Pregnant teenagers attend this special class for one or two semesters and then return to their regular program. They participate in their regularly assigned classes plus a parenting class. Day care is available on-site and each student works in the nursery one hour a day. Special effort is made to encourage the teen mother's success in school and her success in parenting. Students must be in the high school age range in order to participate.
Students come to take classes at the center while their child receives free daycare services.
Quincy Conference Annual education conference will be held at Quincy High School with special seminars at the Early Childhood and Family Center and Baldwin Intermediate School. Conference will include keynote speakers from different states and address a variety of topics. A federally funded educational program for poverty level pre-kindergarten children. The overall goal of the program is to bring about a greater degree of social competence in children of low income families. There are four major components in the Head Start program-education, health, parent involvement and social services.