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Fathers and Families Coalition of America's international response to support professional development, organizational capacity building assistance, advocacy and network/affiliate development will bring us to Beijing, China for our sixth international venue.  中国父亲与家庭联盟大会正在筹办 敬请期待 with our China Affiliate from the Schools of Education and Psychology under the leadership of Professor Chi Zhang and Professor Flora Dong at Peking University and founders of ExPsy. These are exceptional researchers and leaders striving to facilitate a national and new coalition. Fathers and Families Coalition of China adopting FFCA's core purposes and through ExPsy adapting to meet the needs of China's diverse families will introduce they're first ever national conference. FFCA leadership is supporting their proposed event at Peking University, June 16th and 17th.

May 2018

Save-the-date for the next FRPN learning community webinar - State Approaches to Including Fathers in Programs and Policies - on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, at 12:00 p.m. EST. Six presenters from three states  featured as follows: 

Ohio

South Carolina

 Kansas

(James C. Rodriguez, Chief Executive Officer and President honoring the 2018 President's Servant Leadership The Hon. Phillipa Johnson)

There is a master plan in our lives. While we may avoid the journey for the purpose or destiny of our lives,  We all know many in their walk of life are sources of the brightest role models. In 2018, the theme for the year given to Fathers and Families Coalition of America is Greater Purpose that we use our national conference with so many talented individuals as well as closing tribute to honor others. In the past, we honored so many others such as  Gladys Knight, Mr. Cedric "the Entertainer," Honorable Janet Napolitano, and others who tirelessly served their communities not limited to but just a few:

Hon. John S. Martinez, Charlene Lewis Meeks,  Raymond Capper, Stanely Siederman and of course so many honorees to include those who gave pieces of their lives and bodies for our nation as Wounded Warriors. Couples of Excellence we have honored to include marriages that lasted 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 plus years and this one special couple of over 70 years. Wow, you cannot understand the "feeling of love" with this two elders basking in the glory of their love as a story for their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren as they took the microphone in a youthful manner and as happy as they could be declaring love for over 70 years as he serenaded to his bride in Spanish and even  those who could not understand the words they knew the language of true love. 

We have been blessed with many entertainers, and one that used his saxophone in the language of love was the international artist Marion Meadows. He wrote this particular song for Ms. Charlene Lewis-meeks who was fighting breast cancer and ultimately went to rest for eternity. But the commitment to Fathers and Families Coalition of America by so many people like Marion is humbling. What many did not know that night he flew from a considerable distance from Oman to Los Angeles that was over 8,600 miles to play his gift for her and others with a particular song for Dr. Herschel Swinger.

The words that come to mind when thinking of those from the past is the commitment as servant leaders, passion in their purpose, empathy for others, continuous learning to give away in teaching/modeling for others and a joyful presence that embraced life, even in the midst of challenges.  

Now Announcing

Sensational Spring Savings

Instantly Save 20% Limited Discount Offer

Why you should attend: Because our members tell us the new added training modules help increase skills working with individuals that promote, create and discover fantastic improvement working with mothers, youth, fathers, and families we want to give a free member discount now. Compare each symposium training to other symposiums focused on professional development working with families and discover the tremendous benefits for improvements of best practices for practitioners concerning children, youth and their families as appropriate approaches and interventions in serving the community incorporating fatherhood services.

Current events in just America highlight much-troubled youth because of fatherlessness and a December 2017 Washington Times Opinion gives an example of what is well known the social, community, families costs. Is this advanced practitioner training investment to increase skills for helping children and their parents? This is the simple answer, yes and we want to make our symposiums accessible for all to attend. This is a limited discount of 20% on all regional events. Why we have chosen to collaborate with local leaders on these events is ultimate to help others who cannot travel to national conferences. 

