Teen Parenting Program

Program Objectives
Provide a program designed to improve school attendance, increase graduation rates and enhance the parenting skills of students, both male and female, who are pregnant or parenting and enrolling in Denton Independent School District.

Services Provided

• Case management and service coordination
• Individual and group counseling
• Crisis intervention
• Instruction related to child development, parenting, and home and family living
• Assistance in obtaining resources from community and government agencies, including health services
• Homebound during complications of pregnancy and following the birth of a baby

Pregnant and parenting teens have unique needs and challenges. However, it is the expectation of our school district and this program that our students attend school regularly and make progress in their classes to retain transportation and childcare.

Contacts 

Martha Valles
Social Worker
940-369-2027 or 940-369-1245
Serves Guyer and Denton High Schools; Calhoun, Crownover, Harpool and McMath middle schools; and Davis School DAEP