Team Education for Adolescent Mothers.

Project TEAM (Team Education for Adolescent Mothers) is a support program designed to counteract the socioeconomic consequences of early childbearing, by developing a model for providing high-quality care services for pregnant adolescents, adolescent parents, their infants, and their extended families. The project has four site locations: Washington High School and the Area Vocational Center, Ogden, Utah; Washoe High School, Reno, Nevada; Shiprock Alternative High School, Shiprock, New Mexico; and Monument Valley, San Juan, and Whitehorse High School at the Southeastern Utah Navajo Reservation. The program's four intervention components include health care, structured group counseling, child development assessments and parenting instruction, and a volunteer role model component. The components are delivered in such a way that the adolescent mother receives intense services during her initial involvement with the program and then less intense services as the adolescent becomes more responsible and is able to function more independently. A program evaluation of the small number of subjects who have completed the program's posttests showed no significant differences between the treatment group and a control group on any of the assessment instruments. (JDD)