Youth Services

Adolescent Family Life Program

The Adolescent Family Life Program (AFLP) is a free, case-management program for parenting and expecting youth under 21 years in Kings County. This program takes a youth-centered approach to encourage youth to take a hands-on approach to decisions pertaining to their life. Case managers will work on-on-one with young families to support a healthy balance between personal career goals, higher education, relationships, and family planning all while developing each youth's unique set of skills and strengths. The purpose of this program is to equip youth and young families with skills of resiliency and adaptiveness to overcome any obstacle in their lives, even beyond this program.

What is AFLP? 

Adolescent Family Life Program (AFLP) is a strengths-based case management program designed to support and empower expectant and parenting youth. The program emphasizes building resilience to help youth navigate life's difficulties. 

Case managers meet one-on-one with youth to establish a caring relationship, identify the youth's needs and interests, and offer support with accessing services, setting goals and planning for the future. 

Purpose and Goals 

The purpose of the AFLP is to improve the life course trajectory of expectant and parenting youth and their children through a resiliency-based, youth-led program that integrates assessment of needs and interest and linage to care and support services with skill building and life planning. 

  • Increase social and emotional support. 

  • Build resiliency. 

  • Improve pregnancy planning and spacing. 

  • Increase educational attainment and employability. 

  • Increase access to needed services. 

Requirements 

  • Expectant or parenting youth under 21 years old.

  • Includes parenting working on regaining custody of their children.

  • Includes their partners. No minimum age is required. 

Additional information 

  • Youth-led/youth-centered program.

  • Parental consent not required. 

  • On hour meetings with your case manager two times per month.  

  • Meetings with case managers are in-person or virtual.

  • 12-month participation recommended.