MALAYBALAY CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has started its project aimed at providing emotional and psychological support to teenage mothers.
Dubbed as Project ProtecTEEN, it serves as a
platform that provides an enabling environment by increasing young mothers'
parenting and responsibilities awareness to help them attain developmental
tasks, cope with the demands of parenting, and perform their social roles,
according to its team leader Jelie Barceta Barceta.
Based on the latest data, Malaybalay City is among
the top five cities with the highest teenage pregnancy cases, with 591 girls
giving birth at a young age.
The first batch of mothers, aged 10 to 19, will
undergo the process for five days in close coordination with the DSWD and
trained implementers of the local government.
The ProtecTEEN project was launched by the DSWD and
the Commission on Population and Development on August 10, 2022, to provide
psychosocial support and other interventions for teenage mothers and their
families.
The project is a social welfare intervention model
that intends to create a supportive environment for adolescent mothers and
their families. This framework's strategy is to give teenage mothers more power
by giving direct social services and help, referring them to other agencies,
and getting together peer advocates. (Mindanao Examiner)
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