Setting Realistic Goals for New and Emerging Fatherhood Programs

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Setting Realistic Goals for New and Emerging
Fatherhood Programs
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• Community Action Wayne/Medina
• Wooster, Ohio

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Agenda

• I. Introductions/ Objectives
• II. Fatherhood Facts
• III. Developing Realistic Expectations/Getting
  Started
• IV. Marketing/Program implementation
• A. Parent Staff-Community buy-in
• B. Developing Male Involvement
  Activities
• V. Collaborating with other programs services
• VI. Whats the Real Deal?
  (Coping with disappointing
  results)
• VII. Wrap Up

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ObjectivesParticipants Will

• Increase knowledge about implementing a
  fatherhood program
• Increase awareness and knowledge of setting
  realistic goals/outcomes for your program
• Gain information on marketing and implementation
  of your fatherhood initiative
• Increase awareness and knowledge of how to obtain
  parent and staff buy-in
• Increase ideas on Male Involvement Activities
• Analyze, Amend, and Adapt (The 3 As)

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Developing Realistic Expectations/ Getting
Started

• Who is your target group?
• What numbers are to be served?
• How do you develop grant and budget?
• What are your goals, objectives, and outcomes?

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Goals/Objectives(Example)

• Increase the participation of fathers in
  Preschool Head Start classrooms by 50
• Increase the number of father-oriented Emergent
  Literacy special events by 40
• Improve CAW/Ms father-friendly organizational
  culture by 40
• Improve father-child relationship by 50
• Increase the understanding of moms on the
  importance of a male role model in a childs life
  by 60.

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Expected Benefits and/or Outcomes Having
achieved the above objectives(Example)

• Improve Moms understanding about Father-Child
  Relationship
• Participating Fathers will report
• - an increased sense of achievement
• - an understanding of the concept of
  Emergent Literacy
• - an improved father-friendly
  organizational culture
• - an improved father-child relationship

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Marketing Program

• Parent-Staff-Community Buy-In
• Education (Lay the Groundwork)
• Importance of Male Involvement
• Surveys

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Importance of Male Involvement in a Childs Life

• Kids without involved father figures are more
  likely to
• - drop out of school
• - be depressed
• - abuse drugs or alcohol
• - live in poverty
• - exhibit behavior problems
• - become pregnant at an early age
• - struggle in school and receive poor
  grades
• - disrespect women

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Importance of Male Involvement in a Childs

• Children want to be like other children)
• Two actively involved parents
• Men model societys expected gender behavior
• Children do better

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Non Traditional Male Role Models

• Older brother
• Uncle
• Grandfather
• Friend of the family
• Step Dad
• Teacher
• Mothers Significant other
• Neighbor
• Minister
• Bus Driver
• Doctor
• Etc

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Survey Examples
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Program Implementation

• Tips For Getting Men Involved
• Developing Male Involvement Activities
• Activities in use around the Country
• Survey Results

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Tips for getting men involved

• Recognize the contributions of both male and
  female participants
• Encourage men to participate
• Encourage male staff to drop by
• Address men as individuals
• Ask men for their ideas.
• Remember that men think differently than women
• Make Center Environment Father Friendly
• Be patient and persistent

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Male Involvement Activities(CAW/M)

• Weekly open gym night (basketball)
• Parent Meetings/Literacy Activities
• Fatherhood Express Newsletter
• Casey at the Bat
• Fatherhood Lending Library
• Men Reading to Children
• Male Involvement Specialist reports out at Policy
  Council
• Male Involvement Advisory Committee formed.
• Dads support group
• Articles are put in center newsletters

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Male Involvement Activities(In Use Around the
Country)

• Pancake Breakfast
• Dads Day In School
• Mens Fix It Day
• Take Your Dad to Lunch
• Monthly Mens Breakfast
• Fathers Reading Every Day (FRED)

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Collaboration with other programs services

• Intra-agency collaboration
• Inter-agency collaboration
• Male-Friendliness /Environment Audit
• Father-Friendliness Organization Self-Assessment
  and Planning Tool

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Whats the Real Deal?(Coping with disappointing
results)

• Setting up a Support System
• Analyze, Amend, Adapt (The 3 As)
• Learn from Mistakes
• Celebrate Successes

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Wrap-Up

• Tying It All Together
• Questions????