Prepare Your Organization for the AI Era of Human Services
Innovation, Technology & AI Fathers and Families Coalition Institute
AI for Stronger Families: Igniting Family Engagement, Leadership, and Innovation Through Technology
Fathers and Families Coalition of America invites affiliates, members, stakeholders, and family-serving professionals to join a purpose-driven hybrid institute focused on how technology and artificial intelligence can strengthen fatherhood, family engagement, organizational capacity, ethics, and human connection.
Do not wait for AI to change your work. Learn how to use it with wisdom, ethics, cultural awareness, and purpose to strengthen families and preserve the human connection at the center of human services.
Date
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Time
12:30 PM – 4:00 PM Pacific Time
Location
San Jose, California
Format
Hybrid Event: In-Person + WebEx
Reserve Your Space Early
Space is limited for this hybrid institute. Register early to secure the modest early rate and ensure your place in this purpose-driven training focused on innovation, technology, AI, fatherhood, family engagement, ethics, and human-centered leadership.
Early Registration Rate
$30.00
Available May 26 – July 26, 2026
Standard / At-the-Door Rate
$50.00
Begins July 27, 2026 and continues through the event date
Early registration is available May 26 through July 26, 2026. Space is limited, and rates increase beginning July 27, 2026.
Early Registration is $30.00 through July 26, 2026. Registration increases to $50.00 beginning July 27, 2026. Space is limited for this hybrid institute.
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Use the buttons below to quickly review the value, faculty, agenda, ethics, and registration details.
Why Now Featured Trainer Agenda Ethics Outcomes RegisterImmediate Value. Clear Benefit. Easy Action.
Do Not Wait for AI to Change Your Work. Learn How to Use It With Purpose.
Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how organizations communicate, train, fundraise, engage families, manage workflow, evaluate impact, and build capacity. The question is no longer whether AI will affect family-serving systems. The question is whether the people closest to fathers, mothers, children, and communities will be equipped to use it with wisdom, ethics, and human connection.
This institute is designed to help participants take action immediately. You will learn practical ways technology and AI can support fatherhood engagement, family outreach, organizational communication, staff capacity, content development, grant readiness, digital storytelling, and mission-centered leadership.
Immediate Value
Learn tools and strategies you can begin using the same week to organize ideas, strengthen communication, reduce administrative pressure, and support family engagement.
Clear Benefit
Understand how AI and technology can strengthen fatherhood programs, nonprofit operations, digital outreach, training design, grant planning, and human-centered service.
Easy Action
Register early, secure the $30.00 rate, and join a focused hybrid institute designed for professionals who want practical tools without being overwhelmed.
Human Services Cannot Afford to Be Left Behind
AI Is Already Changing the Field. This Institute Helps You Lead With Ethics and Purpose.
Larger systems are moving quickly. Smaller nonprofits, fatherhood programs, Head Start and Early Head Start partners, community-based organizations, faith-based agencies, and grassroots leaders must not be left behind. This institute is designed for real-world professionals who need practical tools, ethical guidance, and clear examples of how AI can support daily work without replacing human judgment, culture, lived experience, or relationships.
Featured Speaker & Core Institute Trainer
Chandra Lopez-Brooks
Owner, Powerhaus Strategies | @thepowerhouselegacybuilder
Chandra Lopez-Brooks is an award-winning leader, speaker, and consultant who helps nonprofits, educators, and family-serving organizations harness technology for impact. With a background in social justice, advocacy, business development, and innovation, she has trained hundreds of professionals to use artificial intelligence to reduce burnout, streamline operations, strengthen communication, and deepen engagement with fathers and families.
Chandra holds a Certificate in Artificial Intelligence: Business Strategy & Applications from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and is the founder of Powerhouse Academy. Her mission is to ensure that family-serving systems have equitable access to next-generation tools so practitioners can focus on what matters most: strong relationships, meaningful engagement, and thriving communities.
Featured Core Training: AI for Stronger Families
From 1:30 PM to 3:45 PM Pacific Time, Chandra will lead the featured institute training on practical AI tools, ethical use, family engagement, organizational capacity, communication, reducing burnout, grant readiness, healthy technology practices, and using technology while keeping human connection at the center.
Additional Training Leadership
Fatherhood, Technology, and FFCA’s Innovation Vision
Bryan Evans
The Father Center of New Jersey
Bryan Evans will lead Fatherhood in the Digital Age, a focused session on how technology can strengthen fatherhood engagement, digital outreach, workforce development, mobile learning, dashboards, online support, and practical program innovation.
Dr. James C. Rodríguez, MSW, CADC
President and Chief Executive Officer, FFCA
Dr. Rodríguez will open the institute by connecting technology, innovation, AI, fatherhood, family engagement, and FFCA’s purpose-driven professional development pathway, including the broader HOPE 2027 vision for human-centered innovation.
Register Because You Will Leave With More Than Ideas
Practical Tools. Ethical Guidance. Real Applications.
