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Responsible Fatherhood Spotlight: Fathers and Alcohol Abuse

Alcohol abuse has negative consequences for men’s health, their relationships with their partners, and their children’s well-being. Alcohol abuse rates for men declined in the late 1980s, but increased between 1990 and 2000. 

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Matthew McConaughey has some classes on fatherhoodIn an interview with CNN's Anderson Coop...https://www.newszada.com/matthew-mcconaughey-has-some-classes-on-fatherhood/?feed_id=557166&_unique_id=5f93202a87e71

[spinachandmushrooms]

@Regrann from @sarahmgellar - Such a great afternoon for such an amazing cause. If you haven't checked out @goodplusfdn and the #fatherhoodinitiative please do. The work is life changing. I am so proud to be a part of the team. Thank you @jessseinfeld @jerryseinfeld #Regrann

[creativemedicinehtw]

Listen up sistas, "When fathers are reminded of how significant they are, they'll be encouraged to take responsibility". A brotha stated the quote at last years Date with Dad weekend. I honestly believe this is true and the research supports it #BlackFatherhood #BlackFathers #fatherhoodinitiative #NBTO

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Can't wait.... *****This Saturday**** 12p-3p at #NuLifeSuperior we will be impacting some children's lives! Introducing our youth to "Healthy Living"! Have you REGISTERED You & your child?? You & Your niece? You & Your nephew, neighbor or cousin? If you know a child that needs a healthy influence in their lives... STAND in the Gap! BE the CHANGE they need to see! #cuyahogacounty #fatherhoodinitiative #cleveland #thisiscle #childhoodobesity STOPS HERE! #NuLife #NuWayofLiving #nulifefitnesscamp

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#WakeUpWednesday from the #BrainFoodTour with #OTBX🎥 #Children are our future! They learn by example, not by what U tell them. Pay💰 attention❗️ #WakeTheFlockUp #MoBDick #MySon #FathersAdvocacy #FatherhoodInitiative #Family #Love 👪💔💖

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#mayorLUTRELL #fatherhoodINITIATIVE #gettingPREPPEDup

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Responsible Fatherhood Spotlight: Teen Fatherhood

The teen birth rate has continued to decline after peaking in 1991. Yet some teens are still becoming fathers at a young age. Research indicates that this early fatherhood typically is unintended, regularly occurs outside of marriage, and has implications for teen fathers, their children, and their families. Some key demographic differences shape who becomes a teenage father, as well as the consequences of being a teen father.

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Responsible Fatherhood Spotlight: Fathers and Substance Use

Fathers who abuse drugs not only hurt themselves but they hurt the closest people in their lives. While illicit substance use rates for men have declined since the 1970s, these rates remain higher for men than for women. This drug use is more common among young, less educated unmarried men in minority groups than among other fathers.

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Dangerous Masculinity: Fatherhood, Race, and Security Inside America's Prisons (Critical Issues in Crime and Society) by Anna Curtis

For incarcerated fathers, prison rather than work mediates access to their families. Prison rules and staff regulate phone privileges, access to writing materials, and visits. Perhaps even more important are the ways in which the penal system shapes men’s gender performances. Incarcerated men must negotiate how they will enact violence and aggression, both in terms of the expectations placed upon inmates by the prison system and in terms of their own responses to these expectations. Additionally, the relationships between incarcerated men and the mothers of their children change, particularly since women now serve as “gatekeepers” who control when and how they contact their children. This book considers how those within the prison system negotiate their expectations about “real” men and “good” fathers, how prisoners negotiate their relationships with those outside of prison, and in what ways this negotiation reflects their understanding of masculinity.

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The present study aimed to assess the uniqueness of released prisoners’ paternal practice – their involvement in child rearing, as well as their affection toward and acceptance of their children – and its predictors by comparing them to control fathers who have never been arrested or imprisoned.

The study further suggests that low spousal support contributed more to paternal involvement among fathers with high narcissistic traits. The results warrant an intervention while fathers are incarcerated, during which their paternity can be strengthened, and their bond with their children preserved. Family interventions upon fathers' reentry may also lend support to paternal practice, as well as to released prisoner fathers' relationships with their spouse/co-parent.

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Best Practice Guide for Engaging Fathers: A Toolkit for Children Services Staff

This Best Practice Guide contains suggestions for ways agencies can include fathers earlier and more effectively in each case, to ensure the best outcome for children. We know that agencies have different levels of paternal engagement, and that changing agency culture and practice takes time and effort. This guide is designed to meet agencies where they are in that process.

It covers the following topics:

Agency Readiness

Communications/Buy-in

Workgroup Development

Policy and Procedure Development

Program Assessment

Strategies for Engaging Fathers at All Stages of a Case

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The Father Engagement Strategies will help program staff think about how to ensure fathers feel respected as equal contributors in child-rearing and in early childhood programs. It provides information that can be applied quickly to enhance father engagement.

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Parental Substance Use: A Primer for Child Welfare Professionals | Children’s Bureau, An Office of the Administration for Children & Families

This factsheet reviews what substance use disorders (SUDs) are, how parental substance use affects families, and how child welfare professionals can support these families. It also considers how collaboration between child welfare professionals and SUD treatment providers, as well as others, is an essential component to assisting families.

This factsheet is intended to serve as a brief primer on the intersection of parental SUDs and child welfare rather than a comprehensive guide. Additional information and resources are provided throughout to help readers explore the topic in more detail.

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Understanding the Needs of Children of Parents with Substance Use of Co-Occurring Disorders - Child Welfare Training Toolkit 

From the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, a program of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Administration for Children and Families, Children’s Bureau

Learning Objectives:

Identify the effects of parental substance use and co-occurring disorders on child development during the prenatal and postnatal period, childhood, and adolescence

Recognize the effects of parental substance use or co-occurring disorders on family dynamics and the care of children

Discuss the unique needs of children of parents with substance use or co-occurring disorders, including the child’s own substance use or co-occurring disorders

Explain treatment strategies, systems of care, and support services available to children