National Fatherhood initiative Program setting News

From the Herald Bulletin (Indiana)

The program will provide the group and fathers who join the organization the teaching skills to teach other dads the four basic curriculums necessary to implement the success model developed by the National Fatherhood Initiative. The four curriculums are: 24/7 A.M. Dad Fathering concepts, 24/7 Dad P.M. Fathering concepts, A Dad’s Boot Camp and New Mentality concepts.

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Community Education Centers, Inc. recently partnered with the National Fatherhood Initiative's® (NFI) InsideOut Dad™ program for a highly successful research project aimed at helping incarcerated fathers form healthy relationships with their children and families. NFI is the nation's leading provider of community-based fatherhood resources, and after a national search, the group chose CEC's residential facilities to deliver their program based on the company's industry-leading family services program.

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United Way of Northern New Jersey invites fathers and fathers-to-be to a free 12-week parenting program. It is the United Way Family Success Center's third installment of the Fathers Empowered to Learn Lead and Achieve Success or FELLAS program, based on the National Fatherhood Initiative's curriculum.

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Lorain County — which already offers programs designed to offer help to fathers and strengthen their relationships with family — was selected as one of 12 in the state to create such a countywide program and become eligible for a $10,000 one-time seed grant from the state commission.

The group also heard from Ron J. Clark, director of national programming for the National Fatherhood Initiative, who was raised by his mother with four siblings in the Washington, D.C., area.

Clark said society has been far more likely to allocate money and resources to helping mothers and children.

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The idea is to prepare felons for parenting challenges they'll face later by getting them to communicate with their children now. Developed by the National Fatherhood Initiative, the "InsideOut Dad" program is meant to motivate offenders to stay out of prison by boosting family ties. Statistics from the Maryland-based nonprofit show children without fathers around are more likely to be poor, drop out of school and end up in prison themselves.

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Reno was among a dozen inmates at the medium-security Cheyenne Mountain Re-entry Center in Colorado Springs who spent two months before Father’s Day learning how to live up to the label.

They were the first group to volunteer for the prison’s new InsideOut Dad program, a kind of Fatherhood for Felons 101.

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The Berkshire County Sheriff's Office has signed on to a national program aimed at improving relationships and communications skills between fathers and at-risk children.

The "24-7 Dad" program was originated by the National Fatherhood Initiative of Germantown, Pa., a nonprofit advocacy group founded in 1994 to engage fathers living apart from their families in the lives of their children.

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"Using the 24/7 Dad curriculum developed by the National Fatherhood Initiative, and support from local organizations, including the Irvington Family Development Center, Y Program Coordinators Daryl Brown and Adalberto Velazquez led workshops, coordinated speakers and organized family outings for Dads and their families."

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"According to data from the National Fatherhood Initiative, infants with involved fathers are less likely to live in poverty, drop out of school, engage in risky behaviors or suffer from emotional and behavioral issues."

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"In 2010, Y2K won a federal grant from the National Fatherhood Initiative to build its capacity to provide responsible fatherhood services to local Dads."

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"The National Fatherhood Initiative released a report in 2008 that calculated the direct costs of fatherless homes at $99.8 billion. That includes federal payments to 13 benefits programs — such as food and housing programs — to single mother households, and the cost of enforcement of child support payments."

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...He and 15-year-old Marcus Watson, who both are enrolled at the Lycoming County Day Treatment Center, were presented certificates Wednesday for completing the "24/7 Dad" program, a six-week course designed to teach juvenile males how to be good fathers....

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...But talk to him about his accomplishments, and it’s clear that the one thing he is most proud of is the fact he is a dad — a good dad, a “24/7 Dad.”...

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In 2010, NFI contracted with the National Guard to provide over 40 installations with key fatherhood resources to help fathers and families stay connected through the stresses of military life. 

Installations across the country received resources like the Deployed Fathers and Families Guide, which helps families develop a plan for deployment, and The 7 Habits of a 24/7 Dad, a one-day workshop that installations can use to engage and educate fathers.

For more information on how NFI equips military families, visit www.fatherhood.org/military.       

The InsideOut Dad program continues to grow as both Michigan and South Carolina standardize the curriculum for their reentry programs.  

InsideOut Dad has been proven to increase fathers confidence and knowledge and connect them to their children, and preliminary research shows that it may help decrease recidivism rates.

For more information, visit www.fatherhood.org/insideoutdad.  

Facilitators from across the country attended NFI's Double Training Institute to learn how to successfully implement our core fatherhood programs: 24/7 Dad™ and InsideOut Dad™!  This annual training is a great opportunity for organizations to get the training they need to grow their father involvement efforts.

NFI offers a variety of training options.  For more information on how you can get trained to facilitate our curricula, visit www.fatherhood.org/training.

NFI President Roland C. Warren spoke at National Healthy Start Association's recent Congressional Briefing on Infant Mortality.  The U.S. has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the developed world, and there is a clear tie to father absence.  Research shows that father absent homes have some of the highest rates of infant mortality.

Programs like Doctor Dad are being used by organizations across the country to educate fathers and lower infant morality rates.  For more information on our healthcare resources, visit www.fatherhood.org/healthcare.  

NFI's resources can help accomplish program requirements listed in several upcoming grant opportunities for states and territories: 

State Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP)
 
Title V State Abstinence Education Grant Program

Our resources encourage youth to delay becoming parents, help teens who are already parents, and promote parent-child communication - all of which are requirements listed in these grants. 

For more information on how we can help you attain funding, please contact Roseanne Martin, Programming Support Consultant. 

More and more facilities are using InsideOut Dad Christian to break the cycle of incarceration.  Developed through a partnership with Prison Fellowship, this program gives men the skills and knowledge they need to connect with their families and prepare for reentry.

InsideOut Dad Christian “speaks to the man—not at him,” says Raeanne Hance, executive director of Prison Fellowship Florida.  “Volunteers . . . love the curriculum. They love the principles that are being taught.”

Click here to learn more about InsideOut Dad Christian.

Twenty state Departments of Corrections now consider InsideOut Dad to be standardized reentry programming!  Delaware has just announced that the InsideOut Dad program will be an official part of their state efforts.

"The [Delaware] Department of Correction will commit to parnering with the National Fatherhood Initiative to engage and support the men who have children as they transition from our facilities to our communities," said Commissioner Carl C. Danberg.  "We cannot accomplish all that we want in helping those in our custody return successfully to the community without the private and nonprofit community organizations' support."  View the full list of states that have standardized InsideOut Dad.

National Fatherhood Initiative's When Duct Tape Won't Work™ CD-ROM for new and expectant dads is a distinguished iParenting Media Award Winner. When Duct Tape Won't Work™ was carefully evaluated by childcare experts and by parents and was chosen out of thousands of awards!  See what the reviewers said.

24/7 Dad™ is being implemented as part of an innovative housing program by the Indiana Department of Correction.  Read more about this exciting program

NFI's Greg Austen, Director of Corrections Programming, recently interviewed with WTSA Radio in Brattleboro, VT. See what he had to say on father absence and recidivism.  Listen to the radio interview

1. Christian Heritage in Lincoln, NE
2. Tecumseh State Correctional Institution in Tecumseh, NE