Adolescent parents’ experiences intersect two important cross-roads, the transition into adulthood and transition into parenthood. For this reason, SR/SF aims to support pregnant and parenting adolescents in developing skills that will help them achieve their personal, relationship, and parenting goals.
Program facilitators, with support of trained college interns, provide weekly group sessions focused on coparenting and parenting, and healthy relationship within adolescents’ schools. These lessons are supplemented with student support services throughout the year. We also host an annual Summer Academy to offer additional opportunities for empowerment.
Our program uses trauma informed, culturally responsive, positive youth-oriented services aimed to empower the youth in our program. We primarily serve students in the school, during the school day. However, we work with our adolescents to identify the service delivery format that works best for them, including in-person, virtual, and after-school options. También ofrecemos servicios en español.
Each semester, students will gain information using one of two curricula offered at each school during our weekly 1-hour group sessions.
| Love Notes Curriculum | |
|---|---|
| 1. | Relationships Today |
| 2. | Knowing Yourself |
| 3. | My Expectations—My Future |
| 4. | Attractions and Starting Relationships |
| 5. | Principles of Smart Relationships |
| 6. | Is It a Healthy Relationship? |
| 7. | Dangerous Love |
| 8. | Decide, Don't Slide! The Low-Risk Approach to Relationships |
| 9. | What's Communication Got to Do With It? |
| 10. | Communication Challenges and More Skills |
| 11. | Let's Talk About Sex |
| 12. | Let's Plan for Choices |
Love Notes Curriculum (LN) – 12 lessons focus on healthy relationship education. Created by the Dibble Institute.
For more information, visit the Dibble Institute.
| Strong Team Parenting Foundations Curriculum | |
|---|---|
| 1. | Introduction to Team Parenting |
| 2. | Taking Care of Your Parenting Team |
| 3. | Teamwork and Listening Skills |
| 4. | Helping Your Child Grow |
| 5. | Building Positive Foundations |
| 6. | Conflict: Your Body and Your Child |
| 7. | Team Building |
| 8. | Working as a Team |
| 9. | Problem Solving |
| 10. | Team Teaching |
| 11. | Other Team Members |
| 12. | Grandparents |
Strong Team Parenting Foundation (CoP) – 12 lessons focus on parenting and coparenting education. Originally created by Family Foundations (Mark Feinberg) at Penn State University, and a systematic adaptation was completed by SR/SF in 2015.
For more info on the original curriculum, visit Youth.Gov
For more info on the adapted curriculum, visit the Wiley Online Library
Starting in 2022, we will hold a two-day program with interactive workshops focused on college and career readiness, life skills, and civic empowerment. This program will also include a TXST campus tour and resource fair.
If you are interested in becoming involved or in attending the program, contact SRSFprogram@txstate.edu
