New Moms’ Community Outreach program provides comprehensive, individualized service planning with home-based case management visits and mentoring; advocacy for mainstream resources; life skills training; and crisis interventionfor moms (ages 13-21) and children who are already homeless or at-risk for homelessness because of unstable living situations due to poverty and abuse.
Teen families in our Community Outreach program are also provided with a Home Visitor trained through the Ounce of Prevention Fund’s nationally recognized Parents Too Soon Program. Home visitors provide weekly parent support groups, intensive home-based parent education and mentoring, and developmental screening to ensure children are achieving appropriate milestones.
New Moms steps in with our clients
to meet them at the crisis point in their lives
by taking care of their immediate needs for shelter, food, and clothing. Once these basics are met, we afford our clients
the opportunity to grow in a highly structured environment
in the areas of education, employment, self- sufficiency, parenting, and life skills. This “one stop shopping” approach to service provision that New Moms has taken for two and a half decades
is the very model that the Homeless Youth Task Group
of the Chicago Continuum of Care recommended in a 2005 report addressing service recommendations for homeless youth.
Outcomes:
In 2007, New Moms served 249 teen moms and children through Community Outreach.
