Fall '08 - Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo College
Fall '08 - Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo College
 Christina/Ignacio-Solutions
 Keren-Mission
 Lizette-
Statement
Background
 Veronika/Ferny-Needs
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 Mission
Statement
 Research Questions
 Needs Analysis
 Solution Description
Fall '08 - Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo College
Keren
Fall '08 - Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College
 We
will research the impact on teens who
live in a single parent home whether both
parents or just one are involved in the teens
life. We will also research how common
single parent homes are in our community.
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How many teens between the ages of 13-19 live
in a single parent home in our community?
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Do the teens in our community maintain contact
with the parent who is absent?
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Are teens in our community left home alone? If
so, how often and when?
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Did teens in single parent homes feel closer to
their parents before, or after their parent
became single or separated from the other
parent?
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Keren & Lizette
Fall '08 - Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College
 Total
Number of Surveys: 100
 Number
of Spanish Surveys: 5
 Age
Range:
 3 % under 15 years old
 91% between 15 – 20 years old
 2% between 21- 25 years old
 0% between 26 – 30 years old
 2% 30+ years old
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Women 35%
Men 62%
Ethnicity:
94% Latino
3% Other
2% White
0% Asian
0% African - American
Are You Attending School?
93% Yes
3% No
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 Renaissance
High School
 New School High School
 Watsonville High School
 Quetzal High School
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Do you have children?
9% 1 Child
0 % 2-3 Children
0 % 4-6 Children
0% 7+ Children
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How many people live in your home?
6 % 1-2
38% 3-4
48% 5-7
5% 8-10
1% 11+
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85% Are US Citizens
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2% Voted in the last election
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 The
people we conducted our surveys on
were Hispanic/Latino teens, between the
ages of 15-20 years old.
 We wanted to know how common single
parent homes are in our community.
 We found these people in high schools
around Watsonville.
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Out of 200 teens..
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95 are left alone on
weekdays between 38pm
31 are left alone
weeknights from 812pm
70 are left alone on
weekends
The last 4 had no
comment.
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Where do these
teens spend their
unsupervised time?
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80 of them spend their
time at home
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20 of them spend their
time at a relatives home
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85 of them spend their
time in the streets
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15 spend time in
recreation areas.
Veronika & Ferny
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College
 Single
parents & the teens of single parents.
Mostly moms because 52 out of the 83 teens
living in single parent homes are living with
their mom.
 The
community because there are more
teens on the streets.
 Teens
because they are being left alone to
often without adult supervision.
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 Make
more government fee waivers to help
single parents support their children.
 Recreation
centers that will keep teens and
kids out of the streets.
 More
affordable Daycare centers for single
parents.
 More positive communication within the
family.
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 When
single parents are working two jobs to
support their families and the children are
being left alone.
 When less time is spent as a family.
 When
teens are left unsupervised and are
experimenting with drugs/alcohol.
 When
teens are being left alone to take care
of themselves & end up roaming the street.
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 Lack
of communication between parents and
their children.
 Scarcity of after school activities for students.
 Negative influences such as….parents, friends,
gang members, older family members.
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Christina & Ignacio
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College
 To
open more
recreation centers &
more programs like
big brothers & big
sisters.
 More
government
funding’s or fee
Waivers for single
parents.
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 Counseling
for
teens.
 Encourage & train
parents to have
positive
communication with
their children.
 Greater community
awareness/involvem
ent.
Open
Recreation &
more program
centers.
Fee waivers
for kids with
single parents.
Encourage/train
parents to have
positive
communication
with their
children.
Money
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Community
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Time
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 Open
more recreation centers & more
programs like big brothers & big sisters
so that the children could have someone
who is in a stable state of mind to look
up to.
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 Fee
waivers for kids with single
parents, it is important that the
government helps single parents
with financial help to support and
maintain a decent living.
 Fee waivers can also be to help
lower the cost of after school sports.
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 Encourage
parents to have better
communication with they're children, so that
professional help will not be needed. Have
more parent-teacher conferences so parents
can be informed of the kids schooling and
behavior.
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 To
help single parents stop struggling.
 To prevent poverty from growing
 More educated members of society.
 Help maintain structure within all families.
 Reduce the number of gang members
 Keep the number of people who use drugs
from growing.
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 Better
student academic reports
 More family control and stability
 Less gang involvement
 Less use of drugs and alcohol
 More parent and teen communication
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 The
number or children getting involved with
drugs will continue to rise.
 Since the number of single parents is
growing the number of families in poverty
will rise.
 There will be more gang involvement
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