The project will provide 500 teenage girls who are pregnant and/or nursing children between the ages 0-3 years living in Mukuru Slum of Nairobi with knowledge and skills to promote their children’s brain and overall development, through a three-pronged approach incorporating scientific, social and economic interventions. The project will utilize an Early Childhood Development (ECD) framework that will take teenage mothers through a process of ECD awareness, knowledge acquisition, action, accountability, assessment and access to services. Initial parenting workshops will promote self-esteem and positive parenting, and share key ECD messaging, followed by groups that promote support, learning and action. Outcomes measured will include parent knowledge, attitudes, practices and access to services, along with child developmental outcomes using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire and BMIs.
