Healthy Generations Program

The Generations Program is a teenage pregnancy program at Children's National that improves the health, developmental, and behavioral outcomes for adolescent headed families. The program accomplishes this by nurturing positive parenting skills, supporting the educational and career goals of adolescent parents, and reducing the rate of unplanned pregnancies. The program provides medical care using the "teen-tot" model, where parents and children can be seen together, with the same doctor, at the same visit. This "one stop shopping" allows families to receive all the services they need at the time of their medical visit or any other time they are needed. Services include care during child illness, family planning, parenting education, gynecologic care, physicals, and psychosocial and nutritional services,

The program aims to provide comprehensive, family-centered health care for adolescent parents and their children.

The program has served over 1,500 adolescent-headed families to date. Teen parent participants are more likely to stay in school and graduate, and less likely to become pregnant again: school enrollment and completion stayed about 80% and repeat pregnancy rates have consistently stayed at less than 10%. Their children have higher immunization rates: immunization rates for children of adolescent parents remained above 90%.