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EMPOWERING YOUNG PARENTS
Free resources and services to help you reach your full potential as a parent. We’re here to help!
WHO WE SERVE
- Pregnant or parenting young adults age 16-20
- Must be involved in our Young Adult Services program
- Current or former foster care involvement
WHAT WE DO
- A youth support specialist will assist you with your parenting goals
- Life Skills: communication, personal identity, personal finance, healthy relationships
- Employment: applications, resume building, career readiness
- Education: admissions, financial aid, resources, goal setting
- Housing: resources, tenant rights
- Health & Wellness: mental health resources, health insurance, labor & delivery education
- Parenting: finding safe caregivers, developmental milestones, healthy attachments
Having a mentor is more than seeing someone every 2 weeks. It's a friend. Whenever you feel alone or sad you can always talk to them. When I started the mentoring program I thought it was going to be more rules to tell me what to do. It's not like that though; the mentoring program is fun, helpful, and provides someone I can count on. It's more than a program to me. It's two people becoming friends.
Jasmine, Program Participant
I have been focused on helping youth throughout my career. But, there is something special here, with the one-on-one support and the passion of the team. As a teen youth who struggled, it was the people around me that helped me succeed and create a new life. I see this program as offering that to youth. I jumped in to help, and am so excited about the program being offered.
Sasha, Professor, ASU
I became a navigator because I wanted to help others have the resources that I didn't. Just because I became a young parent, didn't mean I wished for anything different than any other young person. In fact, I do this because I want to help other teen parents have what they need.
Kelley, Outreach Coordinator
It is so important to have people who care about me, not judge me. It makes it so much easier to try.
Parent Member, Phoenix, Arizona