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Training Materials This interactive guide and the accompanying full toolkit (PDF) provide practitioners with user-friendly, hands-on resources to support the implementation of new program components or services. The resources are organized into three main sections that correlate with major phases of the process, Ready, Set, and Go!, each of which involves several substeps.
Ready guides programs through steps to prepare for program changes.
Set helps programs create a foundation and put things in place… Audio recording
Dr. Armon Perry is a Professor in the Kent School of Social Work at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, and also Project Director of the 4 Your Child fatherhood program. He began his career as a social worker helping children and families involved in the child welfare system.
In this DadTalk podcast, he talks about his decision to earn his doctorate in order to help prepare new social workers to better engage with fathers, and how he obtained funding for the 4 Your Child program and a supplemental co-parenting component.
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Training Materials 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.
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Training Materials 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.
Fatherhood Summit Session
Family services programs are also in the business of serving fathers. How can they become more father friendly? This session drew on the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse’s (NRFC) Responsible Fatherhood Toolkit: Resources from the Field and the shared experiences of participants. The workshop explored the most effective ways to recruit and engage fathers to improve outcomes for families and children.
Presenters focused on hiring, training, and supporting staff, conducting successful outreach and recruitment, and delivering effective services. The presenters also shared tips…
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Training Materials 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.
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Training Materials 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…
Fatherhood Summit Session
Success in fatherhood service provision goes beyond the use of a curriculum. It requires the ability to lead a team and to create and execute a programmatic vision. This session encouraged participants to assess their own leadership styles and evaluate their impact on programming. The session provided intentional leadership strategies to enhance programming. Presenters offered nine leadership principles that build trust and empower others in order to improve morale and productivity. They described how effective leadership builds program sustainability.
Fatherhood Summit Session
The Ad Council’s images and slogans are woven into the very fabric of American pop culture, and fatherhood is part of that! This session will show how the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse’s media campaign (funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families) has spread the word nationally that fathers are essential in their children’s lives. Participants will hear how the media campaign has inspired fathers across the country to “take time to be a dad today,” and the presenter will describe the positive effect of the campaign on …
Fatherhood Summit Session
Learning how to write grant proposals is vital for funding and sustaining the important work that is changing lives in many communities across the country. Nevertheless, many new agencies—and veteran ones as well—can find it challenging to secure grant funding.
This session will provide step-by-step instructions to create stronger grant applications. The presenter will discuss proven tips and strategies, including how to prepare before a proposal is written, what advance research to conduct, and what language to use. The presentation will provide a sample sponsorship letter and a sample…
