This document summarizes the Cal-Learn program, which serves pregnant and parenting teens in California. It describes the organizational structure of the program, the population it serves, its mission to promote child safety and family well-being, and the services and incentives it provides like parenting classes, case management, and school attendance requirements to help teens graduate high school. The summary emphasizes the program's goals of graduation and improving teen outcomes to reduce pregnancy, using social work principles of social justice, dignity, and service to build clients' self-confidence to achieve their goals.

1. Cal-Learn
Pregnant and Parenting Teens
By
Dorothy Cabrera

2. Organizational Structure
County Board of Supervisors
Deputy Director of Social Services
Child Welfare
Department of Employment
and Temporary Assistance
Program Manager
Other programOther program
Cal-Learn
Social work Supervisor Social work SupervisorSocial work supervisor
Department of Social Services
Director of Social Services

3. Community Context of Agency
• Pregnant and parenting teens of all cultures served (as of
July 2010, 11,360 teens in program)
• Mostly Hispanic females pregnant or parenting teens
• Some males
• Live in urban and rural areas
• Live with guardian/or alone
• If over 18 years old some live w/boyfriends

5. Population At-Risk Whose
Needs the Agency Addresses
 Pregnant and parenting teens who drop out of school
 On public assistance
 Low-economic status
 Come from dysfunctional families
 Use drugs or alcohol
 Have mental issues

6. Agency Mission and Aim
Vision: To lead an integrated network of
community partners that support, protects, and
strengthen children and families.
Mission: To promote a system of best practice
in partnership with the community, committed
to prevention and early intervention, that
ensures child safety, permanence and stability,
family well-being that is proactive, strategic,
outcomes based and fiscally responsible to the
children and families served.

7. Agency Practice
 Training - Parenting classes and
employment skills
 Case Management - Working one on
one with teens
 Healthcare Education - Nutrition
workshops and baby well care
 Supportive Services, Transportation,
and Childcare

8. Eligibility for Cal-Learn
 Mandatory for teen receiving cash aid
 Under age 19
 Without high school diploma or its equivalent
 Living with child or pregnant
 Attend school full-time
 Must submit quarterly report cards
 Verification/school attendance

9. Voluntary Status in Cal-Learn
 Satisfactory progress in school
 Graduate before twenty
 Face-to-Face contact
 Verification
 Voluntary/Welfare to Work (WTW) program

10. Initial Assessment Includes
 Program overview
 Intake
 Documentation
 Information Gathering
 Referrals
 Develop school plan
 Review service plan

11. Financial Incentives and Penalties
 Bonuses
 Satisfactory progress
 Adequate progress with good cause
 Unsatisfactory progress/sanction

12. Nonparticipants in Cal-Learn Have
a Right to be Deferred or Exempt
 Deferred- Participant has a documented “special
need” which affects her ability to meet program
requirements for no more than ninety days.
 Exempt- Participant has a documented “special need”
which affects her ability to meet program requirements
for more than ninety days.

13. Significance of the agency in term of social
justice, social work, and human rights
 Social Justice: Social workers challenge social injustice by helping student
talk to school administrators ands counselors
 Service: Social worker’s primary goal is to help people in need and to
address social problems - to help student with resources such as parenting
classes for teens.
 Importance of Human relationship: Social workers recognize the central
importance of human relationships - by understanding all clients are different
but equal.
 Dignity and worth: Social workers respect the dignity and worth of person -
by social workers doing this, they develop a trusting relationship with clients.
 Integrity: Social workers behave in a trust worthy manner - when social
workers say they will help students, they follow through
 Competence: Social workers practice within their areas of competence and
develop and enhance their professional expertise while working with teens.

14. Summary
 Goals-
 Graduate
 To improve the outcome of teens and reduce
the incidence of teen pregnancy.
 Close with a sense of accomplishment
Social Justice , dignity and worth, and service
all built self confidence in the client to help
achieve their goals