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Fatherhood Resources

National Fatherhood Initiative

Focuses on educating the public on father involvement, offering curricula, training, and technical assistance to professionals, and engaging all sectors of society in supporting father involvement with children.

National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse

Provides information on fatherhood issues for professionals running fatherhood programs, Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage grantees, and anyone interested in fatherhood issues.

National Latino Fatherhood and Family Institute

Offers conferences, training, and consulting for professionals in working with Latino fathers and families.  Helps fathers enhance their role in their children's lives.  Addresses issues such as child abuse, teen pregnancy, domestic violence, illiteracy, and other issues.

National Practitioners' Network for Fathers and Families, Inc.

Aims to promote collaboration and professionalism among people working with fathers and families through conferences, publications, training, and other venues.

National Partnership for Community Leadership

Offers training, techinical assistance, conferences, forums, and assistance in writing grant proposals for programs that work with fathers and families.

Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development

Up-to-date information from experts on topics related to the psychosocial development of young children.  For each topic, the site addresses why it's important, current conclusive data, and information on what can be done to improve services, policies, and research.  From: The Center of Excellence for Early Childhood Development

Department of Health and Human Services: Promoting Responsible Fatherhood

Federal government resource site on responsible fatherhood.

Family and Corrections Network

Resources for incarcerated fathers and those who work with them.

The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children

Resource for professionals and caseworkers in particular for working with fathers. From: The Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect

Fatherhood Lessons

Resource for working with Latino fathers and families and for designing culturally relevant fatherhood programs. From: Bienvenidos Children's Center, Inc., The national Compadres Network, and The National Latino Fatherhood and Family Institute.



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