Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation

The Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation is government agency under the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, that implements new approaches to problems associated with adolescent pregnancy, especially in the area of interrupted education. The programme helps adolescent mothers to reintegrated into an institution of learning, after dropping out. They are provided with the necessary support services such as training and developmental counselling, during and after their reintegration. Since January 1978 to date, over 46,000 adolescent mothers have enrolled in the programme, many of whom were / are graduates attending tertiary institutions and / or are working. The Centre focuses on intervening in the delay of subsequent adolescent pregnancies, which its percentage rate has decreased over the years.