TEENAGE PARENT DEMONSTRATION

Report on Barriers to Self-Sufficiency Among Teenage Mothers,
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This Executive Summary was prepared by Rebecca Maynard based on a report by Denise Polit.  Funding for this project was provided by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under contract HHS-100-86-0045.  This report does not necessarily represent the official opinion or policy of the Department of Health and Human Services.  The results of this study and the views expressed are solely those of the authors.

Submitted to:

Project Officer:  Reuben Snipper (reuben.snipper@hhs.gov), Ph.D.

Submitted by:

Project Director:  Rebecca A. Maynard, Ph.D.

Contract No.:  HHS-100-86-0045
MPR Reference No.:  7700-925

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many people contributed to the successful completion of this study.  Dr. Ellen Kisker and Ms. Rhoda Cohen participated in the design of the overall study.  They contributed enormously to the information gathering -- including selecting and tracking the sample, recruiting and training interviewers, and conducting focus groups and case conferences.  Both also co-authored a preliminary report on barriers to self-sufficiency among teenage parents, based on an initial round of focus groups.  Kathy Abbott, Teen Progress supervisor in Camden, Melba McCarty, Director of Project Advance in Chicago, and Yvonne Johnson, Teen Progress supervisor in Newark, were extremely helpful in identifying and recruiting participants for the focus groups, helping with logistical arrangements for the meetings, and in organizing the case conferences.  The case managers in all three sites generously gave their time to participate in conferences to review, in depth, the case histories of a sample of their cases.  Dr. Reuben Snipper, the federal project office for the evaluation, and Nancye Campbell and Judith Reich, federal project officers for the demonstration, provided valuable ongoing support for this study, including providing thoughtful and timely review of design plans and draft reports.  Dr. Rebecca Maynard, project director for the overall evaluation of the Teenage Parent Demonstration, provided overall guidance throughout the study design and implementation and played a critical role in broadening the data collection efforts to include the case conference component.  Finally, this study was critically dependent on the teenage parents who so generously gave their time to participate in the focus groups and in-depth interviews.

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