Children, Youth & Family Division
Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Program (TAPP)
A Program of Family Service Agency of San Francisco
2730 Bryant Street 2nd. Floor San Francisco CA 94110
(415) 695-8300 Fax (415) 824-2416
Family Service Agency of San Francisco’s Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting
Program (TAPP) began providing services in 1981, as a federal demonstration site
for the Adolescent Family Life Program/Care Projects. Based upon the
demonstration project’s positive outcomes of reduced low birth weights,
improved retention and/or reenrollment in school, and the reduction on
unwanted repeat births, California legislation was passed to create its own
Adolescent Family Life Program.
TAPP provides comprehensive case management to help ensure that expectant
and parenting families up to age 19 have access to all available health,
education, and social services for which they are eligible.
TAPP over time has systematically structured its wrap around service
programming, which has evolved into the Young Family Resource Center (YFRC).
In 2006, the YFRC formally opened its doors and now houses all teen/young
adult family programming, including the TAPP case management AFLP
services, delivering comprehensive, intensive case management through the
YFRC.
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TAPP’s Young Family Resource Center (YFRC)
Our mission is to sustain the YFRC as San Francisco’s premier Teen and Young
Adult Family Support programming that targets teen and young adult- headed
families. Through a Young Parent Peer Educator model of management,
administration and evaluation, the YFRC is a model of family support and youth
development principles.
The Young Family Resource Center (YFRC) is a population-focused, peer-directed,
peer-focused Family Resource Center targeted to teen and young adult parents,
their children, and their families. The YFRC has now been fully operational for four
years as an expectant and parenting teen/young adult target population FRC.
Integrating a youth development model, peer-to-peer service delivery, and
wraparound resources, the YFRC serves citywide and offers a network of support
services, education, and child-development information for teen and young adult
parents up to age 24 throughout San Francisco. Under that umbrella, the Teenage
Pregnancy and Parenting Program (TAPP) provides comprehensive case
management services for expectant and parenting teens up to age 20 and
ensures that young parents and their children have access to all available health,
education, and social services for which they are eligible.
The TAPP and YFRC programs serve over 200 pregnant and/or parenting
teens/young adults and their children annually.
Other FRC services include information and referral, basic needs assistance, family
events, childcare, GED classes, peer educator hours, special interest program
classes (turning heads sewing and fashion design), and outreach. Our program
blends local funding with the statewide funding aimed at improving the outcomes
of teenage parents in both school and raising their children.
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The Centering Pregnancy:
This evidence-based, national model of prenatal care is provided at the YFRC, in
partnership with UCSF Nurse-Midwives of San Francisco General Hospital; the
curriculum addresses prenatal issues related to mental health through three
components: assessment, education, and support.
STEP and Triple P’s Parenting Education
Parenting Education
The STEP parenting program is a seven-session planned training curriculum that
provides valuable tools, which improve communication among family members,
and lessens conflict. This past year we were able to deliver parenting curricula in
Spanish and piloted it in parenting workshops at the YFRC; it was an enormous
success. Triple Ps, Level II and III is our newest Evidence-Based curriculum for oneto-one with parents and/or developmental childcare staff.
Child Health via Child Development:
The TAPP Child Development Specialist provides education in the areas of
Breastfeeding as an integral part of the overall curricula, Infant Massage, through
once a week classes are conducted in the HDC. There is also a Hilltop School
Well-Baby Care component, provided by the Hilltop childcare Site Supervisor,
who provides a few days a week do a new-born well-baby class
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Nutrition Education
NUTRITION EDUCATION
The TAPP Nutritionist provides Individual Assessments (prenatal, prenatal WIC,
Prenatal Follow-up, Breastfeeding Counseling, Formula Feeding Counseling,
Postpartum WIC appointments, post partum weight loss, Infant Feeding and
Toddler Feeding.
