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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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Conclusion

What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist To Address Those Challenges? Fact Sheet: Substance Abuse*. Conclusion

Given the serious consequences of substance abuse among young people, researchers have made considerable efforts to understand what factors make young people more or less likely to use drugs and alcohol.
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What Factors Increase or Decrease the Risk of

What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist To Address Those Challenges? Fact Sheet: Substance Abuse*. What Factors Increase or Decrease the Risk of Substance Abuse?

While the proportion of boys using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs has risen and fallen over time, researchers have learned valuable lessons about risk factors — those traits and life experiences that can jeopardize a person’s healthy development — and protective factors — the characteristics and life experiences that can increase a p
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Some Facts about Boys and Substance Abuse

What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist To Address Those Challenges? Fact Sheet: Substance Abuse*. Some Facts about Boys and Substance Abuse

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What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What

What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist To Address Those Challenges? Fact Sheet: Substance Abuse*

David was looking forward to some Friday night fun.   A starter on his high school basketball team, he had practiced hard every evening that week for the big game against a crosstown rival and still had to make time to study for his first period geometry test.  After dinner with his family, he headed over to a party at the house of a schoolmate
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Endnotes

The Evaluation of Abstinence Education Programs Funded Under Title V Section 510: Interim Report . Endnotes

1.  When classrooms or schools are the unit of randomization, the “effective sample size” is substantially lower than would be if students were the unit of randomization.  This is because of the high within-class or within-school correlation (Kish 1965). 2.  This is an issue that was of sufficient concern during the study design that an e
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Appendix A: Technical Workgroup for the

The Evaluation of Abstinence Education Programs Funded Under Title V Section 510: Interim Report . Appendix A: Technical Workgroup for the Evaluation of Title V Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs

Marilyn Benoit, MD (1998–    ) 3033 New Mexico Avenue, NW Apt. 201 Washington, DC  20016 Voice:      (202) 607-3032 Fax:         (202) 363-4621 Email:     bartolom@aol.com
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References

The Evaluation of Abstinence Education Programs Funded Under Title V Section 510: Interim Report . References

Adamek, Raymond J.  “Responsible Social Values Program:  Five-Year Project Final Report.”  Submitted to the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Kent, OH:  Kent State University, March 17, 1993. Bandura, A.  Social Foundations of Thought and Action .  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice-H

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