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This National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse
(NRFC) spotlight provides an overview of key
points from the April 22, 2020 webinar Using Virtual
Technology in Fatherhood Programs.
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This toolkit includes information on how to implement and evaluate an array of Father Engagement strategies that might be similar to ones you have already implemented or are thinking about implementing, which are aligned with your organizational needs. The website is the result of a pilot project involving the child welfare agencies from 11 counties in California interested in implementing father engagement strategies most suitably aligned with each county's organizational goals. This toolkit aligns with the California Common Core Curricula for Child Welfare Workers.
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…
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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Fatherhood events are a great way to celebrate dads and broadcast the message that dads matter to your community. They can help create a positive relationship between your organization and the community it serves. They can also act as a marketing vehicle to recruit dads to your fatherhood program or other father-serving efforts. The following steps will help practitioners have a successful fatherhood event. (Author introduction modified)
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On behalf of the Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Building Bridges and Bonds (B3) study partnered with Responsible Fatherhood programs and experts in the field to identify high-priority questions and emerging service approaches. Programs use a number of promising models to work with fathers, but rigorous studies have not yet shown which are effective and worth expanding or replicating.
The B3 team is rigorously evaluating three new and emerging service approaches…
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.
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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This webinar focuses on participant attendance in fatherhood programs. Practitioners presenting discuss rates of attendance, factors that affect it and methods of increasing it. Featured researchers describe approaches to measuring attendance in fatherhood programs, the effects of attendance on fathers’ outcomes and future directions for studying it. (Author abstract modified)
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This toolkit is intended as an online tool for programs, states, and tribes where promising practices, programs, and resources are made available on family engagement, described in current research literature as a series of intentional interventions that work together in an integrated way to promote safety, permanency and well being for children, youth, and families. The toolkit can provide an opportunity to connect with colleagues and share program successes and challenges. For this toolkit, we have chosen a few examples and recognize that they are by no means the only programs using some of…
