• Supports expectant and parenting teen mothers.

• Builds confidence in pregnancy, motherhood, and child development.

• Provides emotional support, practical parenting education, and community resources.

• Helps young mothers balance parenting, education, employment, relationships, and self-care.

• Encourages healthy attachment and responsive caregiving between mothers and children.

• Strengthens communication, co-parenting, decision-making, and family relationships.

• Life Skills

The Mommie & Me Program supports expectant and parenting teen mothers as they prepare for and adjust to motherhood. The program provides a caring space where young mothers can ask questions, receive encouragement, strengthen their parenting abilities, and build positive relationships with their children.

No question is too small or too difficult. Participants may ask about pregnancy, feeding, bathing, hair care, toilet training, sleep routines, playtime, communication, discipline, child safety, healthy relationships, education, employment, finances, dating, and self-care.

The program helps young mothers:

• ▸ Establish and strengthen relationships with their children
  ▸ Parent with increased confidence, competence, and patience
  ▸ Understand pregnancy, childbirth, child development, and safety
  ▸ Build healthy emotional attachments with their children
  ▸ Learn practical parenting activities they can use immediately
  ▸ Balance motherhood, school, employment, relationships, and personal goals
  ▸ Communicate effectively with their child’s father and other caregivers
  ▸ Develop healthy boundaries and positive co-parenting relationships
  ▸ Recognize the importance of mental health and self-care
  ▸ Identify and access community resources and supportive services
  ▸ Continue pursuing their education, employment, and future goals

• Supports expectant and parenting teen fathers.

• Builds confidence in fatherhood, child development, and responsible parenting.

• Provides fathering skills, emotional support, practical education, and community resources.

• Helps young fathers overcome barriers that may prevent them from becoming actively involved in their children’s lives.

• Encourages healthy attachment and consistent, responsible involvement between fathers and children.

• Strengthens communication with the child’s mother, co-parenting, decision-making, and family relationships.

• Life Skills

The Daddy & Me Program is a responsible-fatherhood program that supports expectant and parenting teen fathers and other father figures. The program helps participants address barriers that may affect their ability to be consistently and positively involved in their children’s lives.

Many young fathers feel alienated, overlooked, or judged by their families, peers, schools, and communities. Daddy & Me gives them a place where they can ask questions, receive honest answers, learn from other fathers, and develop the skills needed to become responsible, nurturing, and actively involved parents.

No question is too small or too difficult. Fathers may ask about hair care, bathing, toilet training, playtime, communication, patience, discipline, child development, household responsibilities, dating, time management, employment, and financial responsibilities.

The program helps fathers:

▸ Establish, strengthen, or repair relationships with their children
▸ Parent with increased confidence, competence, and consistency
▸ Understand child development, health, and safety
▸ Learn practical parenting activities they can use immediately
▸ Develop healthy emotional attachments with their children
▸ Communicate respectfully with their child’s mother
▸ Become actively involved in their children’s education and activities
▸ Balance parenting, school, employment, and family responsibilities
▸ Understand that expressing emotions is part of healthy masculinity
▸ Overcome personal and practical barriers to responsible fatherhood
▸ Build a positive vision for themselves as fathers

Program Topics

Both programs address the emotional and practical responsibilities of parenting, including:

• Creating a positive vision for parenthood
  

• Pregnancy and preparation for childbirth
  

• Infant care and child safety
  

• Child growth and developmental milestones

• Early childhood brain development

• Building healthy parent-child attachments

• Communication and active listening

• Positive discipline and age-appropriate expectations

• Emotional expression and regulation

• Managing toxic stress

• Substance-use prevention and recovery support

• Healthy relationships and dating

• Co-parenting and conflict resolution

• Domestic-violence awareness and healthy boundaries

• Balancing education, employment, parenting, and family life

• Time management and household responsibilities

• Financial responsibility and family planning

• Becoming involved in children’s schools and activities

• Building a healthy support system

• Accessing health care and community resources

Supporting Teen Parents

The Mommie & Me and Daddy & Me programs support teen mothers and fathers as they balance parenting, education, employment, relationships, health, and their own transition into adulthood.

Teen parents often face the unique challenge of raising a child while still receiving parenting, guidance, and support from adults in their own lives. Our programs provide a safe, encouraging environment where teen parents can strengthen their parenting skills, achieve personal goals, care for their physical and emotional well-being, and build a stable future for themselves and their children.

In an interactive and supportive group environment, participants will:

• Develop a plan to remain in school, recover missing credits, graduate, or earn a GED

• Receive support with college, vocational training, and career planning

• Learn job-readiness skills, including completing applications, creating résumés, preparing for interviews, and maintaining employment

• Strengthen practical parenting skills and understand their child’s developmental needs

• Develop social-emotional skills, including communication, empathy, self-awareness, emotional regulation, coping, and healthy problem-solving

• Learn how to balance school, employment, parenting, friendships, and personal responsibilities

• Explore the experience of parenting a child while still being parented or supported by their own family

• Improve communication with parents, guardians, caregivers, and other supportive adults

• Develop healthy dating practices, personal boundaries, and relationship-safety skills

• Learn respectful, child-focused co-parenting and shared-parenting strategies

• Manage disagreements with the child’s other parent without placing the child in the middle

• Receive education about postpartum recovery, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, stress, and other emotional changes that may occur after childbirth

• Learn how and when to seek help for postpartum mental health concerns, including urgent warning signs

• Receive support accessing prenatal, postpartum, primary, reproductive, pediatric, dental, and behavioral health care

• Learn the importance of attending medical appointments, following treatment recommendations, understanding medications, and asking health care providers questions

• Build confidence, healthy decision-making, and independent-living skills

• Connect with child care, housing, nutrition, health care, education, employment, and community resources

• Create personal, educational, parenting, health, and financial goals for a stronger future

Young Parents. Healthy Families. Stronger Skills. Brighter Futures for Two Generations.

After participating in the Mommie & Me or Daddy & Me program, teen parents may experience:

• Stronger, healthier, and more loving relationships with their children

• Greater confidence in their roles as young mothers and fathers

• Improved skills in feeding, bathing, comforting, supervising, teaching, and caring for their children

• A better understanding of child development, behavior, safety, and emotional needs

• Increased use of positive, age-appropriate discipline and parenting practices

• Stronger communication and emotional-regulation skills

• Improved ability to manage parenting responsibilities while still being parented, guided, or supported by adults

• Better communication with their own parents, guardians, caregivers, and other supportive adults

• Increased ability to balance parenting, school, work, friendships, dating, and personal responsibilities

• Greater motivation to remain in school, graduate, earn a GED, attend college, or complete vocational training

• Increased preparation for finding and maintaining employment

• Healthier dating relationships, personal boundaries, and relationship-safety skills

• Stronger child-focused communication and co-parenting skills

• Improved ability to resolve disagreements without placing the child in the middle

• Greater awareness of postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, stress, and emotional changes following childbirth

• Increased access to prenatal, postpartum, primary, reproductive, pediatric, dental, and behavioral health care

• Better stress-management, decision-making, time-management, and problem-solving skills

• Increased ability to avoid alcohol, drugs, unsafe relationships, and other behaviors that could interfere with parenting or personal goals

• Stronger connections to child care, housing, nutrition, transportation, education, employment, health care, and community resources

• Clearer educational, employment, parenting, health, relationship, and financial goals

• Greater confidence in creating a safe, healthy, and stable future for themselves and their children

Supporting Teen Mommies and Daddies as They Learn, Grow, Parent, and Build Brighter Futures for Two Generations.