Youth Connection Waco

Our primary services include: REAL CARE BABY PROJECT This program helps young men and women make responsible, informed choices about becoming parents. The Real Care Baby cries and needs regular feeding, burping, diapering, and rocking. Using schedules of real infants, these behaviors occur unpredictably. Daily care schedules are programmed into a box in the “baby’s” back. Middle and high school students care for the life-like baby for a period ranging from two days to one week. There are also “babies” that show the affects of fetal alcohol syndrome, drugs and shaking a baby. ANNUAL CONFERENCEs Youth Connection hosts “Moving Forward: Effective Ways to Reach Our Youth” each spring for professionals who work with youth. It covers new programs, methods and strategies to use with at-risk teens.