Archives High Schools: Georgia Chaffee TAPP

Official Name: Georgia Chaffee Teenage Parent Program

Year Opened: 1968

The Teen-Age Parent Program (TAPP) began as a joint program of the Louisville Public Schools and the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).  The program originally offered classroom services in the old Fenner Memorial Lutheran Church building at 2100 West Jefferson Street. In September 1970 the program moved to the downtown branch of the YWCA at 604 S. 3rd Street for increased classroom space and a central location.  In 1973 the program relocated again, going to the former Mary D. Hill School building on Kentucky Street.  It moved to the former Emerson Elementary School in 1975 and became Emerson TAPP. In 1989, a second TAPP opened in the former South Park Elementary School in Fairdale. The Emerson TAPP closed in 1994 and the Program was reopened in the former Westport Road Vocational School. In 2018, the South Park and Westport Programs were merged into one.

The Teenage Parent Program, provides an academic program with in-house medical and social services support to reduce pregnancy-related school dropouts.  Georgia Chaffee led the Teenage Parent Program in the district for 28 years and the program was named for her in 1995.