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NPCL is pleased to continue the work of Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) by providing three-day skill building workshops for practitioners working with young fathers. These highly interactive workshops have been well received by hundreds of practitioners around the country since 1994. Each workshop participant receives a copy of Fatherhood Development: A Curriculum for Young Fathers, which was designed for use in P/PV’s Young Unwed Fathers Pilot Project. The workshops focus on facilitating peer support groups for fathers and include segments on planning a program, dealing with child support issues, funding, evaluation, and forming necessary service linkages. The goal is to provide practitioners with a range of tools and techniques designed to strengthen service delivery. Major workshop components include:
The Curriculum Fatherhood Development: A Curriculum for Young Fathers Fatherhood Development, which is available through participation in one of NPCL’s Skill-Building Workshops, addresses the real experiences and challenges of young fathers through 25 streetwise group discussion sessions that provide support, information and motivation in the areas of parenthood, relationships, sexuality, and responsible manhood. The curriculum was developed by Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) and field-tested in P/PV’s Young Unwed Fathers Pilot Project. Several practitioners have described it as the “glue” that makes their programs work. It is designed for use with fathers in peer support groups in programs that also provide, directly or through partnering organizations, a comprehensive array of services that include educational, employment, counseling, legal and other support services. The approach is designed to help young fathers deal with the pressures of early fatherhood; take steps to develop clear career development plans; develop an ongoing relationship with the mother of their children (whether or not this means marriage); and, most importantly, to ensure that they play an involved, positive role in the lives of their children. The 25 sessions are organized around five areas of content, as follows:
Working with Fathers Staff Training Workshops Research shows that children who grow up without a father actively involved in their lives are more likely to suffer negative consequences as they grow older than children whose fathers play ongoing, involved roles. More and more family-serving agencies are recognizing the benefits for children and families of providing supportive services for fathers. Are you working in an agency that is supposed to provide services to families but you actually serve very few fathers? Do you worry that your agency is not father-friendly? Are you committed to serving fathers but need additional tools to do the job well? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you will want to attend one of our workshops. The National Partnership for Community Leadership
(NPCL) delivers a
wide range of training workshops for management and staff of public and
private family-serving agencies. The workshops are designed to help
build the skills of direct service staff working with fathers and families;
encourage more awareness of the service needs of fragile families; facilitate
program planning and capacity building; and promote collaborative community
approaches. Workshops available in 2006 include: Working
With Fathers: Building Skills for Practitioners. NPCL's
flagship workshop since 1996. For direct service staff and managers who
are closely involved with developing fatherhood initiatives. All
participants receive a copy of Fatherhood Development: A Curriculum for Young
Fathers. (3-Day.)
*NEW WORKSHOP* Helping fathers develop and maintain positive relationships. Helping parents develop and maintain positive relationships in the best interests of their children. Introduction and modeling of a set of new, draft sessions for the Relationships module of the Fatherhood Development curriculum. (One-day.) CUSTOMIZED WORKSHOPS--All of the above workshops can be
tailored to the needs of particular organizations or communities. For
example, since 2000 we have provided a series of workshops specifically for
Head Start agencies. To arrange a customized workshop in your area,
contact 2006
SKILL-BUILDING WORKSHOP SERIES
NPCL's three-day skill-building workshops are packed with information, strategies and advice about how to recruit, counsel and support young fathers in their quest to be actively involved in their children's lives, despite a multitude of barriers. Participants receive a range of tools and techniques designed to strengthen service delivery, including a copy of Fatherhood Development: A Curriculum for Young Fathers, which consists of 25 sessions to use in parenting or peer support groups. These highly interactive and well-received workshops include:
Registration -To allow for full participation,
registration is limited to 25 people based on a first come first served
basis. We recommend that project administrators and direct service
staff attend together as a team for maximum benefit. The registration cost,
which includes all workshop resources, is $375.00. You may register by fax or
mail. Contact Cancellations/Substitutions Cancellations must be received in writing. If you cancel your registration 15 or more business days before a workshop, your registration fee will be refunded, less a $100 enrollment charge. No refunds may be made less than 15 days prior to your scheduled workshop. However, you may send one designated substitute. Please note that once you've selected and paid for a workshop, you will NOT be able to apply the fee to a future workshop. NPCL reserves the right to make changes in workshops and facilitators, or cancel workshops if enrollment criteria are not met or when conditions beyond its control prevail. Each registrant will be contacted if a workshop is cancelled. If a workshop is not held for any reason, NPCL's liability is limited to the refund of the workshop fee. A NEW ONE-DAY TRAINING WORKSHOP
