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Cash for College: How Educational Stipends are Going to Help Young Mothers Stay in College and Even the Playing Field

2/10/2021

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By: Diana Farias Heinrich, Communications and Marketing Manager, Teen Success, Inc.
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Cash grants, stimulus checks, microgrants – an influx of cash can mean the difference between survival and ruin for people experiencing poverty. That’s why in the age of COVID-19 we’ve seen two rounds of stimulus and more potentially on the way – cash helps people make ends meet.
 
For the majority of young mothers Teen Success, Inc. supports, educational stipends for post-secondary education are going to be that lifeline. Having low-restrictions and coupled with financial education, educational stipends will reduce the financial barrier that is often the reason young mothers do not pursue college, career, or technical education programs.

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Free downloadable infographic shows the challenges young mothers face to finish their education and how the Teen Success, Inc. program helps.

1/8/2021

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Teen Success, Inc. is building pathways to prosperity for two-generations, young mothers and their children.

As young women of color, Teen Success, Inc. participants experience limited access to healthcare and reproductive health information; trauma in their homes, relationships, and communities; lack of access to safe, affordable childcare and stable housing; all while facing the stigma of having a child in their teens. These factors compound the education gap they are facing.
The number one reason girls drop out of high school is pregnancy. In the United States, only 38% of teen mothers ever graduate high school, and less than 2% of young mothers graduate college by age 30.

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Getting Low-Income Youth Through School During COVID-19

12/10/2020

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By: Diana Farias Heinrich, Communications and Marketing Manager, Teen Success, Inc.

Low-income youth attendance is at its lowest, while affluent communities have the highest student attendance rates

One thing has been made clear by the latest spike in COVID-19 and the subsequent return to shelter-in-place: our youth are not alright.
 
The effects of the pandemic are hitting low-income youth hard: many young people are not in school or working, or are struggling to make ends meet even with essential jobs. This includes foster youth, homeless youth, justice involved youth, and many pregnant and parenting youth.

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Teen Success, Inc.'s Board of Directors Matches Donations up to $65,000

11/30/2020

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Kicking off on #GivingTuesday 2020, Teen Success, Inc.’s Board of Directors invests in breaking the cycle of poverty for young families; All donations matched through the end of 2020 up to $65,000

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MILPITAS, CA, November 30, 2020 – Teen Success, Inc.’s Board of Directors takes a stand for educational equity and young families of color by matching all donations made to Teen Success, Inc. through December 31, 2020. The $65,000 matching campaign kicks off on December 1, in conjunction with #GivingTuesday, a national day of giving where everyone can make a difference.
 
​​Teen Success, Inc. empowers young mothers to graduate high school, pursue post-secondary education, and break the cycle of poverty for themselves and their children.

Click here to download the press release.


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Child Development Practices to Empower Young Parents

11/10/2020

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By: Diana Farias Heinrich, Communications and Marketing Manager, Teen Success, Inc.
​Think back to when your kids were little, would you be able to tell if they were experiencing developmental delays? Many parents don’t know what to look for to indicate if their child’s development is on or off track and as a result, don’t get connected to specialists and resources early on.

Screening for developmental delays happens most often during a child’s pediatric well-checks. Parents fill out a form with questions such as: “Can your child say five words?” and “Can your child stack five blocks?”. Then they discuss anything that may stand out with their doctor.
Teen Success, Inc. Advocates educate program participants in the stages of early child development so that they can approach their doctors with the right questions and thereby make answering these forms more effective.

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How the Childcare Crisis Affects Low-Income Families

10/8/2020

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CHILDCARE ACCESSIBILITY SIGNALS THE WEALTH AND EDUCATION GAP IN CALIFORNIA
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Photo: Lesly and her daughter, Addilyn
By: Diana Farias Heinrich, Communications and Marketing Manager, Teen Success, Inc.
62% of California’s infants and toddlers are eligible for subsidized childcare. Of those eligible, only 14% are actually enrolled in subsidized childcare (Children Now).
 
There is a severe lack of safe, reliable, and affordable childcare throughout California, more so since the pandemic began. A low-income teen with a child must be able to access this resource if they are ever to break the cycle of poverty for their family. They need the time to be able to go to school to invest in their future while simultaneously holding down a job to put food on the table for their children. While childcare is more readily available in high school, through district supported childcare on continuation school campuses, this availability disappears as young mothers transition from high school to post-secondary education.

This issue is exasperated when young mothers are single. Many wait months, even years, on subsidized childcare waitlists, and the majority of these do not accept infants and/or require children to be potty trained. This means that for the first two years of the child’s life, a young mom has to rely on family to help if she is to be able to make any investment in her future beyond high school.

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A Young Parent's Path to Obtaining a Living Wage

9/9/2020

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High school education alone is not enough to earn a living wage.
An educated woman is a powerful woman, but when a woman is also a mother, we also know that her opportunities (or lack thereof) will directly impact her children too.

​We work with young mothers because stigma surrounding teen pregnancy is an additional barrier to obtaining a living wage. We can help them overcome those barriers so they will be able to persist with their education and create an avenue for her child to follow in her footsteps.