POLICY AND PRACTICE WITH RESEARCH MANIFESTS SOCIAL JUSTICE AND TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE

Dates: June 11th & 12th 2018

Location:The Columbia University School of Social Work1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027

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REGION-2 SYMPOSIUM RATES:

"MOVING AMERICA'S FAMILIES FORWARD: SETTING PRIORITIES FOR REDUCING POVERTY, VIOLENCE, STRENGTHENING FAMILIES AND EXPANDING OPPORTUNITY - BY ADVANCING PROFESSIONAL CAPACITY"

Millions of boys and girls grow into adulthood feeling a sense of loss with their fathers’ absence and a feeling of “no one loves me.” However, we can shift this epidemic that impacts children, parents, families, and communities by investing into those who work with youth and parents daily. Herbert Gayle, Ph.D., study on the wellness of children reports a known truth that “What seems to be severely lacking in the lives of the children is their fathers’ presence and stabilizing function,” however, together we can make a difference. Fathers & Families Coalition of America’s Advanced Practitioner Credential provides some of the needed skills and techniques to reduce fatherlessness and the associated poor outcomes for children and take the reins of championing #family-life & #fatherhood. Fathers & Families Coalition of America is advancing the needs of future innovators & leaders to be moved into their purpose.

Obtaining an advanced training is the next progression for an advanced professional career that denotes professional commitment and achievement and represents a feature of certifying knowledge and experience that meets or exceeds excellence as professionals. This advanced practitioner program, developed by Fathers & Families Coalition of America, is a dynamic integrated 16-hour training program built on the core competencies from professional fields such as: Child welfare, early childhood, marriage and family therapists, social work, criminal justice, psychologists, educators, counselors, family service workers and fatherhood practitioners. 

WEST REGION-9 SYMPOSIUM - JUNE 28TH & 29TH

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

FFCA WEST REGION-9 SYMPOSIUM - FEATURED ADVANCED PRACTITIONER CREDENTIAL

Featuring Training by Fathers & Families Coalition of America’s

Advanced Practitioner Credential

 ADVANCED PRACTITIONER CREDENTIAL TRAINING TOPICS

Special Added Training Seeking Safety Trauma Informed Care Model

Building upon the strengths of practitioners to help provide best practices for children, parents, and families.

Working with fathers is complex work, and resources for clients can be limited. When members unite by joining FFCA, we all benefit with a larger voice and more influence with those providing professional resources, policymakers, and local leaders to make mindful decisions to ultimately improve outcomes for children!What is your vision?What is your purpose?What are your goals?If you want to strive for excellence personally and professionally there is a place to increase your skills, practice interventions and or get added professional development, then join us for the Advanced Fatherhood Practitioner Credential that is intended to support from frontline workers just starting off their careers to psychologists. The experiences of #FFCA there is a measure of increase learning for all attendees. Attendees have been volunteers, direct-service staff, managers, executives, and all levels working with families.

FFCA with our Region 7 Affiliates and their state and regional partnerships  symposium

April 25th & 26th in Kansas City, MO

Registration Available Here 

Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN) Webinar:

Inside the Black Box, Part 2: Fathers' Attendance in Fatherhood Programs

Feb 2018:  The FRPN will host our 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.  This webinar 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 ProjectJay Fagan, FRPN, Temple UniversityBrenda Oyer, The RIDGE Project, Inc.

Special Credentials & Certifications Offered

@19th Annual Families and Fathers Conference

19th Annual Families and Fathers National 2018 Conference

Greater PurposeFebruary 19-23, 2018Los Angeles Sheraton Gateway LAX Hotel6101 West Century BoulevardLos Angeles, California 90045 

ANNOUNCING LIMITED SPECIAL DISCOUNTS FOR NATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS

CREDENTIALING AND CERTIFICATE TRAINING PROGRAMS

19th Annual Families and Fathers National 2018 ConferenceFebruary 19-23, 2018,Los Angeles Sheraton Gateway LAX Hotel6101 West Century BoulevardLos Angeles, California 90045 

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19th Annual Families and Fathers National 2018 ConferenceFebruary 19-23, 2018,Los Angeles Sheraton Gateway LAX Hotel6101 West Century BoulevardLos Angeles, California 90045  

REGISTRATION IS SO QUICK AND EASY WITH OUR NEW SYSTEM... IT WILL TAKE LESS THAN 90-SECONDS FOR A REGISTRATION. 

