414 - Wednesday, June 5, 1991 - North Shore News

NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

NORTH SHORE Neighbourhood House, with assistance from the North Shore Board of Heaith, serves
hot lunches for parenting teens and their children.

Group studying programs for parenting teens

A NORTH Shore multi-agency
committee has received $3,600 to
study the feasibility of providing
an education and daycare program
for North Shore parenting teens.

By Elizabeth Collings
News Reporter

According to Franca S8ertoncin,
chairman of the parenting teens

education ana duycare advisary
committee, 85 to 98% of paren-
ting teens in B.C. decide to keep
their children. On average there
are 40 births each year to 15-19-
yea:-olds on the North Shore.

Bertoncin said many parenting
teens are unshle to finish their
education because of a lack of
daycare.

“They are dropping out of
school because of being young
parents,”* she said. ‘'What’s keep-

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ing them from school is lack of
daycare facilities.’”

The study will explore possibie
locations, the number of parenting
tecis who may be affected by a
lack of daycare, and the types of
programs that might mect their
needs. The program may provide
job training as well as high school
graduation, said Bertoncin.

Expanding service

More SeaBus sailings
approved for tourist
increase in Summer

THE VANCOUVER Regional
Transit Commission has ap-
proved expanded Sunday and
holiday hours of operation for
the SeaBus.

“The commission has ap-
proved additional sailings in
order 10 meet the increased
demand that SeaBus  tradi-
tionally sees in the summer,”’
said commission chairman and
North Vancouver District
Mayor Murray Dykeman.
“*SeaBus popularity with
tourists is one of the reasons

A questionnaire will also at-
tempt to determine the needs and
goals of parenting teens.

Funding for the study, which
should be concluded by the end of
June, came from Strengthening
the Community Grants, provincial
funding that is dispersed by North
Shore Health to community
groups.

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The number of people taking
the SeaBus dering the midday
on Sundays and holidays has
grown steadily over the years.
B.C. Transit will therefore in-
crease ScaBus sailings to every
15 minutes starting June 3¢.

The extended hours will be
in effect until Sept, 2.

To complement the increase
in SeaBus sailings, the commis-
sion has also approved addi-
tional bus service to Lonsdale

Quay,

Other grants allocated by the
health department include $2,500
to the North Shore Caregivers
Support Society, and $2,730 to
Compassionate Friends, a support
group for bereaved parents of
recently deceased children. A hot
lunch program at North Shore
Neighbourhood House received a
grant of $4,218.

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