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Assistance
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of Inland North County
P.O. Box 300793
Escondido, CA 92030
(760) 746-7532 |
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Deterring Teen Pregnancies
Recognizing the need to insert reality into the overly sentimentalized picture many teens have of childcare, Assistance League of Inland North County works with local schools by offering Baby Real Deal. We provide the "babies", equipment, software, etc.
This program is designed to give middle school and high school students a real life-like experience in parenting by using infant simulators. Students learn the care of the "babies" in Child Development and Life Sciences classes. The goal is to help a student determine that he or she is not ready for parenting until older.
Students take "a baby" home on Friday afternoon and care for it until Monday morning. The baby is programmed to cry, indicating a need to be fed, burped, changed or cuddled. The student wears a bracelet with a sensor that records if the student or someone else cared for the "baby."
A computer chip in the "baby" and accompanying software allow the teacher to evaluate the care the "baby" received -- if it was timely and appropriate or if the "baby" was abused or ignored. The printout gives the student a grade, but more importantly alerts them to the needs and fragility of real babies as siblings, babysitters or future parents.
Raising Awareness of Shaken Baby Syndrome, Drug-Caused Birth Detects and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome:
Baby Real Deal committee members also present a compelling program to schools and community organizations on the totally preventable birth defects caused by alcohol and drug use during pregnancy + the devastating, life-long injuries and even death caused by shaking a baby.
Students can observe and hold the 3 infant simulators that depict the mal-formed Fetal Alcohol Baby, the tiny drug-affected baby with the real cocaine-addicted cry, and the shaken baby whose transparent skull lights up showing the brain damage paralysis, etc. caused by shaking.
The program also features DVD's from the Fetal Alcohol and Shaken Baby Syndrome Foundations that present tragic, first-hand accounts of these totally preventable actions. Each student goes home with a SBS
Foundation brochure to share with their families.
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Assistance League of Inland North County provides the participating schools with:
Several infant simulators
Manuals of instruction
Videotapes of instruction
Strollers, car seats and diaper bags
Loan of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Drug Affected "Babies"
Batteries for the "baby"
Support staff for the program
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