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19th Annual Families and Fathers National Conference  Social Worker Specialty Discount: 

Social Workers and NASW promote speciality programs and credentialing for those who want recognition for their professional achievements and who want to unlock new career paths. Fathers & Families Coalition of America has several programs that have foundational frameworks of social work as part of our ongoing training. From our collective experiences (advanced practitioners, research, social policy, network and community development and quality improvement centered training) FFCA has established itself as a national and international resource for the professionals. FFCA draws from a range of experts, organizations, service providers, foundations, academia, community-based initiatives, and researchers that use strength-based and empowerment-based skill building for positive and productive balanced living to increase protective factors with the parent e.g., Seeking Safety Training hosted by FFCA, our Fatherhood Practitioner Credential and others. Fathers & Families Coalition of America has over 20-years integrating social work into our services and we are offering a special 10% discount for NASW Members and BSW, MSW and or DSW/PHD Social Work Professionals to advance professional services with a speciality engaging fathers....

We look forward to hosting you at the conference. 

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Why Create Fatherhood Programs for Young Parents in America?

When you look at how the structure of the American family has evolved over the last few decades, we see a picture of relentless shape shifting in intimate relationships. The notion of “family” and “home life” continues to transform especially when childhood traumas and challenges impact its development. There are a wide range of types of family set ups that are vastly different to the “old-fashioned” family of two parents living together with their children. This “ideal” seems totally out of reach for many parents in 2017.

Unmarried Parents

In the US our married, divorced and remarrying statistics are the highest compared to any other developed country. There are also many more unmarried mothers with a massive 41% of children now coming into this world out of wedlock. When we look at the ever-widening gap in income and opportunity we see that 57% with high school diplomas or less are unmarried when they give birth for the first time.

Challenges for Young Fathers

GREATER PURPOSE

19th Annual Families and Fathers National 2018 Conference

February 19-23, 2018, at the Los Angeles Sheraton Gateway LAX Hotel

6101 West Century Boulevard

Los Angeles, California 90045

The Importance of Fatherhood Life Coaching

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan

What exactly is a Life Coach? It sounds life a mixture of psychology, philosophy and sports! It is important to know that it is not consulting, therapy, mentoring or counselling. Rather it focuses on providing the framework that supports clients, with a personal project, to allow for introspection. The Life Coach is there to help the individual to uncover the roadblocks, challenges and opportunities in the present that reveal a possible course of action for the future.

Future Fit

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fathers and Families Coalition of America (FFCA) is a national agency committed to delivering effective services, education, training and advocacy to make a difference in the fatherhood field. The organization’s national fatherhood conference is one of the most popular in the field each year. James Rodriguez, President and Chief Executive Officer of FFCA, serves as a member of the FRPN steering committee and communications workgroup.FFCA is committed to support those working to provide effective platforms to enhance services to children and families through engagement of fathers and  FFCA invites you to attend and share the following:  FRPN Webinar: Two Generation Strategies to Engage and Serve Low-Income Fathers

On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. EST,

The Fatherhood Research & Practice Network (FRPN) will host its ninth learning community webinar.  

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This webinar will present new approaches to engaging low-income fathers to improve their parenting skills and/or relationships with their children. Three programs working to get fathers and their children involved in interactive activities that are also embedded with parenting information and feedback will be highlighted. Preliminary research findings for all three approaches are promising. Each program is being scaled up and adapted to new settings and populations. The featured programs and researchers include:

We live in a hectic world where many of us barely find the time to spend alone let alone with our loved ones. We have a simple saying; life is too short to be working all the time, before you know it you’ll have very limited time with your loved ones and you’ll regret not spending time with them.  We have some great news for you though the 2018 Famillies and Fathers national conference is just around the corner and they’re offering a big discount to all those that book their tickets  will get a Limited Pre-Early Fee of only $219.00.

Join 600 diverse professionals who work with #children, mothers & father’s daily, at the #Fathers&Families 2018 conference bit.ly/2gFJDuk

If you’re a professional or a family member just looking for more advice then this is the perfect conference for you it’s held on the West Coast of North Ammerica and will help you improve strategies, curriculums, skills and more for effective services for children and families and of course teach you ways to free up more time to spend with your loved ones.  To find out more please don’t hesitate to visit 19th Annual Families & Fathers National Conference or http://fathersandfamiliescoalition.org for more information.

Come together for #GreaterPurpose to improve strategies, curriculums, skills for effective services for families. bit.ly/2gFJDuk

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19th Annual Families and Fathers National 2018 ConferenceFebruary 19-23, 2018Los Angeles Sheraton Gateway LAX Hotel6101 West Century BoulevardLos Angeles, California 90045

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