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Causes: Federated Giving Programs, Philanthropy
Mission: To fully transform the lives of teen moms and their children. Our five paths to transformation are: counseling, parenting, financial literacy, job readiness, and ged attainment. Additional services include mentoring and community outreach. Our vision is to break the generational, economic and social impact of teen pregnancy.
Programs: Life skills workshop- teen mothers learn the necessary life skills to be self-sufficient through our 60 units of modular, psycho-educational curriculum. This includes 10 units of parenting, 10 units of financial literacy, 20 units of health and wellness, 15 units of workforce readiness and professional development and 5 units of personal enrichment.
wraparound services (counseling, mentoring)- master level counseling interns provide individual counseling and teen mom groups. Each mom goes through an intake process, development of a treatment plan, and ongoing monitoring of progress. A one on one mentor is provided once a female volunteer is vetted then matched with a teen mom to provide assistance in accomplishing goals. A mentor orientation is held and then a meet your mentee event is held to facilitate the initial meeting of the matched pairs.
ged preparation/tutoring- one on one tutoring with community volunteers to ensure each mom receives individualized preparation to ensure all four test sections of ged (math, science, social studies, language arts) are passed and ged certification is obtained. El centro also provides an instructor to offer preparation assistance on a specific section of ged testing material. In addition, online software is accessible if participants prefer to use the self-paced online resource.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.