Student Parenting & Family Services, Inc.

The Elizabeth Celotto Child Care Center (NAEYC accredited) will improve the school readiness of 32 young children of teenage parents by providing daily quality early childhood education and care and by providing developmental assessments that identify children who need special services. The program will also support the teenage parents’ parenting skills by helping 32 teenage parents remain in and complete high school and by providing parent education, support and counseling to the teenage parents. The target population is teenage parents who attend school in New Haven and their infants and toddlers attending SPFS’s Elizabeth Celotto Child Care Center at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven.