FRPN Webinar: Using Cellphone Technology in Fatherhood Programs and Research 10-4-2016

FRPN Webinar: Using Cellphone Technology in Fatherhood Programs and Research

Advancements in technology are changing the way we communicate with each other and can have a profound impact in recruitment and engagement of individuals in human services programs.

On Tuesday, October 4 at 12 p.m. EST, the Fatherhood Research & Practice Network (FRPN) will host a free webinar for researchers and practitioners entitled: Using Cellphone Technology in Fatherhood Programs and Research.

Four presentations will be included in this webinar. 

1. “Engaging low-income parents in school nutrition through the use of text messaging: Text2BHealthy”.  Presenter: Lindsey Zemeir, faculty extension assistant, Food Supplement Nutrition Education Program. 
2. Promoting real-time information sharing and peer support through online job clubs: The Newark Smartphone Reentry ProjectPresenter: Naomi Sugie, Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine. 
3. Using Cellphones to Engage Fathers: The Healthy Start Experience in New Haven, CT. Presenter: Kenn Harris, Director, New Haven Healthy Start and President of the National Healthy Start Association.
4. Using Cellphone Technologies to Engage and Retain Men in Responsible Fathering Services. Presenter: Anna Hayward, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare. 

Learn more about the presentations and register for the Oct. 4 FRPN webinar here:

Special Webinar 9/27 on Trauma and Toxic Stress...

Responding to the Impact of Trauma and Toxic Stress Prior to & After a Disaster among Vulnerable Populations: A Faith- and Community-Based Approach

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

1:00-2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time

Register HERE  https://icpd.adobeconnect.com/stress1/event/registration.html

COMMITTED TO CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

OF

TRAINING FOR FAMILY SERVICE FRONT-LINE & ADVANCED PRACTITIONER PROFESSIONALS

National Fatherhood Practitioner Certificate 

October 28, 2016

NATIONAL FATHERHOOD PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATE TRAINING INSTITUTE

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28TH - 8:30a.m. to 4:00p.m.

Registration Open - Starting at $100.00 Here

HOST SITE

Sharon Baptist Head Start - Fathers4Progress Initiative

Marketing or branding at conferences is a modest investment to engage with target audience at most conferences...but go deepeer with us!

However, Fathers & Families Coalition of America has created a strategy to That Will Keep You Ahead Of Trends in 2017 with a very unique approach that our conference is your conference. Our world is changing faster than ever before, and the ability to understand trends is increasingly competitive. FFCA has a unique reach for most nonprofits that allows us to establish personal relationships, and collaborate with the industry leaders as evident with over 70 professionals placing in a workshop for our 18th Annual Families & Fathers National & International Conference. Starting today, we are leveraging our goodwill to help those who want to support not only our purpose but increase effective branding of their efforts. We have so many talented people and to get your talents to others, our conferences are still the best way to do that.

Today, we start the process of new engagement strategies with professionals and parents to include our first sponsorship and advertisement campaign that is intentionally developed to maximize the potential of our colleagues. FFCA will have a significant change in our website presence that brings over 6million views per year, social media connections to tens of thousands and eNewsletter blogs to over 13000 stakeholders. We understand that placing and advertisement in our conference program and or a corporation sponsorship is truly a blessing but it is a soft return on investment. We plan on leveraging the digital capacity to for a greater return on all of the aforementioned as well as new conference app...  

If you have a talent, book and or product you want to get out to share with others, now is the day to learn more here and collaborate...

2016 Champions: LabCorp, Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving and Nurturing Fathers Program and we hope to increase 

JOIN US AS A SPONSOR AND OR ADVERTISER TODAY... BE A CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS

Fathers & Families Coalition of America has trained well over 18,000 individuals regarding the impact of fathers on children, families and communities since 2000. We have trained in the thousands to expand their skills as practitioners. Twenty-years ago, the vision to work with fathers started from a collaborative model designed in Arizona that has grown to help others increase globally. Now, we will work with others that are leaders in the field working with fathers as well as those we have worked with training life coaches. The core of our future Fatherhood Life Coach is going to be centered high standards for practitioners who will elevate as coaches. 

If you are interested in the training as a Certified Fatherhood Life Coach that will start with training in our National Fatherhood Practitioner Certificate, incorporating elements from a one-on-one as a reflective process A Nurturing Father’s Journal, under the guidance of Fathers & Families Coalition of America with experts training Life Coaches as we come side-by-side to help professionals in their journey to help others. 

Contact us @ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call us at 424-225-1323 to get prepared as a future peer in this new model of professional growth.

• 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

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TRAINING FOR FAMILY SERVICE FRONT-LINE & ADVANCED PRACTITIONER PROFESSIONALS

Healthy Families & Fathers Summer Training Institute

Fatherhood Practitioner Certificate Training - Wednesday, August 10th

SAN DIEGO LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

Without Borders - Restoration of Families

July 28th & 29^th

Conference Program Here

Special Code to Reduce Fees by $50.00 SSCC

GET EXICTED FOR OUR 18TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE!

