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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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Fatherhood Tools at Your Fingertips: The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse

Many in the fatherhood field are unaware of a helpful bank of information and support available at their fingertips. This session explored the many resources provided by the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC). Participants took a guided tour of the Fatherhood.gov website to…

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Fact Sheet

Why You Should Talk with Your Child About Alcohol and Other Drugs

SAMHSA presents five reasons that parents should talk with their children about alcohol and other drugs.

Fact Sheet

Growing Up with Vaccines: What Should Parents Know?

Why Vaccinate? On-time vaccination throughout childhood is essential because it helps provide immunity before children are exposed to potentially life-threatening diseases. Vaccines are tested to ensure that they are safe and effective for children to receive at the recommended ages.

Fact Sheet

Booklets & Fact Sheet - American Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association

ACPA Family Services offers information about cleft and craniofacial care. ACPA's educational materials are written for individuals and families affected by cleft and craniofacial experts.

ACPA Family Services ofrece información sobre el cuidado craneofacial y de fisuras. Los materiales educativos de la ACPA están escritos para las personas y familias afectadas por expertos en hendiduras y craneofaciales.

Fact Sheet

What are Childhood Mental Disorders?

Mental health is not simply the absence of a mental disorder. Children who don’t have a mental disorder might differ in how well they are doing, and children who have the same diagnosed mental disorder might differ in their strengths and weaknesses in how they are developing and coping, and in their quality of life. Mental health as a continuum and the identification of specific mental disorders are both ways to understand how well children are doing.

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.

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Dangerous Masculinity: Fatherhood, Race, and Security Inside America's Prisons

For incarcerated fathers, prison rather than work mediates access to their families. Prison rules and staff regulate phone privileges, access to writing materials, and visits. Perhaps even more important are the ways in which the penal system shapes men’s gender performances. Incarcerated men must negotiate how they will enact violence and aggression, both in terms of the expectations placed upon inmates by the prison system and in terms of their own responses to these expectations. Additionally, the relationships between incarcerated men and the mothers of their children change,…

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Fathers and Their Children in the First Three Years of Life: An Anthropological Perspective

How ancient is father care of human infants and young children, and why did it emerge? Is it possible that father care arose among the ancestors of modern humans and became essential for survival? Or is it a recent, though variable, development? Is father care an evolved trait of Homo sapiens or is it a learned cultural behavior transmitted across generations in some societies but not others? In this important study, Frank L’Engle Williams examines the anthropological record for evidence of the social behaviors associated with paternity, suggesting that ample evidence exists for the…

Fact Sheet

Supporting Non-Residential Fathers: Shedding Biases And Enhancing Effective Parenting Partnerships.

There are many predictors of successful fatherhood involvement. One of the key predictors that I found in my work with families was the father’s relationship with the children’s mother as well as whether the father was a resident or non-resident of the home. Specifically looking at predictors of father involvement, fathers who have a better relationship with the children’s mother tend to have more access to their children (Cabrera, Tamis-LeMonda, Bradley, Hofferth, & Lamb, 2000; Coley & Hernandez, 2006). During my work, I have noticed that human service agencies are more tailored…

Fact Sheet

Facilitating Quality Father Groups

While individual home or office visits can be invaluable in your work with fathers, for many fathers it is participation in a group with other men that is most meaningful. I’ve heard fatherhood group work described as the “glue” that keeps men involved in a wider program and leads to powerful life changes for them and their families. For this to occur, a fatherhood group needs to be built and facilitated on a foundation of trust that encourages self-reflection, personal sharing, group support, and ongoing growth.

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…

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