The Parents Under 25 Program (P25P) serves pregnant and parenting youth ages 14 to 25. We aim to increase access to healthcare and supportive services, promote healthy child development, and strengthen family relationships to advance the overall wellbeing of young parents and their children.
Our program is supported by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health through its Massachusetts Pregnant and Parenting Teen Initiative (MPPTI).
Location and Contact
Adolescent Center
Monday – Thursday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Related Departments and Programs
Pediatric Primary Care
A program providing children’s primary care with check-ups, sick visits, vaccines, teen care, and support for ongoing health needs.
Adolescent Medicine
A pediatric primary care program specializing in pediatric and adolescent medicine, offering preventive, reproductive, and mental health care.
CATALYST Clinic
A primary care program offering adolescent substance use services and adolescent addiction treatment with medical care and counseling support.
Curbside Care Program
A program that provides comprehensive primary care and support services to birthing people and newborns up to one month old at their home.
Family Planning Clinic
A clinic providing family planning services, including contraception, counseling, and reproductive health care for teens and young adults.
Teen and Tot Program
A pediatric primary care program supporting teens with teenage pregnancy through prenatal care, parenting support, and mental health services.
Obstetrics and Gynecology
A department providing women’s reproductive healthcare and other OBGYN services, including pregnancy, fertility, and menstrual conditions.
Project RESPECT
A prenatal care program that offers addiction and behavioral health treatment and support for pregnant people with substance use disorders.
Refugee Women’s Health Clinic
Pediatrics Residency and Other Programs
The Division of Adolescent Medicine is a primary training site for residents in the Boston Children’s Hospital/Boston Medical Center Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP) in pediatrics.
Residents in family medicine and in the family medicine and psychiatry combined program, as well as fellows in addiction medicine and endocrinology, also regularly rotate through the division. Adolescent Medicine also hosts a fourth-year medical student elective for students at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.
Adolescent Medicine Research
Adolescent Medicine faculty participate in research activities through the Youth Advocacy and Research Collaborative (YARC) or the Division of Pediatric Health Services Research.
Current research in the Adolescent Division includes the Youth Overdose Prevention Study, which aims to create a brief, universal overdose prevention intervention for youth that can be delivered during their annual physical exam. In the initial phase, the team worked with a community advisory board of local stakeholders to design an anticipatory guidance intervention. The intervention will be piloted in a randomized control trial at BMC, and that data will be used to develop a larger-scale trial.
In addition, researchers are participating in the PrEP/Apretude Adherence study, which uses innovative smartphone gaming apps and guided text messages to measure adherence in adolescents and young adults who have recently started or restarted pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV.