BREAKING BARRIERS - Women’s Centre helping 139 teen moms to head back to school on Monday

Sashana SmallJournalist at Jamaica Gleaner

September 5, 2026

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BREAKING BARRIERS - Women’s Centre helping 139 teen moms to head back to school on Monday

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Nearly 140 adolescent mothers will return to school on Monday, a move executive director of the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), Novlette Howell, said reflects a shifting attitude towards the reintegration of teenage mothers into the classroom.

“The notion where our girls are not getting into institutions, it’s a thing of the past,” she told The Gleaner.

“Most of our girls do very well, and I attribute that to the counselling component of the programme. And as a result, at the end of the tenure with us, they would have been doing very well academically,” she said.

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