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The NRFC Library is a collection of materials to build a knowledge base around fathers, fatherhood, and operating a Responsible Fatherhood program. It also houses all resources created by the NRFC, including fact sheets, PSAs, and past webinars.

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Learn, Innovate, Improve (LI2): Enhancing Programs and Improving Lives.

The Learn, Innovate, Improve (LI2) process is a systematic, evidence-informed approach to program improvement. LI2 involves a series of analytic and replicable activities, supported by collaboration between practitioners and applied researchers, to help human services programs design, implement,…

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Fact Sheet

Engaging and Supporting Native Fathers: Targeted Resources for Tribal Child Welfare

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

Fact Sheet

Partnering with Fathers: Techniques for Strengthening Home Visits

Home visits provide a unique opportunity to assess parents’ child-rearing skills and to provide targeted services to assist responsible adults in growing healthy families. If you are a home visitor, you are probably already aware of some of the barriers that you must confront when attempting to achieve these goals. Often one of those barriers is the reluctance of fathers and men in families to recognize the importance of their participation in home visits. This tends to be true across a wide range of cultures, income levels, and educational backgrounds. In order to engage fathers and men…

Fact Sheet

OFA Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Grant: Summary Of Lessons Learned.

During the last five years we have had the privilege of partnering with selected Parents as Teachers (PAT) sites through the Office of Family Assistance Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Grant to enhance father involvement. We learned many lessons as partner sites provided group meetings in urban, rural, and military communities that spanned a range of demographics. Our PAT sites experienced a wide array of successes and challenges, sometimes unique to their community. These experiences provide the foundation for this summary of lessons learned.

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Successful Strategies for Recruiting, Training, and Utilizing Volunteers.

Successful Strategies for Recruiting, Training, and Utilizing Volunteers is a guidance handbook designed for community groups and faith-based organizations seeking to maximize the skills of their volunteers, expand their services to the community, and enhance their effectiveness. Although the handbook focuses on prevention, treatment, and recovery services for substance abuse and mental illness, the principles described in the handbook can be applied to any field and should help organizations understand how to implement and manage a successful volunteer program.

The five chapters…

Fact Sheet

Tip Card for Fatherhood Practitioners: Building Effective Partnerships.

This tip card offers strategies on how to identify potential partners, communicate expectations, collaborate on shared topics of interests, and build effective partnerships. The strategies provided will help to create stronger agencies that can enhance funding applications and increase outcomes for the community.

Fact Sheet

Tip Card for Fatherhood Practitioners: Program Attendance and Retention

This tip card offers strategies for fatherhood practitioners to increase program attendance and retention and effective practices to foster father engagement.

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How to Use “Defining Moments” to Change Dads’ Lives.

This ebook introduces you to a book that has the potential to help you have even more impact in your work with dads. The book is called The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact. Written by brothers Chip Heath and Dan Heath, the New York Times Bestseller draws on research about how to create meaningful, memorable experiences in the lives of individuals— others’ and even your own. The Heath’s point to four ways to create such experiences, what they call “defining moments”: 1. Elevation 2. Insight 3. Pride 4. Connection. A key concept to remember is that a…

Fact Sheet

Tip Card for Fatherhood Practitioners: Recruitment

This tip card offers fatherhood practitioners tips on outreach and recruitment methods.

Fact Sheet

Tip Card for Fatherhood Practitioners: Group Facilitation.

This tip card offers guidance to fatherhood practitioners who are facilitating groups. Participation in peer learning and support groups is a key ingredient of many fatherhoodprograms. When done effectively, group sessions can be the “glue” that keeps men involved in a wider program and leadsto powerful life changes for them and their families.

Fact Sheet

Spotlight on Rural Fatherhood Programs.

One of the goals of fatherhood programming is to improve the lives of children by enhancing fathers’ emotional and financial support and encouraging healthy family dynamics. Programs do this through a focus on child development and appropriate parenting skills, the value of fathers’ positive engagement with their children, and the provision of connections to social support systems for fathers. However, rural fatherhood programs may need to address these topics in unique and creative ways due to some of the practical challenges of providing services in rural areas.

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