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Case
Management
Documentation for service referrals, resources, job assistance, home
assistance legal and other issues related to fatherhood.
Assessment tools include the following:
- AAPI, Individual
Family Assessments
- Family
Condition Matrix
- Contact Notes
- Family
Success Plan
Positive
Parenting
Educating parents and empowering them with tools for positive and healthy
parenting, with an emphasis to become more active, and involved in the lives
of their children. Classes satisfy court
mandates and are approved by the Department of Human Services. The program
curriculum covers many issues facing parents today.
Topics include:
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Ways to be a Better Dad
Anger Management
Discipline vs. Punishment
Child Neglect/Sexual Abuse
Life Strategies
Goal Setting
V.I.P.
– Visitation Intervention Program
Provides supervised visits for males referred to the program by court for
visitation with their children.
Teen Dads
Provide groups for incarcerated and non-incarcerated teen fathers.
Currently, the Fatherhood Program provides services at Crossroads and
Camp Owens Juvenile facilities.
Bonding Socializations
Providing fathers the opportunity to bond with their children through
various educational field trips and positive fun-filled learning environments.
Fatherhood
Focus Group
Serves as a continuous method for program improvement, satisfaction, and
assessment through the perspective of actual fathers receiving services through
the Fatherhood Program. The focus
group provides a sounding board for fathers to give constructive feedback, and
discuss issues that concern fathers today, and assist the program in effectively
reaching out and providing successful services to the community, to fathers and
significant male role-models.
Substance
Abuse Program
Provides out-patient services
for Fatherhood participants, including individual and group counseling sessions
for fathers who need or seek substance abuse counseling and intervention
services.
Annual Fatherhood Conference
The Fatherhood Program has held 3 annual conferences.
Last year’s conference was successful, totaling over 250 participants.
This year’s 4th annual conference will also include dynamic
presenters and workshops that provide participants with the tools to become
empowered, responsible and involved fathers and men in the lives of their
children. The conference helps to
promote positive and healthy relationships for families in the community.
FACT – Fatherhood Advisory
Collaborative Team
The Fatherhood Advisory Collaborative Team consists of a variety of
members of community partnerships, local agencies who assist the Fatherhood
program in planning, accomplishing goals and objectives, and the overall
implementation of program needs. The
F.A.C.T. serves as a resource and network collaboration to build community
linkages for
services.
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