St. Louis Volunteer Resource Parents (SLVRP) is a mentoring program matching pregnant teens with community mentors. This program is is a collaboration between the St. Louis Neighborhood Network, Family Resource Center (of St. Louis),the Missouri Department of Social Services, and the Missouri Mentoring Partnership.

SLVRP is modeled after Missouri Volunteer Resource Mothers, a research model created at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The research study found that matching pregnant teens with mentors signifigantly reduced child abuse potential, signifigantly reduced feelings of distress and social isolation, led to fewer hospital visits for their infants, more commitment to breast feeding, and fewer repeat pregnancies.

Vision Statement: St. Louis Volunteer Resource Parents envisions a strong community where children are safe and families are healthy and self-sufficient.

Mission Statement: St. Louis Volunteer Resource Parents, as a part of the Missouri Mentoring Partnership and the St.Louis Neighborhood Network, is committed to promoting safe children, healthy and self-sufficient families, and strong communities through volunteer community mentors, educational programs, and referrals to community resources for pregnant and parenting youth under the age of 22.

Goals of the program are for children of teen parents to be safe, families of teen parents to be healthy, and to move teens in the program towards self-suffiency.