The Hartcliffe and Withywood Teenage Parents Project has been delivering its service within the local community since 1991, we have supported hundreds of teenage parents and their children over this time.

The Teenage Parents Project works with young parents aged from 16-25, and their children from 0-4 providing practical, emotional and mentoring support in the BS13 area raising awareness and aspirations through education

Governance of our Organisation:

The project is an incorporated Charity and a Company Limited by Guarantee (founded 2003)

The Management Committee consist of:

Six member’s (teenage parents)
Four professionals representing the wider community which include:
Education,
Youth Service,
Early Years Children’s Centre
Dawn Gibbins (MBE) Business.

Elections are held at our AGM, which is held annually, all previous Management Committee members stand down. This leads to new members having the opportunity to stand. New nominees from interested members wanting to represent on the Management Committee are put forward and 6 are voted on by current members. Currently we have 3 under 20 year olds and 3 under 25 year olds who sit on the Management Committee. This project is for teen parents run by teen parents.

CRB Checks are carried out on:

All staff, volunteers, placement students.

Established Referral System

We have a recognized referral system in place used by Health workers, Midwives, Housing Officers and Connexions etc. Once received contact is made to arrange a home visit, project worker & existing member attends to inform potential user of the services we offer.

We specially devised a card for local GPs to use as hand out, supporting their workload. Young parents can self refer and word of mouth.