This institute is designed for professionals who want to understand AI without losing the heart of the work. Participants will explore practical ways to use technology to strengthen fatherhood, family engagement, leadership, communication, outreach, grant readiness, digital storytelling, and organizational capacity.
Fatherhood Engagement
Explore how digital tools can support outreach, mobile learning, online support, program dashboards, workforce development, and stronger connection with fathers.
AI-Supported Workflow
Learn how AI can support writing, planning, training outlines, communication, meeting summaries, content development, program descriptions, and daily organizational demands.
Ethics & Human Connection
Discuss privacy, bias, children, parenting, misinformation, digital access, cultural humility, and how to ensure technology supports people rather than replacing care.
Institute Agenda
Tuesday, August 4, 2026 | 12:30 PM – 4:00 PM Pacific Time
A focused afternoon designed to help participants understand, apply, and responsibly use technology and AI in family-serving work.
12:30 PM
12:45 PM
Welcome, Purpose, and FFCA Innovation Vision
Dr. James C. Rodríguez, MSW, CADC will open the institute by connecting technology, innovation, AI, fatherhood, family engagement, and FFCA’s purpose-driven professional development pathway.
12:45 PM
1:30 PM
Fatherhood in the Digital Age
Presented by Bryan Evans, The Father Center of New Jersey
A focused session on how technology can strengthen fatherhood engagement, digital outreach, workforce development, mobile learning, dashboards, and family-serving program innovation.
1:30 PM
3:45 PM
AI for Stronger Families
Featured Speaker: Chandra Lopez-Brooks, Owner, Powerhaus Strategies
The featured core training on practical AI tools, ethical use, organizational workflow, family engagement, communication, reducing burnout, healthy technology practices, and how AI can strengthen human-centered leadership.
3:45 PM
4:00 PM
Closing Reflection and Next Steps
FFCA will close with key reflections, application steps, affiliate and member benefits, and the emerging pathway toward future AI-led family engagement professional development.
Ethics, Equity, and Community Responsibility
AI Must Support Human Connection, Not Replace It.
This institute will include an important conversation on the pros and cons of AI for organizations, communities, parenting, children, family-serving systems, and human service professionals.
Privacy and Trust
How organizations can protect sensitive information, respect families, and avoid careless use of AI-generated content.
Bias and Cultural Responsiveness
How to review AI outputs with professional judgment, cultural humility, and awareness of bias, misinformation, and digital inequities.
Children, Parenting, and Community
How families, parents, and practitioners can create healthy technology practices that strengthen, not weaken, relationships.
Who Should Attend
Designed for Real-World Family-Serving Professionals
This institute is designed for FFCA affiliates, members, and selected stakeholders serving families and communities.
Fatherhood practitioners
Family engagement professionals
Head Start and Early Head Start leaders
Parent educators
Nonprofit executives and program directors
Case managers and family advocates
Community health workers
Behavioral health and wellness professionals
Workforce development professionals
Educators and trainers
Social workers and human service professionals
Faith-based and community-based leaders
Researchers, evaluators, and innovation partners
Anyone interested in using technology and AI to strengthen families, organizations, and communities
Why Register Now
This Is a Modest Investment With Immediate Professional Value.
For $30.00 during the early registration period, participants receive access to a timely institute focused on one of the most important shifts affecting nonprofits, fatherhood programs, family engagement systems, education, leadership, and community-based services.
After July 26, the rate increases to $50.00. Registering early is the easiest way to secure your space, save on registration, and stay connected to FFCA’s growing Innovation, Technology & AI professional development pathway.
Future Professional Development Pathway
AI-Led Family Engagement Practitioner Certificate
This institute is not the end of the conversation. It is part of FFCA’s emerging pathway to equip family-serving professionals with credible, practical, ethical, and human-centered skills in using technology and artificial intelligence to strengthen family and father engagement.
A future certificate pathway would move beyond experimentation and provide structure, standards, practice, and ethical guidance for professionals who want to use AI with confidence, care, and purpose.
Limited Opportunity | Early Rate Available Through July 26
Secure Your Space Before the Rate Increases.
Register today for the $30.00 early rate. Beginning July 27, 2026, registration increases to $50.00.
Early Registration
$30
May 26 – July 26, 2026
Standard Registration
$50
July 27 – Event Day
Space is limited for this hybrid institute. Early registration is available only through July 26, 2026.
The Future of Family Engagement Must Be Innovative and Deeply Human.
FFCA is choosing to lead with wisdom, purpose, ethics, and love. Join us for this special institute and be part of a growing movement to ensure technology strengthens people, families, organizations, and communities.
Innovation with ethics. Technology with purpose. AI with humanity.
Early Registration is $30.00 through July 26, 2026. Registration increases to $50.00 beginning July 27, 2026. Space is limited for this hybrid institute.
Immediate Value. Clear Benefit. Easy Action.
Do Not Wait for AI to Change Your Work. Learn How to Use It With Purpose.
Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how organizations communicate, train, fundraise, engage families, manage workflow, and build capacity. The question is no longer whether AI will affect family-serving systems. The question is whether the people closest to fathers, mothers, children, and communities will be equipped to use it with wisdom, ethics, and human connection.
This institute is designed to help participants take action immediately. You will learn practical ways technology and AI can support fatherhood engagement, family outreach, organizational communication, staff capacity, and mission-centered leadership.
Immediate Value
Learn tools and strategies you can begin using the same week to organize ideas, strengthen communication, reduce administrative pressure, and support family engagement.
Clear Benefit
Understand how AI and technology can strengthen fatherhood programs, nonprofit operations, digital outreach, training design, and human-centered service.
Easy Action
Register early, secure the $30.00 rate, and join a focused hybrid institute designed for professionals who want practical tools without being overwhelmed.
Featured Speaker & Core Institute Trainer
Chandra Lopez-Brooks
Owner, Powerhaus Strategies | @thepowerhouselegacybuilder
Chandra Lopez-Brooks is an award-winning leader, speaker, and consultant who helps nonprofits, educators, and family-serving organizations harness technology for impact. With a background in social justice, advocacy, business development, and innovation, she has trained hundreds of professionals to use artificial intelligence to reduce burnout, streamline operations, strengthen communication, and deepen engagement with fathers and families.
Chandra holds a Certificate in Artificial Intelligence: Business Strategy & Applications from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and is the founder of Powerhouse Academy. Her mission is to ensure that family-serving systems have equitable access to next-generation tools so practitioners can focus on what matters most: strong relationships, meaningful engagement, and thriving communities.
Featured Core Training: AI for Stronger Families
From 1:30 PM to 3:45 PM Pacific Time, Chandra will lead the featured institute training on practical AI tools, ethical use, family engagement, organizational capacity, communication, reducing burnout, and using technology while keeping human connection at the center.
Register Because You Will Leave With More Than Ideas
Practical Tools. Ethical Guidance. Real Applications.
This institute is designed for professionals who want to understand AI without losing the heart of the work. Participants will explore practical ways to use technology to strengthen fatherhood, family engagement, leadership, communication, and organizational capacity.
Fatherhood Engagement
Explore how digital tools can support outreach, mobile learning, online support, program dashboards, workforce development, and stronger connection with fathers.
AI-Supported Workflow
Learn how AI can support writing, planning, training outlines, communication, meeting summaries, content development, and daily organizational demands.
Ethics & Human Connection
Discuss privacy, bias, children, parenting, misinformation, digital access, cultural humility, and how to ensure technology supports people rather than replacing care.
Institute Agenda
Tuesday, August 4, 2026 | 12:30 PM – 4:00 PM Pacific Time
A focused afternoon designed to help participants understand, apply, and responsibly use technology and AI in family-serving work.
12:30 PM
12:45 PM
Welcome, Purpose, and FFCA Innovation Vision
Dr. James C. Rodríguez, MSW, CADC will open the institute by connecting technology, innovation, AI, fatherhood, family engagement, and FFCA’s purpose-driven professional development pathway.
12:45 PM
1:30 PM
Fatherhood in the Digital Age
Presented by Bryan Evans, The Father Center of New Jersey
A focused session on how technology can strengthen fatherhood engagement, digital outreach, workforce development, mobile learning, dashboards, and family-serving program innovation.
1:30 PM
3:45 PM
AI for Stronger Families
Featured Speaker: Chandra Lopez-Brooks, Owner, Powerhaus Strategies
The featured core training on practical AI tools, ethical use, organizational workflow, family engagement, communication, reducing burnout, healthy technology practices, and how AI can strengthen human-centered leadership.
3:45 PM
4:00 PM
Closing Reflection and Next Steps
FFCA will close with key reflections, application steps, affiliate and member benefits, and the emerging pathway toward future AI-led family engagement professional development.
Why Register Now
This Is a Modest Investment With Immediate Professional Value.
For $30.00 during the early registration period, participants receive access to a timely institute focused on one of the most important shifts affecting nonprofits, fatherhood programs, family engagement systems, education, leadership, and community-based services.
After July 26, the rate increases to $50.00. Registering early is the easiest way to secure your space, save on registration, and stay connected to FFCA’s growing Innovation, Technology & AI professional development pathway.
Limited Opportunity | Early Rate Available Through July 26
Secure Your Space Before the Rate Increases.
Register today for the $30.00 early rate. Beginning July 27, 2026, registration increases to $50.00.
Early Registration
$30
May 26 – July 26, 2026
Standard Registration
$50
July 27 – Event Day
Space is limited for this hybrid institute. Early registration is available only through July 26, 2026.
The Future of Family Engagement Must Be Innovative and Deeply Human.
FFCA is choosing to lead with wisdom, purpose, ethics, and love. Join us for this special institute and be part of a growing movement to ensure technology strengthens people, families, organizations, and communities.