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Support Families Through the Father Connection

This Father’s Day, we honor the importance of a critical family connection to make throughout the continuum of child welfare services—to fathers and paternal family members!

While research continues to highlight the importance of this partnership in improving outcomes for children, child welfare agencies can face many challenges when trying to identify and engage with father and paternal kin.

So how can you overcome these challenges and implement strategies that make it easier to effectively engage fathers and paternal family members?

An expanding suite of resources is available to help you! Use the tools below to find strategies and evidence-based practices that will help you establish this essential connection and promote family well-being in your practice.

• Engaging Fathers and Paternal Family Members
  Find tools and resources to better engage and support fathers and paternal family members.
  
  
• Engaging Fathers and Paternal Family Members: State and Local Examples
  Discover state and local examples of successful father engagement.
  
  
• Fatherhood Resources to Promote Family Well-Being
  Find resources to support fatherhood at the federal, community, and individual levels.
  
  
• Child Welfare Information Gateway Podcast Series: Engaging Fathers
  
  
  • Episode 71: Engaging Fathers – Putting Lessons Into Practice, Part 1 Shares strategies implemented to engage fathers from Prowers County, Colorado. 
  • Episode 72: Engaging Fathers - Putting Lessons Into Practice, Part 2 Shares strategies implemented to engage fathers from Los Angeles County, California.
  • Episode 73: Engaging Fathers - Putting Lessons Into Practice, Part 3 Shares strategies implemented to engage fathers from Prowers County, Colorado.
    
    

• Opening up Possibilities: Father Engagement Lessons During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
  Read insights from six teams representing five state or county child welfare agencies on how they used a Breakthrough Series Collaborative continuous learning method to engage fathers and paternal relatives. (See also: A Breakthrough Series on Engaging Fathers and Paternal Relatives in Child Welfare: A System Response to COVID-19 and Racial Unrest)

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