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In this National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse information brief, Dr. Andrew Freeberg, Director of Family Stability for Goodwill- Easter Seals Minnesota, draws on his 20 years of experience overseeing the organization’s FATHER Project to provide a case study of leadership, innovation, and sustainability. He also shares strategies that other leaders of fatherhood programs might employ.

During this webinar, the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse's (NRFC) social media and analytics experts presented industry-tested social media strategies to optimize practitioners’ engagement and connection with their target populations and communities.

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Facilitator: Akua Gyabaah, Website and Dissemination Lead, NRFC

Chat Moderator: Jerome Williams, Conference Coordinator, NRFC 

Este seminario web permitió a la NRFC y a otras partes interesadas conectarse con los profesionales que actualmente sirven a los padres latinos para discutir las prácticas prometedoras con respecto a la prestación de servicios que son cultural y lingüísticamente apropiados e inclusivos.

Durante este seminario web, nos centramos en consejos y estrategias para reclutar, involucrar y retener a los padres latinos en los programas de paternidad.

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Taffy Compain, CPM Jefa de Rama, Oficina de Asistencia Familiar, Administración para Niños y Familias,…

Healthy relationships, including coparenting and romantic relationships, are critical to the health and well-being of fathers and families. Supporting these relationships is therefore a key goal of many fatherhood programs. During COVID-19, fathers have faced a number of challenges that may affect their romantic and coparenting relationships. These include increased unemployment, issues around child access and visitation, and difficulties navigating work-from-home arrangements. At the same time, COVID-19 created unique hurdles for fatherhood programs in providing services to fathers. In…

A program cannot succeed without strong implementation, but what is it that helps programs thrive? At the request of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Mathematica visited 17 healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood (HMRF) grantees in spring and early summer 2019 to learn more about implementation of their grants and to identify factors that might help or hinder successful implementation. We talked to leaders and staff members from grantee and partner organizations, who were generous in discussing their experiences, successes, and challenges in operating their HMRF…

A range of programs within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) encourage state and local human services agencies to recognize fathers’ contributions to and desire to be involved in their children’s lives and facilitate ongoing economic contributions and family involvement. As family structures have become increasingly complex, there is a growing interest in developing full-family service models and an increasing need to identify and apply effective father engagement approaches across human services program areas. Programs focused primarily on serving fathers, such as…

This resource provides many links to selected articles, programs, and resources that focus on engaging and supporting Native fathers.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services promotes the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities. Many ACF programs interact with and serve fathers in an effort to promote economic self-sufficiency and social well-being for them and their families. Across ACF, we are implementing rigorous research and evaluation projects to better understand how to serve fathers and their families. This brief describes ongoing research and evaluation projects related to 1) ACF’s Responsible Fatherhood…

This Virtual Open House  was held on June 29, 2020 from 2:30-3:30PM ET and invited website users to discover the new NRFC Virtual Collaborative Community (VCC) and refreshed fatherhood.gov site.

The NRFC Virtual Collaborative Community is a new online platform for fatherhood practitioners to engage in dialogue around program planning and implementation, running a program, working with special populations, and other relevant topics to fatherhood. National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse team members virtually walk the audience through the VCC…

In October 2019, FRPN released a Request for Proposal inviting states to apply for small planning grants to develop long-term plans to enhance father inclusion in state programs and policies. Twenty states applied for a nine-month FRPN planning grant and in January 2019, FRPN made awards of $10,000 to 11 states: Colorado, Connecticut, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Washington, and Wyoming.  FRPN funders/researchers supported the statewide planning teams by: preparing a logic model for each planning site highlighting their proposed…