Fatherhood Listening/Rap Session 2

Introducing Fatherhood Coordinator Listening/Rap Session Series:
Calling all Fatherhood Coordinators and those supporting fatherhood/male involvement programming! We are building upon the Fatherhood Talk Tuesday Series by offering two more virtual opportunities for Healthy Start programs currently serving fathers and those planning to serve fathers. We will to share resources, tools, and tips related to successful fatherhood/male involvement programming. We will also integrate a short video or music clip related to the rap session topics and discuss recent and upcoming Healthy Start fatherhood events.
These meetings are specifically for Fatherhood Coordinators and others involved in staffing and/or facilitating the activities related to male involvement/male engagement services.
Each meeting will be 90 minutes and will feature one or more presentations from grantees, group discussion, and sharing of some tools like Logic Models or PDSA Cycles for fatherhood programming enhancements and quality improvement.
To sign up for the sessions please email Durrell Fox at [email protected]

Father/Partner Involvement Parenting Education Partner Involvement

Fatherhood Listening/Rap Session 1

Introducing Fatherhood Coordinator Listening/Rap Session Series:

Calling all Fatherhood Coordinators and those supporting fatherhood/male involvement programming! We are building upon the Fatherhood Talk Tuesday Series by offering two more virtual opportunities for Healthy Start programs currently serving fathers and those planning to serve fathers. We will to share resources, tools, and tips related to successful fatherhood/male involvement programming. We will also integrate a short video or music clip related to the rap session topics and discuss recent and upcoming Healthy Start fatherhood events.

These meetings are specifically for Fatherhood Coordinators and others involved in staffing and/or facilitating the activities related to male involvement/male engagement services.

Each meeting will be 90 minutes and will feature one or more presentations from grantees, group discussion, and sharing of some tools like Logic Models or PDSA Cycles for fatherhood programming enhancements and quality improvement.

See the slides from the event here, and don’t miss the next Fatherhood Coordinator Listening/Rap Session on April 30.

Father/Partner Involvement Parenting Education Partner Involvement

Boston Basics

The Boston Basics Campaign is inspired by the fact that 80% of brain growth happens in the first three years of life. During this period, skill gaps between socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic groups become clearly apparent, but this does not need to be. Everyday interactions between children, their parents, and other caregivers provide abundant opportunities to give children from every background a more equal start in life. The Basics are five, fun, simple, and powerful ways that every family can give every child a strong start beginning from birth: 1) maximize love, manage stress, 2) talk, sing and point, 3) count, group and compare, 4) explore through movement and play, and 5) read and discuss stories. The Basics Community Toolkit provides multi-media resources that healthcare and community-based organizations can use to engage and support parents and other caregivers in practicing these basics.The Boston Basics website and materials are also available in Spanish.

Parenting Education Socio-emotional Development for Children

Preconception Health

This resource from the CDC defines and discusses the importance of preconception health. It features a link to 10 important steps and considerations for women planning to become pregnant. Another link for women not planning a pregnancy discusses 10 healthy habits of benefit should she become pregnant in the future, or even if she decides not to have children. A third link provides similar guidance for men with 10 recommendations for healthy living.

Partner Involvement Reproductive Life Planning/Family Planning

Responsible Fatherhood Toolkit: Resources from the Field

This toolkit presents a compilation of resources that highlight the challenges and key issues associated with launching and sustaining a successful fatherhood program. It covers topics such as: building an effective fatherhood program,effectively engaging fathers, cultivating community partners, recruiting and training staff, serving fathers with specific barriers, and promoting sustainability. The toolkit provides tips and suggestions from experienced practitioners, activities for use with fathers in one-to-one or group sessions, tools from model programs to use and share with fathers, and other helpful resources.

Intimate Partner Violence Partner Involvement Socio-emotional Development for Children

Preventing Intimate Partner Violence Across the Lifespan: A Technical Package of Programs, Policies and Practices

This technical package represents a select group of evidence-based strategies and approaches to help programs, communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and its consequences across the lifespan. These strategies include teaching safe and healthy relationship skills; engaging influential adults and peers; disrupting the developmental pathways toward IPV; creating protective environments; strengthening economic supports for families; and supporting survivors to increase safety and lessen harms. Commitment, cooperation, and leadership from numerous sectors, including public health, education, justice, health care, social services, business and labor, and government can bring about the successful implementation of this package.

Intimate Partner Violence Life Course Model Parenting Education Partner Involvement

The Good Road of Life

This culture-based program uses sources of strength such as spirituality, humor, and healing to assist Native men and their family members address the impact of colonization, trauma, racism and other challenges that threaten the well-being of children and families. The curriculum for Native men is designed to assist Native men reclaim their roles as brave warriors, fathers, and husbands who provide for and protect their families and communities. The curriculum for Native families is designed to assist Native men, women, and their children to address unresolved conflicts in relationships, improve communication skills, and keep Native families together.

Alcohol/Drug Services Depression Intimate Partner Violence Partner Involvement

2018 Prevention Resource Guide

This prevention resource guide offers information, strategies, and resources to support community service providers as they work with parents, caregivers, and children to prevent child maltreatment and promote social and emotional well-being. The guide focuses on protective factors that build on family strengths and promote optimal child and youth development. Information about protective factors is augmented with tools and strategies that help providers, advocates and policymakers integrate the factors into community programs and systems. The guide includes tip sheets for parents in English and Spanish on a range of parenting and child development topics.

Intimate Partner Violence Life Course Model Parenting Education Partner Involvement Socio-emotional Development for Children

Promundo: Program P: A Manual for Engaging Men in Fatherhood, Caregiving, and Maternal and Child Health

Program P is a resource developed as part of the global MenCare campaign coordinated by Promundo and the Sonke Gender Justice Network. The manual outlines concrete strategies for engaging men in active caregiving from their partner’s pregnancy through their child’s early years, and preventing violence against women and children. It includes tools to aid in creating open spaces for men in the clinic setting, detailed guidance on providing gender-transformative group education for men, and advice on encouraging community mobilization around fatherhood, child protection, maternal and child health and gender equality. It is available in 5 languages.

Intimate Partner Violence Parenting Education Partner Involvement Prenatal Care and Education

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