​Parenting teens are one of the youth populations at highest risk for not finishing their high school education or pursuing a post-secondary education. Only 38% of young mothers graduate from high school and less than 2% of them complete college by the age of 30.
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In California, those who don’t graduate  from high school earn annually less than half of the amount considered the state’s living wage of $57,096. ​

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Press Release JUL 28: New Silicon Valley Influencers Lead Teen Success, Inc. Board of Directors

7/28/2020

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DOWNLOAD
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
 
Media Contact: Becka Ross | (408) 263-8330 x105 | bross@teensuccess.org
 
New Silicon Valley Influencers Lead Teen Success, Inc. Board of Directors
Silicon Valley influencers and veterans, Ellen Moir and Madanno Bolano, succeed former Apple executive Nancy Heinen as Co-Chairs of Teen Success, Inc.
(MILPITAS, CA) – Teen Success, Inc. announces incoming Board Co-Chairs, Madonna Bolano and Ellen Moir, succeeding Nancy Heinen’s four years of service as Board Chair.

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A philanthropist's action list to support Black Lives Matter

6/10/2020

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(Updated 6-30-20)
We're outraged by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Aubery – but just saying that, it’s simply not enough. To say that we're heartbroken for George’s wife and daughter – it’s not enough. We're grieving their loss and angry for having to do so, but, that's not enough.


We've been fighting for social justice for young mothers and it's time for a reckoning.​

It might seem like educational equity is a different fight than the Black Lives Matter movement, but it isn't. We can't continue to sidestep the fact that ending the cycle of poverty won’t happen without also dismantling the institutions and policies that keep Black communities trapped.

Click read more to find a list of resources and book mark this page, we'll be updating it regularly.

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What will young mothers tell their children about COVID-19?

4/30/2020

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By: Diana Farias Heinrich, Communications and Marketing Manager, Teen Success, Inc.
What story will young mothers tell their children in a decade - when they read about COVID-19 in their history books in middle school and high school?
 
Hopefully, that their community stepped up to help and that their families are better for it.
 
Teen Success, Inc. serves young families across California and Nevada in communities where young parenthood rates remain high (despite the downward trend in teen pregnancy across the nation). Teen pregnancy disproportionately affects young women of color who are living in poverty – which means we’re serving the communities hardest hit by COVID-19, too.

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COVID-19 Response: Serving Young Families Where They're At Now

4/1/2020

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Updated: August 12, 2020

COVID-19 has exasperated the inequities and challenges Teen Success, Inc.'s young families face on a daily basis. The challenges and barriers they were facing as young parents before the health crisis remain, but now they are experiencing all of the additional challenges of the effects of COVID-19. Many of our young moms and their extended families have lost their jobs or are unable to work. We’re working on a daily basis to connect them and their families to critical resources.
They're also experiencing increases in both mental health challenges and parenting stress. Many were already struggling to stay on top of classes and connected to school, which is now proving to be even harder with distance learning. On top of the increasing demand for technology their education requires (but doesn’t provide), they’re also caring for their children full-time because the daycares they counted on at school are closed.

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What It Takes - Young Mothers in Pursuit of Higher Education

1/7/2020

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Lucrecia, Teen Success, Inc. Scholarship Recipient 2019
Navigating the college systems of financial aid, course selection, and applications is challenging for any student, but doing so while also providing for a child creates additional barriers for parenting students. Without support systems to overcome their specific challenges and the needs of their families, young mothers have very little chance of successfully navigating the path to a meaningful degree on their own. Nationally only 2% of young mothers obtain a college degree by the age of 30. Teen Success, Inc. is working to support young mothers on their post-secondary path, while they're also supporting their families.

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The Biggest Challenge to Continuing Her High School Education

12/9/2019

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The biggest challenge I faced when trying to continue my high school education was getting pregnant at 15 years old.
 
I eventually dropped out of high school.


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Calling for Justice for Young Families

8/20/2019

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​This week marks the 3rd anniversary of California Young Parents Day and while changes to Title X are being fought over up and down the judicial system nationwide, young parents are facing a steeper uphill battle to family planning than ever before.
 
ACR 201, the declaration of California Young Parents Day on August 25, states that: 
Pregnant and parenting youth have the right, as all youth, to all support needed to continue with their educational and career goals, including child care, health care, housing assistance, and job training and other economic opportunities
and also declares that:
Pregnant, parenting, and nonparenting youth must have access to culturally relevant and gender-sensitive sexual and reproductive health services and educational, material, economic, and emotional support
Education and reproductive health care are equally important to the success of young families and while government rulings, lawsuits, and appeals around Title X may dominate the headlines today, let’s not forget the young parents who will ultimately suffer or benefit because of decisions made by people far removed from their stories, stories that ACR 201 seeks to bring to life and inform policy decisions.

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Teen Success, Inc. Joins Stand Together Foundation's $10 Million ‘Giving Together’ Initiative

8/19/2019

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National network unites Americans and high-impact nonprofits to break the cycle of poverty; All individual donations of up to $1,000 matched through the end of 2019

MILPITAS, CA, August 25, 2019 – Teen Success, Inc. is proud to announce its participation in Stand Together Foundation’s 'Giving Together' Initiative to raise awareness, inspire action and help people make a difference in communities across the country. 

In honor of California Young Parents Day, August 25 – a day recognizing young parents’ dignity, right to education, and access to vital resources they need to become the best students, parents, and citizens they can be – Teen Success, Inc. reaffirms its commitment to empower young mothers to reach their full potential and is launching a campaign to raise $25,000 by December 31 through individual and matched funds from Stand Together Foundation.

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    Cash for College: How Educational Stipends are Going to Help young Mothers Stay in College

    ​Free Downloadable Infographic of Teen Success, Inc. Program

    Getting Low-Income Youth Through COVID-19
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    Teen Success, Inc.'s Board of Directors Matches Donations up to $65,000

    Child Development Practices to Empower Young Parents 
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