TRAVERSE CITY — A program that helps teen mothers in the Grand Traverse region might be delivered to a new home.

The Doula Teen Parent Program has been administered by the Women’s Resource Center since 2006. But organizers hope someone else will take over the program, which serves more than 70 young pregnant women and parents in the region.

Women’s Resource Center for the Grand Traverse Area Executive Director Juliette Schultz said board members directed staff to look for another group to take over the program after they determined it didn’t fit directly with the organization’s mission of ending domestic and sexual violence.

“Domestic violence is not the main presenting issue,” she said. “The issue is teen pregnancy.”

The program has been borne by different agencies since its conception in 1977. Schultz said officials are not cutting the program.

“Our goal is to find the right home for the Doula Teen Parent Program,” Schultz said. “At this stage we’ve had dialogue with nine different partners and have kind of whittled that down to a group of core partners who either raised their hand and said, ‘We want to continue this conversation,’ and, ‘This is important to us, and we feel this might be a good fit.’”

The program is housed inside Traverse City High School.

Marjie Rich worked as the doula program director until December 2015. She said the doula program fits within the Women’s Resource Center because many pregnant young women experience domestic and sexual violence. But she could also envision the program under a different organization’s umbrella.

“It is multi-disciplinary, the needs and issues this program addresses. Every organization in our community has this little niche, and this program crosses many of those agencies,” she said. “Where it’s housed is probably less important that maintaining its mission as a program, which is to support these young women with their pregnancies and with their children as parents.”