Teen Parent Mentoring
RHL’s Teen Parent Mentoring project continues to work to integrate marginalised teenage parents back into society whilst encouraging the local community to provide support by pairing the teenagers with trained volunteer mentors, who are parents themselves.
The scheme works with teenage parents at a transitional point in their lives when they need to take on the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood.
The project is delivered as a partnership between RHL and The Source.
BENEFITS
- By increasing the self-confidence, self-esteem and knowledge of the teenage parents, they are empowered to ‘survive and thrive’ within society.
- Some of the young parents have gained the confidence to leave an abusive relationship or find better accommodation;
- Others have engaged in training that will help them to re-enter and engage in education or employment.
- Strong relationships are developed between two different community groups - the mentors and teenage parents.
- This in turns increases understanding and respect within different sections of the community.
- Helps give the young parents a voice so that they can participate more fully in society.
- Volunteer mentors who are parents themselves are recruited and trained by The Source.
- Following training mentors are matched with a teenage mum to provide friendship and practical support.
For more information about all our classes and programmes please contact RHL : 01252 362660
Date this page updated:28th April 2010
