Tandem Collaboration

WHAT IS TANDEM?
The Tandem Pregnant & Parenting Teen Collaboration promotes the health and well-being of teen parents who receive prenatal care at People’s Community Clinic. The collaboration works to reduce the risk of low birth weight infants and subsequent unplanned pregnancies. Tandem has been recognized for incorporating into its program many of the nationally identified best practices for serving teen parents. It has been particularly effective in promoting positive health behaviors among its participants. Tandem is a collaboration among Any Baby Can, Austin Child Guidance Center, LifeWorks and People’s Community Clinic.

WHAT SERVICES ARE PROVIDED?
Any Baby Can’s role in the collaboration is to provide home-based case management services and parenting education to teens in Tandem from the mother’s pregnancy until her child turns three years old. Any Baby Can Tandem staff work specifically with young girls who have dropped out of school, attend an alternative school, or are in residential placement, including Gardner-Betts Juvenile Detention Center. The following is a complete list of Tandem services, provided by the combined collaborative partners:
*Provided by Any Baby Can

·     Home-based case management*
·     Prenatal, parenting and childbirth education*
·     Child development screening and education*
·     Nutrition education and counseling*
·     Mental health services (including individual, family and group counseling)*
·     Crisis intervention*
·     Educational support services*
·     Housing services*
·     Community resource information and referrals*
·     Substance abuse screening and referral*
·     Fatherhood and paternity services
·     Family planning services
·     Prenatal, pediatric and adolescent health care

WHERE ARE SERVICES PROVIDED?
Services are offered in the client’s home, school or other convenient locations.

HOW MUCH DO SERVICES COST?
Services are free to those who are eligible.

I HAVE QUESTIONS. WHO SHOULD I CONTACT?
Referrals for Tandem are taken through People’s Community Clinic: 512-478-4939.