1. Adolescent Family Life Program Lansing
Positive Youth Development (AFLP-PYD)

2. Kids Count in Michigan: 2014 Right Start in Michigan’s Legacy Cities stats Lansing

4. 4 Key Target Areas: Overview
AFLP - focuses on developing Protective Factors, through caring relationships, highlighting strengths, exhibiting positive expectations, and opportunities for youth participation and contribution.
4 Key Target Areas:
Family Wellness: connects teens to housing, transportation, child care services, parenting classes and other resources.
Secondary Education: connect PPT to flexible alternative education, education completion/attainment, job training, financial literacy, and skills training
Maternal/Infant Health: connect PPT to primary care, prenatal care, health literacy, contraceptives, postpartum counseling, inter-conception care
Adult Connectedness: use case management to increase
PPT connection to parent or other positive adult caregiver

5. Youth Empowered Reaching youth Connecting Youth
Individual Life Planning
Youth focused on personal success and family success
Keeping youth connected to a larger vision
Youth Empowered
Reduced Teen Pregnancies
Healthy Birth outcomes
Increased Educational Success
Reduced Risk Taking Behaviors
Increased Financial Wellness
Development and Achievement of Life Goals and Dreams

6. Implementation Plan FY15
Case Management using AFLP-PYD
Networking and Partnership with local Agencies, Organizations, Non-profits, Community Supports
Supplemental programs for skill development
Addressing the unique needs of teen fathers
Build teens’ voices and leadership

7. WE NEED YOU! Collaboration:
Partnering to connect PPT with all community resources
Referrals of PPT Teens
Coordination:
Connecting to make all efforts to support PPT count
Community Impact:
Attend Steering Committee meetings to ID and create new opportunities

8. Stepping Up Together with Teen Parents
Kendra Gibbs
MI-APPP AFLP-PYD
ERESA
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Stepping Up Together with Teen Parents