This resource provides many links to selected articles, programs, and resources that focus on engaging and supporting Native fathers.
Divorce is a stressful process for families. One parent being incarcerated further complicates several aspects of the family relationship, such as communication, custody arrangements, child support, and relationship maintenance. This guide is part of a series aimed at helping families in which parents are separated or divorcing and who share parenting responsibilities for children.
This toolkit offers strategies to health care providers, communities, and local governments for developing practices and policies to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. Access reports for community members, prescribers, patients and families, and those recovering from opioid overdose. (Author Abstract)
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Training Materials This guide is intended to guide fathers in meeting the emotional and financial needs of their children.
Many youth with disabilities have difficulty understanding social situations or navigating interpersonal events such as speaking in front of a class or doing job interviews. They may benefit from building and practicing social skills. These skills allow a person to interact appropriately with other people and handle difficult situations. It is important that youth have the opportunity to identify and practice these skills because they can significantly impact employment, relationships, and how well they are connected in the community as adults. Families, educators, and youth themselves can…
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Training Materials This co-parenting curriculum was designed to achieve these expected results: 1) Expecting and parenting youth are equipped with the knowledge and skills to create a nurturing environment for their children; 2) Expecting and parenting youth are equipped with the skills to establish a positive co-parenting relationship (i.e., able to effectively communicate and problem solve); 3) Parents co-create a parenting plan/pledge that enables them to work together to promote the well-being for their child; and 4) Ongoing and sustained involvement of both parents, especially the non-custodial parent,…
This fact sheet provides information about the important role that fathers play in their children's lives, and lists actions that fathers can take to provide quality care.
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Training Materials This compilation includes materials for professionals providing services to young fathers. The first section includes a factsheet that describes the benefits of young fathers’ positive involvement with their child and child’s mother. The second section includes an assessment and checklist to help organizations identify their strengths and areas for growth in working with young fathers and provides steps to make all aspects of programs more young-father-friendly. A workbook is then provided that includes interactive activities that will help fathers, mothers, and program staff learn more about…
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Training Materials The New Mexico Alliance for School-Based Health Care, as a contractor for the New Mexico Public Education Department, GRADS Plus grant, has created and collected a series of tools to increase the health literacy of young people who are pregnant/expectant and parenting. These tools may be useful directly for these young people or for adults who support them (e.g. teachers, health care providers, etc.). The goal of these documents is to assist in guiding young people as they navigate, for themselves and their children, the complicated U.S. health care system. These tools may be of use to any…
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Training Materials Published by the Rural Health Information Hub, the Rural Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Toolkit is designed to help practitioners develop, implement, evaluate, and sustain rural programs to prevent and treat substance abuse. The toolkit is made up of several modules that focus on evidence-based and promising programs, implementation, evaluation, sustainability, and dissemination. (Author abstract modified)
