ABSTRACT
The services provided by the Project took the form of a grade school run expressly for the Project girls, group and individual counseling of the girls and their families, and the arrangement of regular prenatal care with the public clinics of the city. The social worker bore chief responsibility for formulating and expressing the Project's orientations and objectives to the girls. The Project staff hoped to reduce the likelihood of a second illegitimate pregnancy and to extend the length of time girls remained in school following the birth of a child. The staff members who had routine contact with the girls were the teachers, the social worker, and the psychiatric nurse. Girls came to the Project in order to go to school; they came more and less voluntarily and with greater and lesser interest in education per se, but they understood the school to be the legitimate reason for their involvement with the Project.
