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Graduation, Reality, and Dual-Role, Skills-GRADS, a Program for Pregnant and Parenting Teens

Graduation, Reality, and Dual-Role, Skills-GRADS, a Program for Pregnant and Parenting Teens. Heidi Schultz , GRADS Program Specialist, OSPI Calandra Sechrist , Program Supervisor, Equity and Civil Rights, OSPI. Sequoia High School Everett Herald. Career and Technical Education.

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Graduation, Reality, and Dual-Role, Skills-GRADS, a Program for Pregnant and Parenting Teens

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  1. Graduation, Reality, and Dual-Role, Skills-GRADS, a Program for Pregnant and Parenting Teens Heidi Schultz, GRADS Program Specialist, OSPI Calandra Sechrist, Program Supervisor, Equity and Civil Rights, OSPI

  2. Sequoia High SchoolEverett Herald

  3. Career and Technical Education

  4. Released: May 29, 2014

  5. Why Are There Fewer Teenage Pregnancies? http://www.hewlett.org/blog/posts/friday-note-16-and-not-pregnant

  6. Overall only about half (51 percent) of teen mothers get a high school diploma by age 22; compared to 89 percent Of women who didn’t have a teen birth.

  7. Washington Snapshot Teen Birth Rate, Girls 15-19 2011; NUMBER OF TEEN BIRTHS: 5,530 2008; $151 MILLION SPENT ON TEEN CHILDBEARING 2012; 23.4 BIRTHS PER 1,000 GIRLS -8%; CHANGE IN TEEN BIRTH RATE from 2011 -56%; CHANGE IN TEEN BIRTH RATE from peak year 1991

  8. 2012 National Teen Birth Rate by Race/Ethnicity

  9. 2011 WA State; Teen Births by Race/Ethnicity http://thenationalcampaign.org/data/state/washington

  10. WA State VS. National Data

  11. GRADS Program Participants by Race/Ethnicity

  12. Number of GRADS Students/Schools

  13. Age of GRADS Student’s/First Baby

  14. Grade Level-WA GRADS

  15. Societal Concerns

  16. Objectives

  17. GRADS is a Special Program Because…..it Provides:

  18. FACSE Teacher

  19. Curriculum Framework

  20. Curriculum Materials • Power Source Parenting • Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens • Pregnancy 211 • Brain Rules-John Medina • Reality Works Babies • STARS Training/Certificate • MTV’s Teen Mom • Promoting First Relationships

  21. Evaluation and Research • GRADS student Survey • GRADS teacher Survey • GRADS CIP Code in Cedars

  22. Child Care Quality licensed child care is a requirement of all GRADS programs in the State of Washington.

  23. Fathers Risk Factors of a Fatherless child: Poverty Experience violence and or abuse More likely to be involved in the criminal justice system. Substance Abuse Teen Pregnancy

  24. GRADS students count towards your enhanced FTE for your CTE-course • WCCC subsidies • Grants • School and community support

  25. Beliefs are assumptions or convictions you hold as true about something, concept or person based on Values.

  26. GRADS EA Project

  27. EA Grantees Harbor High School-Aberdeen Evergreen HS Moses Lake HS New Horizons HS-Pasco Tri-Tech Skills Center Hudson's Bay HS-Vancouver Crossroads HS-Granite Falls Henderson Bay Alt HS-Gig Harbor South Lake HS-Seattle Snoqualmie Valley Stanton Academy-Yakima Centralia HS Davis HS-Yakima Oakland HS-Yakima Westside HS-Wenatchee

  28. Help Me Grow WA • Free developmental screening using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire-3 (ASQ). • Referrals for further evaluation and early intervention services for those who need them. • Activities to support healthy growth and learning. • Community resources like parenting classes and food banks. • Application assistance for state benefit programs like WIC, Apple Health for Kids and Basic Food/SNAP.

  29. WA State Coalitions • Domestic Violence and • Sexual Assault • Futures Without Violence Safety Card • www.wscadv.org

  30. Understanding the Law

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