Pregnant and Parenting Teens

An Initiative of the Pennsylvania Department of Education

The Education Leading to Employment and Career Training (ELECT) program enables Capital Area Intermediate Unit to help pregnant and parenting teens earn a diploma or GED certificate, become better parents and make the transition to employment or higher education.

Group and Individual Services:

Designed to meet the challenging needs of pregnant and parenting teens, the ELECT program uses group and one-on-one approaches to meet each student’s unique needs. The ELECT program has the following components:

-Promote resiliency and wellness
-Vocational, career and job readiness-training
-Health care and nutrition education
-Secondary pregnancy prevention education
-Academic tutoring, mentoring and homework assistance
-Child development and parenting skills
-Access to childcare and transportation
-Life skills training and family budgeting
-Intensive case management, including home visits
-Year-round educational activities, including summer contact
-Attendance tracking and retention
-Support for attaining a GED equivalency diploma
-Domestic violence and substance abuse information
-Helping teen dropouts re-enroll in school or a GED program


For more information: http://www.caiu.org/families/elect-efi

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the nurse’s office at 717-530-2730, ext. 6930