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What Are The Eligibility Rules for Maternity

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. What Are The Eligibility Rules for Maternity Group Homes?

Most maternity group home programs share a basic set of eligibility requirements.  In general, residents must be young single women who are in need of housing and are either pregnant or parenting.  This study focuses on programs that serve primarily teenage mothers.   However, in many cases, study programs also serve slightly older mothers, of
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Where Do Maternity Group Home Programs Get

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Where Do Maternity Group Home Programs Get Referrals?

An important issue to consider when examining maternity group home programs is how these programs get their referrals.  In this section, we describe the sources of referrals used by these homes.  We then discuss briefly how the application and referral process works in the programs visited.  
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How Are Large Maternity Group Home Programs

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. How Are Large Maternity Group Home Programs Funded?

Funding is a central issue for any social service program.  Therefore, when examining the operations of maternity group home programs, it is important to consider carefully where their funding comes from and the amount of funding they require to deliver their services.  In this section, we examine the funding sources for the programs in our stud
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How are large maternity group home programs

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. How are large maternity group home programs managed?

We begin our examination of large maternity group home programs by considering how these programs are typically managed.  The seven study programs follow two distinct models of management: (1) “networked programs” consisting of several homes operated by different social service providers and linked through a common funding source; and (2) “
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Chapter 2. The Organization and Target Population

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Chapter 2. The Organization and Target Population of Maternity Group Home Programs

An important first step in understanding how maternity group home programs operate is to examine their organization and target population.  As discussed in Chapter I , this study focuses primarily on large maternity group home programs, usually consisting of multiple homes.  Therefore, the information described in this chapter represents what i
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Endnotes

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

1   In addition, the enactment of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) in 1935 had reduced the need for maternity group homes by providing financial support for single mothers — whether widowed or unwed — and their children (Cooper 2004).
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Overview of this Report

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

The current report discusses the implementation of maternity group home programs in 22 different homes across these seven sites.  This systematic examination should both fill gaps in the existing literature and provide useful information for policymakers and for organizations considering establishing maternity group homes.  The rest of the repor
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Programs Included in This Report

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

We visited maternity group home programs in seven states ( Table I.1 ).   Each of these programs is described briefly below.  Additional detail on each program can be found in Appendix A.
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Study Approach and Methodology

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

This report aims at filling some of the gaps in the past research by systematically examining the implementation of maternity group home programs across a large number of sites.  To do this, we selected interesting maternity group home programs in seven states and conducted site visits to more than 20 different homes.
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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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