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Senior Health
Parenting Unit
Mr. Attanasio
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Topics Covered:
1- RealCare Baby Project
2- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
3- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
4- Shaken Baby Syndrome
5- Child Safety
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1- RealCare Baby Project
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RealCare Baby Project Overview:
Why have a RealCare program?
Review of Baby Project Packet
Watch DVD and answer questions
Practice with babies in Demo Mode
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Why Have a RealCare Program?
1. To give teens a realistic 24-hour experience
in caring for an infant in a safe environment
with meaningful evaluation and feedback.
2. To build character, teach responsibility, and
encourage healthy babies, healthy families, and
as a result, healthy communities.
3. To demonstrate the impact babies have on a
person’s lifestyle, free time, extended family
and future.
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On average, a U.S.
teenager becomes
pregnant every minute!
Kost, K., Henshaw, S., & Carlin, L. (2014). U.S. Teenage Pregnancies, Births and Abortions: National and State Trends and Trends by Race and Ethnicity .
Retrieved January 2010, from http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/USTPtrends.pdf.
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Why Have a RealCare Program?
4. To help break the cycle of teenage
pregnancy by demonstrating the
consequences of teen sexual activity and
early parenthood.
5. To provide hands-on education in infant
care skills to help ensure proper care and
handling and reduce the incidence of SIDS,
SBS, and child abuse.
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Why Have a RealCare Program?
6. To increase awareness of the time commitment and
constant, caring attention a baby needs, and the
importance of having these skills before bringing a baby
into the world.
7. To help expectant teen mothers work through
important decisions regarding keeping their babies or
giving them up for adoption.
8. To help at-risk individuals make better choices about
sexual activity, alcohol use and other unhealthy
behaviors that often lead to teen pregnancy, abortion,
premature birth and unhealthy newborns.
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Children of adolescent
mothers are twice as likely
to be abused as those born
to 20- or 21-year-olds.
Hoffman, S.D., By the Numbers: The Public Costs of Adolescent Childbearing. 2006, The National Campaign to
Prevent Teen Pregnancy Washington, DC.
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Why Have a RealCare Program?
9. To create a community of teens that is
better prepared to make decisions about the
timing of parenting that matches their
personal and professional goals.
10. To help students make behavior
decisions based on accurate information
and from first hand experiential learning.
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Program Details
What you need to know:
• Every student gets to pick the date that they will take the
baby out.
• You may cancel and reschedule as you wish. Just know
that the responsibility to schedule your parenting
experience belongs to the student, not the teacher.
• Every student must have a RealCare contract completed
and signed by a parent or guardian, regardless of the
age of the student prior to taking the baby.
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Program Details…continued
What you need to know:
• You must pass the baby project to pass the class
and graduate.
• If you have a failing grade due to mishandling, you will
be given an assignment about child abuse to raise your
grade to the passing level.
• If you would like to redo the project for a new grade, you
can reschedule at the end of the quarter, but that will not
excuse you for doing the project about child abuse.
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Program Details…continued
• Your grade will consist of two separate
categories.
– Your grade on the baby project, using a rubric that will be
discussed in class. (300 pts)
• See grading rubric in Baby Control Center
– Your grade on this portfolio. (200 pts) Losing the portfolio will be
a 20 point penalty.
• Review packet together.
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2- Fetal
Alcohol
Syndrome
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Take pretest: FAS\Pretest.pdf
Look at “Al” and ask students to write down things they notice
about his appearance.
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Note the physical abnormalities:
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Note the physical abnormalities:
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Note the physical abnormalities INSIDE THE SKULL that we
can’t see:
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
When a mom drinks during specific times during pregnancy, it
effects the areas that are being developed during that specific
time. Here are some examples:
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Watch the DVD on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and complete the
questionnaire. FAS\Posttest.pdf
• Review answers together. FAS\Posttest Answers.pdf
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• 60% have trouble with the law
• 50% will be confined in prison, mental
institutions and/or treatment centers
• 35% have alcohol and/or drug problems
• 61% have a disrupted school experience
• 49% exhibit inappropriate sexual behavior
Other: joblessness, homelessness, inability to demonstrate
effective caretaking and parenting, and increase potential
for victimization, need for lifelong supervision
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Video about teens and FAS
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSY-8wGoPs
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3- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
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SIDS
• Read article about SIDS
• Answer questions about SIDS from your handouts.
• Review together.
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SIDS
• Video about teens and FAS
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSY-8wGoPs
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4- Shaken Baby Syndrome
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SBS
• Read article about SBS
• Answer questions about SBS from your handouts.
• Review together.
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SBS
• Video on SBS simulator
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THhFoYk7U40
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Shaken Baby Syndrome
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Of the estimated 3,000 children
diagnosed with Shaken Baby Syndrome
in the United States, 25 percent will die.
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Almost 78 percent of survivors have
neurodevelopmental abnormalities or
sustain permanent lifelong disabilities.
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There is a significant cost for the
continuing medical and special
educational needs of these children
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SBS is rising with the recession. A study
between 2007 and 2009 found a 65
percent increase. Article pictured at right
Barlow KM, Thomas E, Minns RA. The neurological and
neuropsychological outcome of non-accidental head injury. European
Journal Of Paediatric Neurology; 3: 6:A139(Abstract).
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5- Child Safety
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Child Safety Seats
• Read the article about Child Safety Seats (the tether system)
• Answer questions from your handouts.
• Class discussion.
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Safe Car Temperatures
• Turn to notes that cover Hypothermia and Hyperthermia
• Click here:
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