Adolescent Parenting Program

MCS CONNECT Group Mentoring Series

“Achieving Academic Success Through Self Assessment  and Positive Thinking”

Curriculum Integration Workshops at the Adolescent Parenting Program

This school year, we decided to implement a series of group mentoring sessions intended to provide an opportunity for teen parents (participating in the MCS CONNECT mentoring program at Adolescent Parenting) to enhance their academic and personal skills through self examination and assessment, reading, critiquing and journaling.  These sessions focus on providing participants with strategies for setting academic and personal career goals for success. The students and mentors engage in discussions and activities pertaining to classroom achievement, personal conduct, career aspirations and preparation and other pertinent issues that affect their academic and personal successes, after becoming a teen parent.  They learn life skills for self motivation and gratification, through reading and analysis of situations.  Additionally, they learn to journal their feelings, experiences, concerns and challenges.  Their mentors share this experience with them and have follow up discussions during individual mentoring sessions. Summer Owens, CONNECT mentor and author of “Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother” facilitates each session using “ Life After Birth….” curriculum.  The focus of these sessions include topics such as, “Who Am I?”, “Friends”, “How Do I Move on After a Mistake?”, and “Fulfilling Goals”.