This is the first of the two building evaluation capacity guides. It focuses on evaluation design, including identification and operationalization of program goals, building of logic models, and indicator setting. This guide also covers the selection of indicators to be measured and appropriate measures for these indicators. It begins with the identification of program goals. Subsequent sections discuss the construction of logic models and the evaluation approach, including the generation of evaluation questions, the setting of indicators, and the integration of evaluation questions and…
This guide concerns data -- its collection, reporting, and use. The first section lays out the multiple issues involved in data collection: the strengths and weaknesses of formats that can be used in data collection; data-collection scheduling; data quality and methods of ensuring it; data unique to individual projects; and confidentiality and the protection of human subjects in data collection. Other sections of this report concern ways of building data-collection capacity among projects; rationales, sources, and measures of comparison data; issues inherent in the reporting and displaying…
How To Raise Emotionally Healthy Children is a wake-up call to America that we are abandoning our children emotionally. Failure to support our children's emotional health at home and in schools is jeopardizing their future and that of our nation. The book has a compelling and provocative message about parent-child relations. It provides powerful and practical concepts and tools that enable parents, teachers, and childcare providers to interact with children and with each other in emotionally healthy ways. In the process, children learn to interact with each other in the same way. How to Raise…
When parents split up, it's hard on everyone in the family, especially children. This page contains
1) a video where families share their experiences parenting together while living apart, where they discuss how community resources helped them work through conflict and achieve a positive dynamic for their children; and,
2) a co-parenting guide full of information about ways parents who live apart can work together to take care of their children.
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This workbook has been designed to help new fathers record some of their observations and memories during the first year of fatherhood. Fatherhood triggers many strong emotions as well as an opportunity to think about values. This book allows you to record observations about your developing baby as well as to reflect upon your own experiences as a new father. Try to take time on a regular basis to jot down your observations and reflections. The exercises and questions will guide you through some of the important stages of infant development as well as father development. This book is…
After-school specials about teenage pregnancy abound. Whether in television or in society, the focus tends to towards young girls coping with all of the emotional and physical burdens of pregnancy. Rarely is the perspective of the teenage fathers portrayed.
In this informative book, Mark Kiselica draws on his many years of counseling teenage fathers to offer a compassionate look at the difficult life circumstances and the complicated hardships these young men experience. Through vignettes of real-life experiences, based on Kiselica's many years of counseling, readers are offiered a…
Our Father, Father to the Fatherless is a compelling memoir by Bruce Smith chronicling his life as a fatherless boy growing up in segregated Texas and his rise to fame and fortune as a star professional football player and real estate mogul. As his story unfolds, ghosts from his past and the lingering effects of being raised without a stable father figure, haunt him. Throughout the book, Smith takes the reader on an emotional, sometimes funny, at times painful journey, illustrating how the power of personal redemption and salvation transforms his life. A thought provoking read, it draws…
How do young black fathers relate to their children, as well as to their own fathers? How do they see -- and play -- their roles in both family and community? These are some of the big questions this timely, accessible book addresses. Written by both popular commentators and those who have experienced the issues firsthand, Be a Father to Your Child begins with a frank discussion of how family formation has changed since the 1960s, especially for communities of color. Individual selections then flesh out historical, sociological, and cultural contexts, examining the impact of welfare, child…
For guys who don't read baby books, but want to be great dads, Crash Course for New Dads is the collective knowledge of over 200,000 new fathers; the real experts. Unlike other baby books, Crash Course for New Dads has only what you need to know in easy-to-grasp lists, charts and tear-outs. The highlights include the childbirth coaching guide, an essential guide to childbirth and the Troubleshooters Guide to Crying Babies, an easy to use tool for finding out why your baby is crying. This is comprehensive information for dads-to-be at its best straight, concise and in a format that makes it…
Fatherhood is gaining ever more public and political attention, stimulated by the increasing prominence of fathers' rights groups and the introduction of social policies, such as paternity leave. Intimate Fatherhood explores discourses of contemporary fatherhood, men's parenting behaviour and debates about fathers' rights and responsibilities.The book addresses the extent to which fatherhood has changed by examining key dichotomies - culture versus conduct, involved versus uninvolved and public versus private. The book also looks at longstanding conundrums such as the apparent discrepancy…
