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...center of the APP is the Life Skills course. This year-long one-period course is 10 academic credits. It focuses on developing life, child care and parenting skills with units on career education, college planning and literacy. But while there is a set curriculum, Bard explains that they have to be sensitive to what people in the class want to talk about...
...This is a place to vent," she says. Bard herself is a social worker who individually counsels parents and pregnant students on navigating medical and housing issues. She also leads a book group with a focus on stories relating to parenting...
...Rachel, whose two sons are enrolled in the First Steps day care, explains that sometimes Bard will have her come in to talk to women when they are thinking too idealistically...
...While mothers are the majority in the program, Bard notes that if the fathers are still in the school, they do significant outreach to get him to attend as well. While Rachel hadn't heard of the program before, Karen had. "I just knew about the program. It is part of the school," she says...
...mentoring program was added. It had a "goal-oriented purpose," says Bard. "It's become known that one-on-one mentoring with an older person is good for teens at risk." Karen's mentor, an area graduate student training to be a social worker, is the only person outside of school who really helps...