Promising Partners is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the educational and personal development of teen parents. 
 
Our mission is to provide teen parents social and emotional support for the completion of high school and opportunities for further education and to reduce any negative consequences for the children of teen mothers and fathers.

Our purpose is to match pregnant or parenting teens with an adult volunteer mentor.  Mentors serve as supportive, caring role models, spending time with mother and child and providing guidance and friendship.  They can help in improving the educational, health, and social prospects of this generation of young people and the next.

By providing teen parents with better choices for education, training and eventually careers, they have been given the most important gift of all – the chance to achieve economic self-sufficiency to support their family and independence as an adult.

Promising Partners is currently available to approximately 200 teen parents in the Lewisville Independent School District that includes the surrounding communities of  Lewisville, Flower Mound, The Colony, and Highland Village. 

With the support of Lewisville Independent School District Administrators and School Age Parent Program (SAPP) Coordinator Marilyn Sanders, Promising Partners provides guidance, support, and encouragement to teen parents in the SAAP program through our mentoring program.  Our services are free and volunteer based. Funding for our program comes from corporate giving, foundations, community groups and individual contributions.  If you are interested in making a donation, please click on here.

• Texas ranks 4th in teen births.
•  In Texas, a baby is born to a teen mother every 10 minutes.
• Texas leads the nation in the percentage of teen mothers.
• Texas leads the nation in repeat births to girls aged 15 to 19
• Texas has 55,000 teen births annually. 
• 96% of teen mothers keep their babies.
• 85% of teens with mentors will go on to secondary education in college or some type of technical school, whereas, only 20-30% of that same group will go on to college.
• 50% of teenage mothers have a second child within two years of their first.
• The U.S. has the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the western industrialized world.  Teen pregnancy costs the US at least $9 billion annually and Texas $1 billion annually.
• Only 33% of adolescent mothers will graduate high school and only 1.5% will earn a college degree by age 30.
• Children of teen moms have lower birth weights, are more likely to perform poorly in school and are at greater risk of abuse and neglect.

Our vision is to have a program in which teen parents are nurtured by their mentors, the community and the school district, supporting teen parents as they face their future and assisting each of them to develop into their full potential. By encouraging teen parents to complete high school, it opens their eyes to opportunities for further education, and ultimately promotes independent living and attainable employment goals.

We are dedicated to providing this program to teen parents in the Lewisville ISD community and in the near future, surrounding communities as well.