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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.

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TRAUMA IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY

A Unique Perspective 

Honorable  Arthur L. Burnett Sr., The First African-American U.S. Magistrate Judge

Trauma in the African American community with Black youth living in poverty being subject to or witness to domestic violence, gun shootings and stabbings, young girls subject to incest and young boys forced into gangs when they are good in math.   Review the full written testimony statement submitted to the Washington D.C. City Council on the need to deal with grossly dysfunctional homes many of these children are forced to live in.   Judge Burnett describes why improving education in the schools to 8 hours a day or year round school with a mini break between sessions on one or two weeks for vacation planning cannot be the sole answer.   

Judge Burnett challenges leader’s in Washington, D.C. and across America to come up with a social work program which focuses primarily on the home from the time the mother takes the child home from the hospital and the process of parenting and instilling values in that child between 0-3 as to self-worth, work ethic, striving to achieve and respect for the value of life and all that involves rather than just exist and develop values from the street, and start learning and thirsting for knowledge even at 2-3 years of age.  

Fathers & Families Coalition of America is committed as one of our priorities to address the elimination of poverty in America and globally. We facilitated a release of two 2015 winter briefs on the Elimination of Poverty. In 2016, we will go to Jamaica to support the overwhelming homes in poverty. Throughout the United States, the growing cascade of the disproportionality of poverty rates has continued. During our National Families & Fathers 17th Annual Conference, February 18, 2016 Fathers & Families Coalition of America brought international experts to address Building Healthy Families and Communities.

 

 

We are honored to share the following speakers for you to listen and take a ways from  Dr. Maria Cancian, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Policy Administration for Children and Families Washington, DC; Ms. Vicki Turetsky, Commissioner for the U.S. Office of Child Support Washington, DC;. Dr. Ronald B. Mincy, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice Columbia University, New York City, NY and Ms. Joyce A. Thomas, Regional Administrator, Administration for Children and Families, Region II New York City, NY