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PCCYFS 2012 Annual Spring Conference
Best Practices for Best Practices for Working with Dependent Working with Dependent
Teenage MothersTeenage Mothers
Presented By:Natalie Bilynsky
Cherenne PeoplesNorthern Home for Children
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Introductions
• Description of Generations I and Generations II
– Population
– Service Description
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Learning Objectives
• Understand the challenges associated with working with dependent teen mothers
• Understand the need for a holistic approach in programming
• Understand the benefits of coordinating services
• Understand the impact that logistical issues can have on services
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Challenges Faced By Teen Mothers
• Adolescence• Attachment• Trauma• Behavioral health challenges• Academic challenges• Lack of supports /
relationships
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Adolescence
• Developmental stages
• (Erik Erikson)
• Brief review of the impact of motherhood on the developmental stages
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Developmental Stages
• Infancy - Trust vs. Mistrust• Early Childhood – Autonomy vs. Shame• Preschool – Initiative vs. Guilt• School Age – industry vs. Inferiority• Adolescence – Identity vs. Role
Confusion• Young Adulthood – Intimacy vs.
Isolation• Middle Adulthood – Generativity vs.
Stagnation• Maturity – Ego Integrity vs. Despair
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Attachment
• Types of Attachment– Secure– Insecure
• Anxious ambivalent• Anxious avoidant• Disorganized
• Impact on Teenage development• Impact on Parenting
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Trauma
• Impact of trauma on adolescent development
• Impact of trauma on motherhood
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Behavioral Health History
• Diagnostic history
• Treatment history
• Family behavioral health history
• Medication History
• Receptiveness to services
• Ability to connect with therapist
• Therapeutic Relationship
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Academic Challenges
Stressors
Missed school
Poor performance
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Lack of support
Father’s family
Father
Other Supports
School community
Neighborhood
Community group
Religious group
Extended family
Family
Young Mother
Youngmother
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Role play
• Taking a holistic approach
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Best Practices (Center For Assessment And Policy Development)
• Flexible quality schooling• Case management and family
support services• Prenatal and reproductive health• Quality child care• Parenting and life skills support• Father Involvement
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School
• What are the educational options?
• Factors to consider in deciding upon options:– History of truancy– Learning Disorder– Academic Level– Age
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Case management
• Leader of the team• Characteristics of a Successful
Case Manager• Characteristics that we have
found to be not effective for Case Managers working with teen mothers
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Reproductive Health• Importance of
reproductive health• Importance of health
services for mother• Importance of health
services for baby/child
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Quality Childcare
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Parenting and life skills support• Clear assessment of life skills
needed• System for development of life-skills
that is not judgmental• Often teens are resistant to
parenting and life skills support
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Father involvement
• How?
• What if the relationship is full of conflict? Or abusive?
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Additional elements
• These are program characteristics that are not noted by the Center for Assessment and Policy Development, that we believe are characteristics of best practice:
• Including Behavioral health• Taking a Holistic approach• Being Strength based/Resiliency
focused
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Behavioral Health
• Outpatient Therapy– Pre-natal and Post-natal
Depression– Connecting with Outpatient
Therapist– Group Therapy– Strategies for developing
therapeutic rapport
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Holistic approach
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Strength Based ~ Resiliency Focused
• All of the world is full of suffering; it is also full of overcoming it. -Helen Keller
• History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced with courage, Need not be lived again.
-Maya Angelou
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Contact Information
• Natalie Bilynsky– Northern Home for Children– 215-482-1423 ex 1272– [email protected]
• Cherenne Peoples– Northern Home for Children– 215-482-1423 ex 1286– [email protected]