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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

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.

FRPN Webinar

Achieving High Response Rates and Dealing with Missing Data in Fatherhood Evaluations

 

On Tuesday, June 13 at 12:00 p.m. EST, the Fatherhood Research & Practice Network (FRPN) will host our eighth learning community webinar. High rates of attrition reduce the credibility of research findings. Achieving High Response Rates and Dealing with Missing Data in Fatherhood Evaluations will focus on the fundamentals of maximizing response rates and practical approaches for handling missing data in fatherhood evaluation studies. It will feature staff from Mathematica Policy Research who conducted the Parents and Children Together (PACT) evaluation, a large-scale, multi-site project involving Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage programs that included a 12-month follow-up survey, where the research team achieved a high response rate.

Webinar presenters will describe the various contact information and consents programs and researchers should collect at enrollment; effective ways of keeping in touch with respondents over time; statistical approaches to handling missing data; and how to interpret evaluation results considering different levels of missing data.

Fathers & Families Coalition of America is honored to collaborate with the Fatherhood Research & Practice Network to advance effective and emerging models that improve outcomes for children, communities and parents. The FRPN has issued their third request for proposals (RFP). This RFP is intended to support exploratory and descriptive research that will provide insights into previously unstudied or understudied areas.  They expect to make three to six awards of approximately $20,000 to $50,000.  Proposed studies should consider innovative programs or interventions related to coparenting, employment and economic security, and/or father engagement and effective parenting for low-income fathers. Such studies might include, but would not be limited to:How fatherhood programming can operate effectively and efficiently in rural settings;The use of cognitive behavioral therapy approaches in fatherhood programming;How to engage mothers for coparenting interventions;Interventions to strengthen parenting time with never-married populations;The use of smartphones or other technology for data collection;Text messages to promote positive father engagement/behaviors;Fatherhood programming for specific populations, including Latinos, Native Americans, teen fathers, immigrant fathers and others; or Integrating fatherhood programming into batterer treatment or integrating violence education and prevention into fatherhood programming.

Learn more about this outstanding opportunity here and or contact the staff at the  here