Bureaucratic maze daunting for teen moms looking for help

Canadian Press – August 9 2009,

EDMONTON — Juelle Smalridge was overwhelmed when she became a mother at age 17, but she juggled her new parental responsibilities with her studies and finished high school, something not many teen parents in Alberta are able to do.

Smalridge, who is now 18 with a 14-month-old son, is one of the successful students at Braemar, a school partnered with Terra – Centre for pregnant and parenting teens in Edmonton.