Hiya, my names Suzannah. I am 19 years old. I am a mum to my beautiful little girl. I am still with my baby’s father who is Nelson and have been for 29 months. Before I found out I was pregnant I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life and I wasn’t actually bothered.
I only really started to think about it when I became pregnant. When I was growing up my parents had always worked for everything and that’s when I realised I didn’t want my child growing up in poverty and living on handouts. But when I actually started trying to find a job or a career path it was a lot harder than I thought as I had practically failed school and I only came out with two GCSE’s in math and food technology.
As the months went by I decided to leave looking for work until I had my baby. But when I was 4 months pregnant, I started on a home based learning course. It was wicked! I could do it at home and take it in my own time, but you have a mentor to support you. As part of it, I got my English GCSE – grade C. When I had my daughter I started to think more and more about my future. So I asked my Connexions Personal Advisor to keep a look out for anything. My PA is amazing as he always kept in contact when I was pregnant and sorted a lot of things out for me by getting me in contact with the right people. I then started doing volunteer work with Connexions. I first started doing the youth panels where I helped Connexions hire people for certain job posts. I then started to do the grant panels deciding on which different projects to fund. I have also been trained to be a young inspector and have been taken part in peer research programmes. I have been to Westminister representing teenage mums and also met Gordon Brown for a question and answer session. While at the Parents under 20 group, I did the Speakeasy course. I know now that I want to work with young people, especially young parents, and I am starting college to do a youth and community course and hopefully head on to university.
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