This tip card offers dads guidance on how to support and encourage the growth and development of their school age children.
Brief, NRFC Quick Statistics and Research Reviews, Brief
Roughly one in five people and more than one in 10 men between the ages of 18 and 44 in the United States live in rural communities. Although rural and urban fathers are similar in many ways, there are significant differences shaping their lives and opportunities that have implications for fatherhood programs. For instance, program staff working in rural communities often report that higher rates of unemployment, lower educational attainment, limited job opportunities, and lack of transportation translate to challenges that are difficult to address and unique to rural communities. This…
Reading to your children from an early age will help them become interested in reading – and children who enjoy reading tend to do better in school and have more employment opportunities as adults! Children often become interested in reading by watching and mimicking their parents or participating in child-parent reading routines. Reading and telling stories to your children is not just good for them, it’s fun for dads too. It provides a positive way to stay involved in your children’s lives and creates memories to share with them as they get older. (Author abstract)This tip sheet is…
Brief
Reading is an essential activity that is linked to children’s cognitive development, academic skills, and future employment opportunities. Children often become interested in reading by watching and mimicking their parents or participating in child-parent reading routines. Although mothers have a big role to play, research shows that fathers are particularly influential for children’s language and literacy development, which means they are a promising point of intervention for efforts to improve children’s language and literacy. Reading together and engaging in other literacy activities, such…
Webinar
Children who read well by third grade are more likely than their peers to experience academic success and economic stability as adults. They are also more likely to have parents who read to them. This webinar looked at ways in which fatherhood programs can help fathers improve their own literacy, encourage them to read to their children, and enhance outcomes for two generations (parents and their children).
The Office of Family Assistance, through the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC), provided this technical assistance webinar for all responsible fatherhood…
Webinar
Bullying is a problem faced by many children at school, in the community, and online. Children may bully others, they may be victims of bullying behavior, or they may find themselves in a bystander role. This NRFC webinar focuses on ways in which fatherhood programs can address these and related issues with fathers and their local communities.
Goals of Webinar:
After this training webinar, participants will improve their knowledge and understanding of:
The different roles that children may play in bullying behavior.
Ways in which fathers can talk with their children about… A curriculum that is relevant, timely, and realistic is essential for helping you structure your work with fathers in correctional settings. However, because of the variety of curricula available to fatherhood program practitioners, choosing an appropriate curriculum for the fathers you serve can seem overwhelming. For professionals working with dads in prisons, jails, halfway houses, and other correctional settings, investing time to identify and use an effective curriculum will produce tremendous long-term benefits both for participants and the program. This brief provides the steps to…
Webinar
This Webinar discussed issues including: Sharing effective recruitment strategies and general lessons learned from work with couples and/or with fathers; exploring strategies to help fathers gain new insights; increase their understanding of themselves and their partners; and recognize and address key relationship issues; and, sharing ways to teach couples and individual fathers Healthy Marriage skills. (Author abstract)
NRFC Quick Statistics and Research Reviews, Brief
This fact sheet includes information and research findings on the child development of adolescents who are ages 11 through 14 years and do not reside with their fathers. Research results are shared on father-child contact, father engagement, and father financial support and their impact on externalizing and internalizing behavior problems, academic performance, and the social development of the adolescents. References are provided for the statistics cited.
NRFC Quick Statistics and Research Reviews, Brief
This fact sheet includes information and research findings on the child development of adolescents who are ages 15 through 18 years and do not reside with their fathers. Research results are shared on father-child contact, father engagement, and father financial support and their impact on externalizing and internalizing behavior problems, academic performance, and the social development of the adolescents. References are provided for the statistics cited.