NEVER GIVING UP - BREAKTHROUGH 2017

18TH ANNUAL FAMILIES & FATHERS CONFERENCE

FEBRUARY 27 - MARCH 3, 2017

SHERATON GATEWAY LAX HOTEL - LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

Dr. Michael Coombs provided one of the more powerful, holistic, clinically significant, science based and led by spirituality presentation at an event Fathers & Families Coalition of America (soon Fathers & Families Coalition International) has been humbled to host with the talents of leaders, presenters and volunteers globally. June 22, 2016 at the University College of the Caribbean, Dr. Coombs took the audience through a passionate presentation on why if we do not get serious of about fatherlessness, children out of marriage and lack of support for our children we are potentially in danger of a healthy community, society and world. 

Read here for the full powerpoint presentation that Dr. Coombs has allowed for public use through Father & Families Coalition of America.

Read here for the expectional professional, personal and family man journey of Michael Coombs, MD of Jamaica.

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OF

TRAINING FOR FAMILY SERVICE FRONT-LINE & ADVANCED PRACTITIONER PROFESSIONALS

Healthy Families & Fathers Summer Training Institute

August 10th - 12th

That’s My Dad! #thatsmydadmovement

Fathers & Families Coalition of America is humbled to present our 2016 Father's Day highlighted initiative with an exceptional book. Mr. Joe Pellegrino has tirelessly advocated for improving the conditions for children, not only in his home state of New Jersey but as he champions their needs in Cuba, throughout the United States and internationally to increase awareness of the already known. Millions of children have suffered because a lack of father-involvement, however, there are so many good dads and not just for their children but the friends of their children and as role models to many. Today, make this the day that enough is enough with so many young boys and girls with great resiliency having to push through life because a desire to feel loved.... Take this day to be part of one of the greatest moments ever presented to Fathers & Families Coalition of America. Give this as a gift to friends, partners, husbands, dads, grandfathers, godfathers, and every man who is willing to be the man a child deserves so they can shout that is my dad!!!!

Purchase the book below to not only challenge yourself but support a tremendous global cause....

#thatsmydadmovement

Support our initiatives as a member (here) and or affiliate (here) today. We bring opportunities of hope, inspiration and support for professionals who desire to improve outcomes for moms, children and dads through healthier relationships. FFCA champions healthy families through many initiatives (social justice, professional conferences, training institutes, networking, fund development strategies, and more...) benefit building healthier communities and challenge all of us to help parents and children. Father's Day is approaching, we look at all the faces of children laughing, playing and inspired by great dads. Yes, we can focus on the millions of children without a father do to his choice to be absent and or unpreventable circumstances. All of us have been affected by our parents! There is not one individual in the world not affected by his or her mom and dad starting before pregnancy from the support and involvement of the parents to and for each other, during pregnancy, post-partum and in the critical first two-years of life. We identify only 16 important contributions a father provides for children all over the world. There are many more and based on the realities of millions of children thriving they are receiving an overflow of these qualities a dad brings. 

Millions of children need the uniqueness that only a father can give to his daughter and or son. We celebrate Dads Around the World but this is an opportunity to get involved helping children without a dad and in growing numbers without a mom present in everyday life. Consider supporting Fathers & Families Coalition of America today as important partner to improve outcomes for children, help moms and dads who are in need of the best support they can get, especially young moms and dads who are in-risk throughout the world that your support fosters opportunities to receive the best resources as together, we can make a difference!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL THE DADS AROUND THE WORLD!

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.   

"A leader who produces other leaders multiplies their influences."

-John C. Maxwell

CALL FOR PRESENTERS

California-based and international influential capacity building assistance/quality improvement training organization prepares to co-host a leadership conference with San Diego-based inteternational leader as well as national strengthening families and fatherhood experts

“Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.” -Myles Munroe

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(San Diego, CA) Effective leadership in restoring families, building healthy communities, and building future leaders. They are just a few of the topics that will be discussed at this year's Without Borders - Restoration of Families Conference.  The event, presented by Fathers & Families Coalition of America and St. Stephen's Cathedral Church of God in Christ, as well as with several high profile religious leaders scheduled to speak. Bishop George D. McKinney, Senior Pastor at St. Stephens Cathedral Church of God in Christ in San Diego, a California Affiliate of Fathers & Families Coalition of America is the Chair of this inaugural conference with Bishop Henry Hearns, Senior Pastor at Livingstone Cathedral Worship Church (another affiliate agency of Fathers & Families Coalition of America), Lancaster, California.

Love Notes Shown Effective In Preventing Teen Pregnancy

The Dibble Institute is thrilled to announce that its relationship skills program, Love Notes, has been added to list of teen pregnancy prevention Evidence Based Programs (EBP) maintained by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. Love Notes was included based on statistically significant decreases in sexual activity, increases in contraceptive use, and avoidance of pregnancy.

"We are pleased that we now have proof that relationship skills education is an effective strategy to prevent teen pregnancy, " Kay Reed, Executive Director of The Dibble Institute noted. "It's great to have a new approach that works, especially with high-risk youth between the ages of 14 and 19."

Love Notes, a comprehensive healthy relationship education curriculum written by Marline E. Pearson, teaches young people how to build healthy romantic relationships as well as how to preventing dating violence and avoid unprotected sex. Love Notes was evaluated inCHAMPS (Creating Healthy Adolescents through Meaningful Prevention Services), a 5-year $4.8 million study through the Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville. Anita Barbee, Ph.D. was the Principal Investigator.

The study consisted of a cluster-randomized trial involving over 1,400 youth. Stringent data analyses examined data from 933 at-risk, low-income youth including urban, foster, refugee, and immigrant participants who were recruited from 23 community-based organizations.