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Choices: Volume 3 -- Charting a Positive Future for Teen Parents1

Choices was developed through a team effort of the Department of Home Economics including the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program and the Department of 4-H and Other Youth Programs.2

Choices: Volume 3 -- Charting a Positive Future for Teen Parents (4H HEL 42) is experiential curriculum that is designed to help pregnant and parenting teens chart a more positive future. There are four basic units with several subsections: Focus on Teens, Nutrition, Resource Management and Parenting. Videos (4H HEL 60) serve to support and enhance the curriculum. Video topics include: Shaping Up! Aerobics for Pregnant Teens, Look Who's Eating, Growing Up With Baby, and Speak Out! On Stress.

In EDIS this publication is DLN 4H 170.

The rest of the series:

Choices: Vol I -- Charting a Positive Future for Teen Parents: Leader Notebook 4H HEL 40

Choices: Vol II -- Charting a Positive Future for Teen Parents: Leader Notebook 4H HEL 41

Choices: (Set of Four videos)   4H HEL 60

Visit the 4-H Youth Development Curriculum Web Site for more information on related project materials.

Click here to view a sample of the project.

Footnotes

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This document is 4HHEL42 of the Florida 4-H Youth Development Program, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Printed October, 1996; Reviewed January 2009.

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Publication Contact: Nancy Johnson, 4-H Publication Coordinator, 4-H Youth Development Program, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, 32611.

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other extension publications, contact your county Cooperative Extension service.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Millie Ferrer-Chancy, Interim Dean.