THE HERALD Wednesday February 14 Page It Halton wants to help pregnant teens If IKON By ALLISON Herald Special Pregnant teenage girls from Halton Hills are not the Young Parent Support and an trying to find out why not Susan Stuart the of the Young Parents Support vices says while the program pro prenatal classes support information and encouragement lo 56 pregnant girls between of 15 and 22 last year from Halton Region the majority were from and Burlington Ms Stuart says in each prt natal class of girls there are only one or two from Georgetown and there been one participant from Acton We are very concerned because we know there are more girls in the north who could be using this pro gram We just don t know why they aren Maybe it s the geographical separation perhaps they are going to Guelph or Brampton I just haven been able to figure out why they calling Young Parent Support Services is sponsored by the Children Aid Society of Halton Halton Regional Department of Health and Adolescent Sup port Services The program offers pregnant teens counselling pre natal classes addition to social emotional and physical support from the beginning of pregnancy until three months after birth One aspect of the program Call Joyce provides counselling from social worker Joyce Page on an anonymous telephone line or the teen may choose to discuss her pro blems in person with Ms Page Young Parent Support Services specially trains volunteers to pro vide moral support for pregnant teens who need a friend A Holy volunteer in also htlp the teen at tend to pruUical needs like housing social assistance If requested volunteer will as men through labor and delivery Ms Page who has be en counselling pregnant teens since says has been i labor and delivery coach for nine different grls Prenatal classes night bv San of the Board of Health encourage the teens to become av ire of their options life style issues exercise nutn tion as well as the physical and motional changes they in going through The public health nurse coaches the teens in techniques for getting through labor and delivery what to expect with a newborn baby breastfeeding and strategies for coping Ms Stuart said the foal is to the services for teenage pregnant girls ithm the social services network The ad of Young Parent Sup port Services want other social ser vice organizations to refer teenagers to their organ iza Three months after the birth the Young Parent Support Services refers the girls on to other agencies The Young Parents Support Services program is set up to help i teens Here Sandra Murphy public health nursi Page a social worker and the of pro gram a ft v people from Hills use the service i Herald photo Cross Church wants to build seniors apartments the Herald A proposed seniors building at Maple Avenue and Mam Street in Georgetown will help meet the cur rent housing shortage faced Georgetown seniors Father Dave Cote of Holv Cross Church The town s planning staff is cur rently reviewing a submission for 80 apartments made by Father Cote and the other board of direc tors of the Profit Corporation The other tors include Reverend Peter Bar row of Knox Presbyterian Church and retired business people Area seniors groups support the need for increased housing results of a survey conducted bv the cor show Father Cote said The corporation receiv responses from half of the 200 peo ple contacted and all were sup portive the Father said The corporation has also been receiving requests on a weeklv basis asking if there is a waiting list he added The Maple Avenue and Main Street site was chosen because it would give seniors easy access to necessary amenities like doctors SAME DAY TAX RETURNS 101 Guelph St Georgetown 8772217 GEORGETOWN GENERAL STORE i CALLING ALL SENIORS WE NOW DELIVER shopping the libnn Cote said Existing seniors residences in Georgetown are not within walking distinct to these amenities ind because the town has no public transportation have to on axis or some other form of transporta he said The apartments would be geared to person income said Father Cote Apartments would be set aside for low income middle- income and high income people he Father Cote pointed to statements made by the Housing Authority last as pro of of the need for more seniors housing Hilton Hills seniors can from six months to two to get into retirement home a housing spokesman said at the time The comments came in the wake of a report published the Region that the seniors population in increased b per cent from to 1986 The report also staled the number of seniors in Hills will almost double There are current l 2 800 seniors in Halton Hills out of a total population of Eleven per cent of the Regions seniors lie in Hills OPEN DAYS 8732151 St Sat 173 Sun am LOOK GOOD FEEL GREAT Mate and Female Membership I Membership 1 I ring It Intu J arty We WORK THAT BODY street GEORGETOWN MEDICAL ASSOCIATES 1 A Princess Anne Drive are pleased to announce that MARGARET CAWKWELL bSc md has otned their association Dr Cawkwelf graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School in She completed a two year Family Medicine residency at Sunnybrook Hospital in June 1989 and recently completed 6 months of extra training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at St Michael s Hospital She ob tamed her certification in Family Medicine from the College of Family Physicians of Canada within the community Dorothy not her real name a teenage mother who was a client of the Young Parent Support Services in 1988 says The program is ex I got great support there They encouraged me to make to take of myself and prepare for the baby They helped me sort mv feelings out Dorothy got pregnant at age 17 just after her got out of jail The boyfriend was not in in he responsibilitv of a so Dorothy returned to her parents home The young mother says her life has changed completely since she got pregnant I don have a social life anymore Where I go the baby goes I don see my old friends at all I don t know why but they just backed away She came to Young Parent Sup port Services for pre natal classes when she was six months preg Her boyfriend was gone her parents were having trouble cop ing and she needed support With the help of a counsellor she sorted out her problems urrently Dorothy is caring for her daughter living with her parents and looking forward to the future 1 d like to get into school and get an education because 1 know I can I bring up m baby on per hour mornings Doroth and the go to a program Young Parent Support Services referred them to called Teen Lunch at the Parent Child Centre Store robbed convenience store on Street in Georgetown was robbed of S3 on Feb J At a m he owner had left a bank deposit i bag in the back room Police when returned two hours later i lot of mone was gone The culprit or culprits It ft 2 behind It provides support and encourage ment to teenage mothers Dorothy recommends the pro gram to other girls in the same situation I think if you are a teen 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