, and how to talk to partners about sexual health at higher rates than those in the comparison group.
Read about evaluation results here:
https://www.childtrends.org/publications/evaluating-pulse-lessons-online-evaluation-app-based-approach-teen-pregnancy-prevention |
Study Finds Many RHY are Pregnant or Parenting
According to the latest brief from Chapin Hall’s Voices of Youth Count project, among young people who experience homelessness, an estimated 44% of girls and young women, and 18% of boys and young men, are either pregnant or parenting. The brief highlights challenges that pregnant and parenting youth face when seeking housing and services, and makes recommendations for improving access, better coordination between RHY and early childhood providers, and finding ways to preserve family relationships when possible.
Read the full brief here:
https://voicesofyouthcount.org/brief/pregnant-and-parenting-youth-experiencing-homelessness/ |
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The National Campaign’s Birth Control Access Map
The National Campaign (www.thenationalcampaign.org) to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy has an interactive tool that allows people to find where publicly funded clinics are across the country that provide any form of birth control. Here is a brief description, from the website, of what the map shows:
"The Birth Control Access Map depicts the availability of publicly funded clinics in each U.S. county that provide any form of birth control in one view and the full range of methods (using the availability of both the Implant and IUD as a marker) in the other view.
When there are zero publicly funded clinics in a county, the colors reflect the number of women in need of publicly funded contraception who live in those counties, ranging from yellow (fewer women living there) to red (more women living there). When clinics are present in a county, they are represented in shades of blue, with the darkest blue representing “reasonable access,” which is defined as meeting the recommended ratio of clinics/providers to the population that needs to be served in that particular county."
Learn more here: https://powertodecide.org/what-we-do/access/contraceptive-deserts |
Drugwatch: Pregnancy Guide
This online pregnancy guide from Drugwatch shares information on the stages of pregnancy for each month and includes information on breastfeeding, medication risk, recalls, side effects for expecting mothers as well as postpartum wellness.
Learn more here: https://www.drugwatch.com/health/women/pregnancy/ |
Maternity Group Homes and Head Start
In this tip sheet, you will find information for your maternity group home and how it can collaborate with Head Start. It highlights program requirements and basic information regarding Head Start.
Access the tip sheet here: https://yoc.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/Resources/resources%20-%20mgh%20head%20start.pdf |
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The National Campaign (www.thenationalcampaign.org) to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy has many resources that illustrate the need for pregnancy prevention, as well as support for these initiatives. The resource states that support for birth control is broad and deep and almost everyone uses it. Birth control is directly linked to a wide array of benefits to women, men, children, and society, including fewer unplanned pregnancies.
- It is also the case that nearly half (45%) of all pregnancies in the U.S. are reported by women themselves as unplanned.
- The good news is unplanned pregnancy is declining for the first time in decades—the latest data show an 18% decline from 2008 to 2011. However, great disparities remain—women of color, low income women, and women with less education all have higher rates of unplanned pregnancy.
- Unplanned pregnancy is highly preventable and the broad array of contraceptive methods available are widely supported.
Access the resource here:
https://yoc.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/Resources/resources%20-%20everyone%20loves%20birth%20control.pdf |
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