After a two-year absence, during which PHS underwent a major renovation of classrooms, BLW has returned this year, expanding its program to serve two campuses fully.
3. La Vie Counseling Center (La Vie)
Contact: Dr. Mark Baker, Executive Director, (626) 351-9616, ext. 107
www.laviecounseling.org
BLW got its start under the supportive fiscal sponsorship of La Vie. La Vie believed in the program and helped staff it, providing bookkeeping and payroll services. Dr. Mark Baker donated endless hours of his time to help BLW thrive; La Vie licensed personnel have offered our staff two hours of weekly supervision from the beginning.

4. Black Infant Health program of City of Pasadena Health Clinic
Contact Geraldine Perry-Williams, (626) 744-6092
This partner has supplied speakers to our teens on the human reproductive system, family planning and demonstrations of contraceptives. This year a panel of teen mothers and fathers will come to campus to talk with BLW participants and answer questions about the challenges and triumphs they have experienced.

5. Huntington Memorial Hospital’s Parent Connection
Contact: Mary Holzer, Director, The Parent Connection, (626) 397-8509
For eight years the Parent Connection of Huntington Memorial Hospital has sponsored two to four BLW field trips a year to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, engaging nurses, doctors, respiratory, physical and occupational therapists to speak with BLW teens. Teens try on the empathy belly, take a quiz on common newborn problems and write imaginary essays about being admitted to give birth.

6. Pasadena area businesses during BLW’s Job Shadow Day: fire fighters, police and sheriffs, veterinarians, attorneys, family court, cosmetologists, newspapers, computer network centers, forest service, child care centers and nursery schools, pastors, community college professors, mental health providers, auto mechanics, food services and culinary institutes, etc.

7. Foothill Family Service
Contact: Pat Avery, Director, Clinical Services, (626) 564-1613
www.foothillfamily.org
A mental health service with whom BLW has partnered from the beginning in the Calif. Dept of Health Community Challenge Grant awards.

8. Haven House shelter for women
Contact: Sheila Halfon, Executive Director, (626) 564-8880
Haven House’s director presents to our teens each semester lively discussions on ways to recognize and avoid abusive behavior and relationships.

9. Planned Parenthood of Pasadena
Contact: Sheri Bonner, Executive Director, (626) 794-5737
www.pppasadena.org
Planned Parenthood educators present family planning and sexually-transmitted infections information to our teens each semester BLW takes its students on a brief visit here to introduce teens to the services it offers.

10. California Family Health Council
Contact: Chuck Marquardt, Executive Director, (213) 386-5614, ext 4583
www.cfhc.org
The dynamic directors and staff give workshops to our parents, our teens and our staff at various community centers.

11. Asset Development Network (ADN)
Contact: Sue Miele, sxmiele@earthlink.net
This new partnership between TF and ADN is helping TF add components to its interviews and evaluation activities that increase focus on positive assets and the 40 antecedents contributing to a teen’s healthy future. TF staff participated in ADN’s annual conference in 2005 and BLW students will also participate in 2006.

12. Teen Futures Collaborative
Twice a year TF meets with a wide group of community organization representatives, many from the Blair and PHS campuses other school programs, to explore ways to collaborate for the benefit of youth and to work as a team.

13. Los Angeles Regional Teen Pregnancy Prevention Collaborative
Contact: Sandy Wedgeworth, Chair, (562) 570-7925
Bimonthly, this collaborative consisting of all the recipients of Community Challenge grants in the L.A. area meet to increase cooperation, share resources and training, and plan collaborative events. These meetings are often required workshops for dispensing important information.

14. Community Without Walls
Contact: Greg Apodaca, (626) 345-0981
This group’s director is meeting with TF to plan service learning projects for BLW teens who choose not to experience the infant simulator.

15. Pasadena Neighborhood Connections
Contact: Brien Biery, Director, (626) 744-7290
www.ci.pasadena.ca.us
This director attends all Teen Futures Collaborative meetings and advises TF on available grants, agencies that can help and neighborhood groups through which TF can offer parent programs.

16. DADS for Education
Contact: Selwyn Brereton, selwyn@bcsit.net
DADS is a vital partner in BLW’s Peer2Peer tutoring project, serving as adult volunteers mentoring the teen tutors.

17. AIDS Service Center
www.aidsservicecenter.org
The director partners with BLW to give interactive educational presentations on AIDS/HIV and BLW teens have participated in the “POSADA Candlelight AIDS Walk.”

18. Pasadena LEARNs, after-school programs
Contact: Bill Fennessy, (626) 441-2201 x206
This major partner helps make Peer2Peer happen through its after-school seventh grade enrollees.

19. Community Health Alliance of Pasadena
This year we will have a strong relationship with CHAP as our grant requires that a certain number of our teens visit their services; we will make brief visits so teens know their location.

20. PUSD Health Department
Contact: Carol LaVal, Director of Health Programs, (626) 795-6981
BLW consults continually with the PUSD health director to make sure the program is in compliance with health curriculum standards and has a positive relationship with PUSD.

21. New Revelation Baptist Church
Contact: Rita Turner, (626) 797-0121
This church is one among several that has shown interest in having BLW in its high school youth program; talks have not led to this actuality but may in the future.

22. Eaton Canyon Nature Center
Contact: Susan Martorana, Office Mgr, (626) 398-5420
This county facility has been very generous in donating space in its beautiful facility for parent breakfasts and student-initiated “retreats” for teens not served by BLW