The Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation, through its commitment to the improvement of educational attainment and Adolescent Reproductive Health, strives to promote a holistic approach to services and information for the youth of our nation.
The Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation, an agent for innovative change, has particular responsibility for promoting a new approach to problems associated with teenage pregnancy, especially in the area of interrupted education.
The Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation focuses on education, training and developmental counselling, by this means improving levels of employment and productivity among our young and delay unwanted pregnancy
- To develop and implement a system for the mandatory reintegration of school-aged mothers into the formal school system.
- To institute a school-based system for referral and monitoring of pregnant students, in partnership with the WCJF’s Programme for Adolescent Mothers.
- To create a framework for integrating and expanding the support services available to assist school-aged mothers to complete their education.
- To increase public awareness of the right of schoolaged mothers to an education and the need to reduce incidents of teen pregnancy.
- To increase institutional acceptance of mandatory reintegration of school
To provide continuing education for girls who have dropped out of the formal school system due to a pregnancy and return them to the formal school system after the birth of their babies.
1. To delay early second pregnancies
2. To relieve the negative effects of a first pregnancy
3. To return girls to the formal school system for completion of secondary education
SITES
SITES
The WCJF provides outreach services to adolescent mothers who are unable to reach main centres.
STUDENTS
STUDENTS
Education and skills training is the WCJF’s main focus in order to improve levels of employment and productivity among Jamaica’s youth.
PARTNERSHIPS
PARTNERSHIPS
The Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) embraces the worth of strategic partnerships in the delivery of its mission and mandate.
ADOLESCENT HEALTH
ADOLESCENT HEALTH
The Adolescent Resource Centre (ARC) is a friendly space that addresses the wide and varied health needs of youth. The ARC also provides intensive individual and group counselling in health and family life education.