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- Title: Young, Pregnant, And Underinsured: Growing Demand Calls for Cost-Effective Collaboration Between Health and Social Workers (Practice Forum)
- Author : Robin Rosell, Megan K. Scarborough & Carol M. Lewis
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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Policymakers, public health practitioners, and social workers share a pressing sense of concern about the recent rise in teenage birthrates across the nation. It is well documented that without effective intervention, the repercussions of teenage parenting reach far beyond individuals and families to affect society at large. Negative outcomes include school dropout, strain on public health and welfare systems, low-birthweight babies, increased medical costs, poverty, stunted workforce development, child abuse and neglect, and developmental delays and disabilities among infants and children (Hoffman & Maynard, 2008).With experts projecting future increases in teenage birthrates (Sayegh, Castrucci, Lewis, & Hobbs-Lopez, 2009), it is imperative that communities invest wisely in support programs for adolescent parents. The Tandem Teen Prenatal and Parenting Program was founded in 1998, when a group of nurse practitioners and a social worker at People's Community Clinic in Austin, Texas, recognized that prenatal care alone was insufficient to deal with the complexities of teenage parenting. Grounded in a youth development framework, Tandem operates on the understanding that the challenges associated with teenage parenting are multidimensional and long term in nature and, thus, require a comprehensive continuum of care. The program has evolved into an interagency collaboration that integrates home and school visitation with the medical home model in the provision of medical, mental health, and educational and vocational services to teenagers and their children. At a relatively low cost, Tandem has been effective in improving the health and well-being of teenage parents and their children and has more than halved the national subsequent pregnancy rate of 24 percent among its clients by more than half (Schelar, Franzetta, & Manlove, 2007;Watt, 2008).
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