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Waiting on Father Patrick Jackson House

by Laura McReynolds

posted 2/17/2009

Are teen pregnancies on the rise in Washtenaw County? Christina Rivest, director of Father Patrick Jackson House at Main and Pauline, thinks so. Over the last four years she’s seen Father Pat’s, the area’s only residential program for pregnant and parenting teens, go from no waiting list to a full house of five with twelve girls waiting to get in. Another

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