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It is easier and more effective to help children and adolescents establish healthy behaviors that prevent chronic disease than it is to change unhealthy behaviors during adulthood. This webpage explains how the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion works with parents, early care and education facilities, schools, health systems, and communities to keep children healthy.

Parents as Teachers Fatherhood Toolkit is a compilation of materials to enrich and enhance programs serving fathers in home visiting programs. Parents as Teachers builds strong communities, thriving families and children that are healthy, safe and ready to learn by matching parents and caregivers with trained professionals who make regular personal home visits during a child’s earliest years in life, from prenatal through kindergarten.

This is a resource for home visiting programs looking to increase the involvement of fathers. For the purpose of this toolkit, a father includes not only the biological father, but any male caregiver who can be engaged in services. The Father Engagement Advisory Group, which included representatives from the state offices and local sites of Healthy Families Florida, Healthy Start, and Florida MIECHV, came to consensus on this definition.

This resource can help practitioners and service providers determine their organizations' readiness to provide services to fathers and father-figures. The chart breaks down key areas that organizations working with fathers would typically consider and how their actions can support those key areas to properly support fathers. 

The one-day Social Worker Training Curriculum: Engaging the Non-Resident Father was designed to provide participants with knowledge to support a practice shift toward engaging non-resident fathers in child welfare cases involving their children. The need to engage fathers initially resulted from the federal Child and Family Service Reviews (CFSRs) and the “What About the Dads?” report, which identified a lack of meaningful engagement of fathers by child welfare systems. This curriculum was funded by the QIC-NRF, which was designed to develop knowledge and research that determine how…

A Conversation—Men: What You Can Say and Do to Make a Difference promotes talking points for practitioners working with violent men and/or their families. This guide outlines promoting change, what women can say when in danger, what to say to a child witness, and why men batter.

This interactive curriculum was developed by Parents as Teachers National Center. The 12 sections of Focus on Fathering target child development, connecting with your child, parenting apart, healthy relationships, and more. Each section contains goals, activities, discussion points, materials, and procedures and guidance for practitioners working with the families involved.

Re‐entry involves the use of programs targeted at promoting the effective reintegration of offenders offenders back to communities communities upon release release from prison and jail. Re‐entry programming programming, which often involves a comprehensive case management approach, is intended to assist offenders in acquiring the life skills needed to succeed in the community and become law‐abiding citizens.

The 3R Project Project envisions envisions the development development of model programs programs that begin in the correctional correctional institution and continue…