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This article includes reflections and analyses of the process of immigration and attempts to assimilate or fit into the host culture in the US and the academic setting. Later acculturation, the blending of two cultures, became more of a challenge and influenced my research, teaching and contributions to the field of social work.

This article reports the results of a collaborative intervention effort between a teen-parent program and a school of social work Social work faculty and students participated in a program aimed at strengthening parental skills and the utilization of social support among adolescent mothers who were enrolled in a special high school program. The results of this evaluation study point to additional factors, such as empathy training and stress management, which need to be included in a comprehensive service-delivery program for school-age mothers.

Interventions with single-parent families across the life cycle can be linked to important feminist social work tenets of networking, awareness, support, and self-help. The strength of these systems are addressed in terms of supportive internal and external structures, normalization, and advocacy for compensatory policy changes.