ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Ronald Blocker Educational Leadership Center

445 West Amelia StreetOrlando, Florida 32801

407.317.3200, Ext. 2002988

Dear Teen Parents, Your experience with your child is about to start. It will be an amazing time filled with many ups and downs, times of happiness and challenge. Our mission is to help you develop responsible, competent, and positive parenting skills and to help you successfully stay in school and graduate.

The Teenage Parent Program (TAP) TAP of Orange County Public Schools serves the needs of teen parents who are students in OCPS schools or the BETA School. TAP can provide the funding for child care so that teen parents can attend school to finish high school credits and to obtain the diploma that the labor market increasingly demands. By reaching these goals, teen parents will be better prepared to care for themselves and their children in the future.

If you know of any students who can benefit from this program, please have them contact

their school guidance counselor or:

Teenage Parent Program Ronald Blocker

Educational Leadership Center (8th Floor)

445 West Amelia Street Orlando, Fl. 32801

(407) 317-3200, Ext. 2002988

Vionnette Montes

Ronald Blocker Educational Leadership Center (8th Floor)

445 West Amelia Street Orlando, Fl. 32801

(407) 317-3200 Ext. 2002777

Alternative Education/ Beta School 4680 Lake Underhill Road Orlando, Fl. 32807 (407) 852-3300, Ext. 7313

The School Board of Orange County, Florida, does not discriminate in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in its programs and activities, on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, marital status, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by law. The following individuals at the Ronald Blocker Educational Leadership Center, 445 W. Amelia Street, Orlando, Florida 32801, attend to compliance matters: ADA Coordinator & Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Officer: Carianne Reggio; Section 504 Coordinator: Latonia Green; Title IX Coordinator: Doug Patterson. (407.317.3200

Services available to students in the Teenage Parent Program Students can choose to remain in their assigned schools or attend BETA Middle/High School at UCP Downtown.

These services are available at high schools and middle schools.

• Competency-based curriculum in prenatal, postnatal health, and birth to three years instruction with emphasis on abstinence strategies and consequences of subsequent pregnancies

• Counseling • Academics • Weekly monitoring of teen parent’s needs with support services

• Funding provisions for child care

• School bus transportation provided per location access

These services are available at BETA Middle/High School at UCP Downtown.

• Alternative School • Curriculum, 6-12 comparable to student’s course schedule • Parenting classes • ESE • ELL

• Counseling • Academics • Personal and family • Referral assistance with: medical care plan, housing, continuing education

• On-site child care facility provided

• School bus transportation provided

• The BETA School offers the following services: • Child Care • Free & reduced lunch • Crisis and supportive individual and family counseling • Emergency food, formula, clothing and diapers • Child abuse prevention services

HIGH SCHOOL / MIDDLE

Referral help at each school with the following services available from agencies in Orange County:

• Child Care • Counseling • Food • Health Well Care • Housing • Jobs • Legal Aid Society • Transportation

Resource Network

TRANSPORTATION

ACADEMIC CLASSES/PARENTING

PERSONAL COUNSELING

CHILD CAREBETA MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL AT UCP DOWNTOWN