St. Louis Volunteeer 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 Division of Family Services, the Missouri Department of Social Services, and the Missouri Mentoring Partnership.

SLVRP is a branch of 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, fewer hospital visits for their infants, more commitment ot breast feeding, and fewer repeat pregnancies.

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