278 Healthy Families Healthy Families is a family support program that promotes positive parenting. The program helps first-time mothers and fathers adjust to the challenges of parenting a young child. The Fatherhood Initiative seeks to increase the understanding of fathers about the importance of their emotional and financial support to their children. Fathers focus on learning how to spend quality time with their children, enhance their own job skills and set goals for themselves and their families. The Teen Parent Program provides health, social, and educational support for pregnant or parenting teens The goal is to help teens learn how to provide a safe, stable and loving environment for their child.
Activities focus on helping teens be healthy, successful and self-sufficient.
I AM is a character-based abstnence program that facilitates the development of responsible behaviors among participating teens. The program offers educational activities and classes which promote abstinence until marriage. The curriculum encourages making responsible choices and the development of long term goals. The program encouragesthe involvement of families, teens and young adults through participation in innovative and fun activities. Applicants become eligible to win by offering a written personal statement in support of waiting until after marriage before having children.