The Program

Supporting Expecting & Parenting Teens Program

A unique and personalised program which matches an expecting or parenting young person with a professional mentor for 12 months. Mentors work from local hub sites, community organisations or via virtual delivery.

Our mentors walk alongside participants throughout the program – from referrals and first contact, to setting goals and working to achieve them, to celebration of their achievements and graduation from the program.

We work together with the pregnant or parenting young person on setting goals that are important to them including (but not limited to):

  • educational and workforce participation
  • social connection
  • health and wellbeing
  • life skills
  • parenting skills

We also provide support and help with referrals to additional services for:

  • navigating payments
  • financial or housing assistance
  • applying for childcare
  • healthy relationships
  • caring for your baby

Brave partners with and promotes existing pregnancy and parenting support services and educational opportunities.

Who is eligible

Criteria for eligibility

All participants must have an interest in preparing for education, training or employment.

Primary criteria for eligibility are:

  • Age (under 19) or aged under 25 years but became a parent at 19 or under

We also consider referrals from:

  • Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) young parents aged under 25 who started parenting at 21 or under
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young parents aged under 25 who started parenting at 21 or under
  • Parents with an intellectual disability aged under 25
  • Parents who live in a remote or rural location and aged under 25 if there are limited services available.

The Pathway Plan

The Pathway Plan is an interactive tool created with participants to identify and keep track of the goals they would like to achieve while working with their mentor at Brave. The Plan includes the steps they will take to achieve these goals.

Our mentors work with participants to create a Pathway Plan to ensure they are connected to support, services and opportunities in their local communities.

Participant’s individual Pathway Plans are regularly reviewed with their mentor to see how they are progressing towards their goals and to continually identify further areas of support that will maximise their development as a parent and as an individual.

Program Locations

  • Cairns QLD
  • Darwin NT
  • Greater Melbourne VIC
  • Multiple locations TAS
  • Newcastle NSW
  • Perth WA
  • Virtual Delivery NATIONALLY

Make a Referral

You can make a referral online as a young person, support person or professional. Submit the form online or download it and send the completed form to

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Evidence Based

Founded, designed and led by those with diverse lived experience, Brave has many years’ experience and expertise working with expecting and parenting young people and the community stakeholders who support them.

Brave has used evidence and lived experience to create the SEPT Program and will continue to draw on lived experience, organisational and external data, and research.

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