Working
With Young Fathers: Helping Fathers Develop Since Fatherhood Development: A Curriculum for Young Fathers was first written in 1990, it has been used by hundreds of practitioners in their work with fathers. We have heard many success stories as fathers have worked together to better understand themselves, renew their commitment to their children, and increase their parenting skills. Although many fathers have also improved their relationship skills and found ways to work more co-operatively with the mothers of their children, even in some cases to the extent of formalizing their relationships through marriage, many practitioners have reported challenges in helping fathers manage their relationships with the mothers of their children. In response to these challenges, we have developed six new curriculum sessions designed to help fathers develop co-operative (or "team") relationships with the mothers of their children and consider the benefits of marriage and commitment in their own and their children's lives. This new one-day workshop is primarily for graduates of NPCL's 3-day workshop "Working with Fathers: Building Skills for Practitioners," but it could also be appropriate for others working with fathers. Workshop participants will:
Registration
-The
registration cost, which includes lunch and all workshop resources, is
$375. NOTE: If you register for a one-day workshop in conjunction with
a scheduled 3-day workshop, you get a reduced one-day rate of $300. You may
register by fax or mail. Contact
Strengthening
Fragile Families Training Institute (SFFTI) The Strengthening Fragile
Families Training Institute (SFFTI) was designed by the National Partnership
for Community Leadership (NPCL) and the PAIRS Foundation to offer an exciting
training opportunity for practitioners working in community and faith-based
organizations, and government agencies. SFFTI draws upon the fifty
years of combined experience of NPCL and PAIRS in working with fragile
families on parenting and healthy relationships skills. During SFFTI, NPCL staff
focuses on building the skills of practitioners to work with low-income
mothers and fathers based on NPCL’s Partners for Fragile Families Curriculum, and
Working with Young Mothers Workbook. Training participants learn
how to establish effective peer support groups, recruiting fathers,
partnering with programs serving mothers and children, creating collaborative
case management support systems, and techniques for facilitating training
sessions for mothers and fathers. The NPCL Partners
for Fragile Families Curriculum and Working with Young Mothers Workbook have
five modules respectively, that serve as the foundation for understanding and
working with low-income mothers and fathers including: Personal Development;
Life Skills; Responsible Parenting; Relationship Building; and Developing
Healthy Behaviors. During SFFTI, PAIRS staff
focuses on teaching the core skills for bonding and emotional literacy.
Based upon the work of Dr. Lori Gordon, this research based program teaches
communication, problem solving, and confiding skills as well as skills for
constructively working through emotions such as anger, sadness and fear.
Through interactive teaching and experiential exercises PAIRS has been
teaching couples from all age groups, races, income status as well as the
faith community. The skills experienced and learned not only apply to
adult relationships but also for parent-child relationships. All NPCL/PAIRS training
sessions are interactive and utilize experiential learning techniques.
SFFTI is conducted over a four-day period from to each day with morning and afternoon breaks, and one hour for
lunch. At the conclusion of the four-day workshop each participant
receives a NPCL/PAIRS completion certificate. Strengthening
Fragile Families Training Institute Schedule: July 10 - 13, September 26 – 29, November 7 – 10, Registration -The registration cost, which
includes all workshop resources, is $650. You may register by fax or
mail. Contact
In
addition to our public workshops, we offer a variety of customized workshops,
which are tailored to the needs of particular organizations or communities Our one-day customized
workshops can be designed to deal with one or more of the following issues:
These one-day
workshops are appropriate for staff from a wide variety of settings including
social service agencies, juvenile justice programs, employment and training
programs, child support enforcement agencies, schools substance abuse
programs, teen parenting programs, hospitals, family planning and prenatal
clinics, domestic violence programs, Head Start and other child care programs
and youth development agencies.
A skill-building workshop similar to the aforementioned public workshops can be individually tailored for staff in your agency. The advantage of a customized workshop is that our trainers focus on your specific needs and the particular training needs of your staff. In addition, you can
contract with NPCL to bring our three-day skill building workshop to your
community and then use your own networks and marketing strategies to register
participants. Unless otherwise indicated, all
workshops will be held at: The For more
information on customized workshops, please contact: The National
Partnership for Community Leadership 1875 I Street, NW, Phone: 202-429-2027 The Forms are available in HTML and PDF formats.
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