The program provides a safe and nurturing environment that fosters personal growth and positive self-development. To enhance social competency skills. To enhance personal self-esteem. To increase cultural and community awareness. Teens engage in a full curriculum of workshops and activities to promote personal growth and wellness.
Teens also take educational, cultural and recreational trips in and around the City of Philadelphia.
The Teen Program serves approximately 25 teens per year and provides 140 days of program service annually. PCEP offers interactive education for homeless mothers and their children to promote the healthy discipline of children, break cycles of family dysfunction, and improve parents' confidence and life management skills. Within two months of enrollment, family background and child-developmental assessments are conducted on children from birth to seven years old. The interactive sessions include playgroup, childcare, reading circles, and therapeutic story group. With guidance and supervision from PCEP staff, mothers learn positive, nurturing and healthfu l ways to interact with their children.