teen moms

Inglewood Public Library Receives California State Library “STeP” Grant

Sentinel News ServiceDecember 29, 2015

The Inglewood Public Library has received a STeP (Skills for Teen Parents) grant from the California State Library. The STeP program, a statewide project of the California State Library and the Southern California Library Cooperative, has provided funds for the Inglewood Public Library to offer free workshops to pregnant and parenting teenagers. The workshops will be held one evening a week at the Crenshaw-Imperial Branch Library, February 3 to April 6, 2016. Teens must sign up beforehand to attend. Child care for the participants will be provided during the workshops. California teen moms account for 39,000 children born to mothers

National News

Helping Babies By Lifting Up Mothers

Diandra Bolton, Howard University News ServiceSeptember 16, 2015

WASHINGTON – In a small red wooden house across from a wooded area in northeast Washington neighborhood, virtually unnoticed by their neighbors, are people who save and transform lives. There are no doctors. No nurses. No special emergency technicians. But, ask Rochele Norfleet what those people have meant to her. “I was a teen mother a couple years ago and at first I didn’t have any place to go,” said the 21-year-old Capitol Heights mother of two. “I wasn’t in school or anything.” That was before she came to the Healthy Babies Project, those people in that red house.