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Free Webinar > Fathers' Attendance in Fatherhood Programs

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Melissa Byers
Melissa Byers Melissa is the Chief Marketing Officer at National Fatherhood Initiative® (NFI). Melissa oversees the organization's marketing, communications, graphic design, and product fulfillment functions.

The Fatherhood Research & Practice Network (FRPN) will host its 10th learning community webinar in early February.

Inside the Black Box, Part 2: Fathers’ Attendance in Fatherhood Programs will take place on Tuesday, February 6, 2018 from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. EST.

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NFI is committed to helping you help dads. And as part of our work, NFI's President Christopher A. Brown serves on the FRPN steering committee.

As a reminder, the FRPN seeks to:

  • Promote rigorous evaluation of fatherhood programs.
  • Expand the number of researchers and practitioners collaborating to evaluate these programs.
  • Disseminate information that leads to effective fatherhood practice and evaluation research.

The upcoming FRPN webinar, Inside the Black Box, Part 2: Fathers’ Attendance in Fatherhood Programs, focuses on participant attendance in fatherhood programs. Practitioners will discuss rates of attendance, factors that affect it and methods of increasing it. Researchers will describe approaches to measuring attendance in fatherhood programs, the effects of attendance on fathers’ outcomes and future directions for studying it.

Presenters include:
-Kirk Berry, People for People Inc.
-Guy Bowling, ‎Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota FATHER Project
-Jay Fagan, FRPN, Temple University
-Brenda Oyer, The RIDGE Project, Inc.

Register for the webinar here.

 
 

Date Published: 01/15/2018

Last Updated: 11/30/2018

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