Nutrition classes and/or workshops are provided by the CY&F Division’s Nutritionist
for over 25 years. Services are provided through two venues: the on-site Hilltop
School and at the YFRC. At Hilltop, provides classes of a Prenatal Class, Hilltop
Infant Feeding Class, and a Weight loss Class. YFRC services are provided one-toone and through workshops. Services at the YFRC include Individual Assessments
(prenatal, prenatal WIC, Prenatal Follow-up, Breastfeeding Counseling, Formula
Feeding Counseling, Postpartum WIC appointments, post partum weight loss,
Infant Feeding and Toddler Feeding.
Young Teen Parent Program – @ Hilltop School
CHILD DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION
The Young Teen-Parent program provides targeted developmental parenting
education and related activities. This school-based program provides intensive
daily support. The Teen Parent Child Development Services Program provides
developmental education, assessment, counseling, and practicum activities to
promote positive developmental parenting for pregnant girls, young fathers-tobe, and parenting teens of both sexes.
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Read Aloud Program
School Readiness for the Child(ren). The Read Aloud project provides access to
all the books – to families and to case managers -In the YFRC library. During visits
we usually model reading to children. Case managers and clients use the
resource area when they are looking for specific books, such as potty training,
child development, baby play and activities; books are taken on our home visits
and we try to include them in our outreach and intake packets/interviews.
Parents Creating Together, a First FIVE Parent Action Grant
These grants from the San Francisco’s First FIVE department are developed,
written, managed and monitored by the parents themselves. This program is
designed to provide quality activities between the parent and child and the
space to do so and to encourage peer support between teen parents. Art
activities are a primary venue for service delivery during this first year. The
Mother’s Day Event, under this grant, was held at a nearby park, families and
their extended members enjoyed peer support writ large. Overall, this group
provides an opportunity for the Peer Parents to model positive parenting and it
provides a forum to provide this education in forms of communication they know
will not offend their peers. We have recently been informed that we were
awarded a second year of funding!
Teen Resources to Achieve Positive Practices (T-RAPP)
In T-RAPP, our primary young adult/teen parent peer educator model program is
the teen-parents provide each other with peer support, taking on leadership roles
in conjunction with the other clusters and acting as outreach workers. The
program includes four components: peer counseling, peer education,
community education and teen peer groups.
Services include classroom education; school and community presentations at
youth and family fairs/forums; one-to-one education; peer educator support
groups; and counseling As the YFRC interns develop skills and professionalism, the
T-RAPP program becomes a “feeder” for the YFRC, which utilizes peer educators,
often through rotations, in other capacities – administrative interns, child
development interns, etc. – in cases a stipend internship.
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One of the most positive outcomes of our Teen Peer Educator model is the
ability to move a peer educator intern into work.
T-RAPP partners with SF Department of Public Health and Mission Graduates, Inc.
for Teen Mother Peer Education within and without the SFUSD in a number of
interventions through their funding with the State Office of Family Planning.
Vocational Services/REACH Program
Realizing Employment And Creating Hope (REACH)
Our REACH program integrates with our growing Family Economic Success efforts.
We utilize Workforce Investment Funds youth funds and foundation support to
encourage and facilitate family self-sufficiency for pregnant or parenting young
people served by the YFRC Our overarching goal of the REACH vocational
services program are to assist teen parent headed families to achieve Family
Economic Success (FES). FES, generally, is the ability of families to secure the
financial resources to meet their needs and achieve their financial goals for
themselves and for their children within one or two generations. This includes the
goal of increasing families’ incomes. REACH Program objectives include (1) job
skills education, (2) providing job skills development through hands-on internships
and (3) promoting job skills development through gainful employment.
GED Programming
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
The GED Program courses are offered in both English and Spanish, providing an
alternative education program integrated on site under the YFRC. Providing
services in Spanish fills a unique, increasing need for teen parents more
comfortable with GED services in Spanish. Indeed, the YFRC is only one of two
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) sites citywide that provides GED/Alternative
education integrated on-site with the WIA program.
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