Maine Children’s Home program gets new name

WATERVILLE, Maine (WABI) – A program based at Maine Kids’s House is getting a brand new title.

The “Teen Father or mother Training Program” will now be the “Journey Program.”

Since 1974, this system has helped hundreds of younger dad and mom construct a basis of assets, abilities, and help for elevating youngsters at a younger age.

Along with the title change, this system can also be altering to help these of their early twenties.

Program Director Alaina Wolman says this may assist these in a unique age vary navigate the identical challenges because the youngsters they’ve supported over time.

”We simply thought that the Journey Program represented higher what we do in our program and what the contributors are going by means of. All people’s on a parenting journey. All people’s on the life journey, and we simply actually felt like that title was a greater illustration of the place they’re. And, it was a much less stigmatizing. Typically being in a program that’s known as the Teen Father or mother Program actually highlights form of a stigma, and we needed to get away from that,” mentioned Wolman.

Wolman additionally says this may permit them to hold on connections they’ve made with teenage contributors in this system, in addition to new additions.

As an alumna of this system herself, she is aware of how vital that help is.

For extra info on this system, go to their web site.

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