(A supplementary educational program for the pregnant high school age student and school age parent.)

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        Nancy Cooke Teacher                                                             Tom Carlisle, Social Worker
        Palatine High School                                    or ...                    Schaumburg High School
        (847) 755-1735                                                                         (847) 755-4634
        Home: (847) 272-6320                                                              Home: (630) 355-4397

Location and Time

Classes are held during the school year and throughout the summer months at James B. Conant High School, Room 170.

700 East Cougar Trail
Hoffman Estates, Illinois 60194-3699
(Just south of Higgins Road on Plum Grove Road)

Prenatal Classes: For the pregnant adolescent and birth fathers. Mondays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Parenting Classes: For the school age parent. Three Mondays per month, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Parent Groups: For the parents of the students enrolled in either of the above programs. One Monday per month, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Several months during the year, the parenting class meets on Wednesdays from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Please contact us to verify these dates.

Expectations

Students enrolled in the program are expected to attend class regularly and to cover the assigned material.

Students may receive up to one unit of high school credit for the class toward graduation through Continuing Education.

To be eligible, students must be residents of High School District 211, not have graduated from high school, and may or may not be currently enrolled in school.

Birth fathers are encouraged to attend and may receive credit if they are students of District 211 and meet the above requirements.
 

Objectives

To utilize community public health, legal, and medical resources effectively in providing additional consultative, instructional, and health services.

To provide the student with early and continuing prenatal and parenting education, ensuring optimum health of mother and child.

To offer students the opportunity to share mutual concerns and problems and through group counseling obtain needed support and encouragement.

To obtain additional individual counseling for the student, her family, and the father as needed.

To encourage completion of the student's high school education and to explore career options.

Topics Covered

· Legal rights and responsibilities of the pregnant adolescent.

· Prenatal and postnatal care and development of the mother and child.

· Stages of labor and delivery, including hospital tour.

· Contraception, including physical, emotional, religious, and moral issues.

· Financial needs and responsibilities.

· Life goals - emotional, social, and vocational.

· Interpersonal relationships.

· Parenting skills.