An important component of the project, the daycare center ensures that the students' children are being cared for while they attend class, study, and participate in campus activities. Program participants receive career, academic, and personal counseling and attend workshops on housing, parenting, education, nutrition, and health. Each semester, mothers also complete community service activities. For example, the student mothers served as mentors to elementary and middle school girls enrolled in the Denmark Public Schools during the spring semester. Seven of the women were recognized as honor students for the academic year and in May 1999, the first mother graduated with honors and a major in biology.
Participants pay the same tuition as other students.
Teenage mothers at area high schools are the main source of recruits. Training Events Community Connections has added a handy Conference Calendar to its Web site. The online calendar lists hundreds of local and national training events of interest to housing and community development professionals. The calendar is searchable by month, category, and event location. It includes the same events as the Calendar of Housing, Community and Economic Development Trainings and Conferences published monthly by Community Connections.