Serving Teen Parents: From Literacy to Life Skills

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A comprehensive guide to working with teen parents and their children that provides practical program ideas for successful school and public library program development, implementation, and evaluation. Teen parents and their children represent an underserved, high-need population in many communities. Libraries have the potential to significantly influence the quality of life for teen parent families by providing free access to information and resources, developing specific programs, and serving as a safe, public learning environment. Serving Teen Parents: From Literacy to Life Skills helps library staff support teen parents as their children's first teachers, positively affecting two generations at once. The authors explain how to successfully communicate with this group and build upon their competencies and strengths. They offer best practices, professional anecdotes, and step-by-step direction on connecting with teen parents, collaborating with community partners, locating funding options, and implementing successful programs. This invaluable guide is the most comprehensive resource currently available that directly addresses the needs of librarians serving the teen-parent demographic.

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This is a very thorough overview of creating library services and programs for teen parents. . . .This would be a valuable book for librarians who want to start outreach to teen parents because it is so detailed. The authors are obviously very enthusiastic and committed to providing these services. * Library Journal *

Author Bio

Ellin Klor is youth services and family literacy librarian at the Santa Clara City Library, Santa Clara, CA. Sarah Lapin is senior community program specialist at the San Mateo County Library, San Mateo, CA.