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Training Materials To carry out their responsibilities of protecting children at risk of maltreatment, CPS caseworkers must effectively engage families that often both present and face great challenges. These can include substance abuse, mental health problems, economic stress, unemployment, separation and divorce, inadequate housing, crime, and incarceration. Figuring out how best to work with and engage these families, always with the safety of and permanency for the child as the goal, is not easy. This manual also speaks to both the opportunities and challenges presented by one participant in the family…
The Daddy Pack is a set of resources for expectant dads and dads of young children that contains informative skill-building brochures and an interactive CD-ROM. Each Daddy Pack contains: "So You're a New Father or About to Become One" brochure; "Keeping Your Child Safe from Infant to Toddler" brochure; "10 Ways to Be a Better Dad" brochure; and Directions for Dads, an interactive CD-ROM with fathering information. This report is a summary of findings from an assessment of fathers who received the pack. (Author abstract)