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Background on Maternity Group Homes

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Background on Maternity Group Homes

Maternity group homes are a potential solution to this housing issue, and possibly to other challenges facing teen parents.  Maternity group homes can offer an intensive package of services to meet the short- and longer-term needs of pregnant and parenting teens.  In the short term, these homes provide a secure living environment with adult supe
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The Consequences of Teenage Parenthood

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. The Consequences of Teenage Parenthood

Although the rates of pregnancy among teenagers have fallen steadily throughout the past decade, teenage pregnancy and parenthood remain serious problems in the United States.  More than 800,000 teenagers become pregnant each year, and about a third of all young women experience a pregnancy before age 20 (Henshaw 2004; National Campaign to Preven
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Chapter 1. Introduction

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Chapter 1. Introduction

Maternity group homes offer an innovative and intensive approach to addressing the needs of an extremely vulnerable population — teenage mothers and their children who have no other suitable place to live.  Interest in maternity group homes has increased in recent years, due in part to recent welfare reform rules that require minor parents to
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Recommendations for Further Research

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Recommendations for Further Research

By systematically examining the implementation of maternity group home programs in 22 different homes, this report fills some of the gaps in the existing literature. However, much remains to be learned about the operation and effectiveness of maternity group homes. For one thing, this study examined only 7 of the more than 100 maternity group home
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Key Findings

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Key Findings

Management.   Maternity group homes are often operated by larger organizations with broader social service missions. In some cases, a single parent organization — such as St. Andre Home, Inc. in Maine or Friends of Youth in Washington — operates multiple maternity group homes. In addition, some large maternity group home programs have an
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Methodology and Research Questions

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Methodology and Research Questions

This study examines maternity group home programs in seven states. In this study, a maternity group home is defined as a residential program providing substantial supervision and other services primarily to pregnant and/or parenting teenagers . Because one main goal of the current study is to assess the feasibility of conducting a more rigorous e
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Research Summary

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Research Summary

Maternity group homes offer an innovative and intensive approach to addressing the needs of an extremely vulnerable population — teenage mothers and their children who have no other suitable place to live. Interest in these homes has increased in recent years, due in part to recent welfare reform rules that require minor parents to live in an a
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Recommendations for Further Research

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Recommendations for Further Research

By systematically examining the implementation of maternity group home programs in 22 different homes, this report fills some of the gaps in the existing literature.  However, much remains to be learned about the operation and effectiveness of maternity group homes.  For one thing, this study examined only 7 of the more than 100 maternity group
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Key Findings

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Key Findings

Management. Maternity group homes are often operated by larger organizations with broader social service missions.  In some cases, a single parent organization — such as St. Andre Home, Inc. in Maine or Friends of Youth in Washington — operates multiple maternity group homes.
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Methodology and Research questions

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Methodology and Research questions

This study examines maternity group home programs in seven states.  In this study, a maternity group home is defined as a residential program providing substantial supervision and other services primarily to pregnant and/or parenting teenagers.  Because one main goal of the current study is to assess the feasibility of conducting a more rigorous
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Executive Summary

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Executive Summary

Maternity group homes offer an innovative and intensive approach to addressing the needs of an extremely vulnerable population — teenage mothers and their children who have no other suitable place to live.  Interest in these homes has increased in recent years, due in part to recent welfare reform rules that require minor parents to live in an
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Acknowledgements

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Acknowledgements

This report, which presents implementation lessons learned from visits to several maternity group home programs, has benefited from the efforts and contributions of many people.  Appreciation goes first of all to efforts of people in the sites who are working hard to implement maternity group home programs.  Many of these individuals also played
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The Implementation of Maternity Group Home

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting

Prepared by: Lara K. Hulsey, Robert G. Wood, and Anu Rangarajan Mathematica Policy Research April 22, 2005 ASPE Project Officer: Brenda Benesch Contract No: 233-02-0086
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Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs:

Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting

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Implementing Welfare Reform Requirements for

Implementing Welfare Reform Requirements for Teenage Parents: Lessons from Experience in Four States

by Robert G. Wood and John Burghardt Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation  
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Exploring Community Responses to Statutory Rape

Exploring Community Responses to Statutory Rape

This report summarizes nine case studies by The Lewin Group that explore how states and communities are responding to statutory rape. Exploratory site visits suggest that addressing and preventing these unequal partnerships is difficult to accomplish by any single program or governmental agency. Instead, a range of service providers and governmen
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Marriage Measures Guide of State-level Statistics

Marriage Measures Guide of State-level Statistics

Drawing on data from several sources, the Marriage Measures Guide provides policymakers and program operators with a broad range of state-level statistical information they can use to better assess the characteristics and needs of their state populations, identify high-priority target populations, and make informed decisions about the design and i
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Emerging Issues in Paternity Establishment

Emerging Issues in Paternity Establishment

This report summarizes the discussion at the Emerging Issues in Paternity Disestablishment Expert Symposium convened by ASPE in January 2006 as part of a project that explored how paternity disestablishment may impact child support enforcement and child welfare policies and practice, the broader social context of best interest of the child and fai
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Impacts of the Heritage Keepers® Life Skills

Impacts of the Heritage Keepers® Life Skills Education Component

This report addresses one particular model for school-based abstinence education: a voluntary, character-based program — Life Skills Education — designed to enhance a mandatory core abstinence education component of the (Title V-funded) Heritage Keepers ® Program serving middle and high school youth in Edgefield, South Carolina. The study
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Marital and Unmarried Births to Men: Complex

Marital and Unmarried Births to Men: Complex Patterns of Fatherhood Evidence from the National Survey of Family Growth, 2002

This ASPE research brief suggests that for most men, fatherhood is restricted to marriage. A significant fraction of men, however, have complex fertility patterns including un-married births, but also mixtures of marital, cohabiting, and single births. A man's pattern of births is related to a wide range of social and economic circumstances. Impor
From: Marital and Unmarried Births to Men: Complex Patterns of Fatherhood, Evidence from the National Survey of Family Growth, 2002

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