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Fathers Get Help At Lighthouse Youth Services - Local 12 - Cincinnati
Men graduate from program with skills to be better fathers - www.mysanantonio.com
Nurturing Fathers takes an 'ohana approach - Native Spirituality embraced by pa'ahao - OFFICE of HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS
Dayton News- Nurturing Fathers get their dad diplomas - 13-week class offered by Miami Valley Partnership for Fathers Initiative teaches men how to be better dads
It's graduation day for prison fathers - February 23, 2008 DALLAS, TX The Father Accountability Program referenced in this article uses the
13-week Nurturing Fathers Program curriculum.
Michigan gets recognized by CWLA Children's Voices for their "Proud Fathers/Proud Parents Program" using Nurturing Fathers and MArriage & PArenting Programs.
Father figure - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
While he struggled for decades as a father, Dudoit says that through the local
Nurturing Fathers program, he's "learned a different way to father. ...
Mark Perlman, author of the Nurturing Father's Program and the ... Aug 11, 2008 ... (EMAILWIRE.COM, August 11, 2008 ) Prevent Child Abuse Vermont and the Family Nurturing Center of Central New York have been designated the ...
Mark Perlman to launch the Nurturing Father's Program in Oneida Nation Fathering and Parenting Expert, Mark Perlman, to appear in Oneida, Wisconsin.
Chaffee County Hosts Nurturing Fathers Program Facilitation Workshop Salida, Colo. – July 26, 2007 – According to the National Fatherhood Initiative, children with involved, loving fathers are more likely to do well in school ...
The Nurturing Father Program - El Paso County, Colorado - Human ... The Nurturing Father's Curriculum is a 13-week group-based program for developing attitudes and ... The Father I Choose To Be. The Nurturing Father's Program.
Sun Herald - 10/10/05
To do this he enrolled in Nurturing Dads Program -- a multiagency-sponsored
initiative to help fathers learn how to be better parents. ...
Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Magazine / Gen X Dad
Even at a time when men are working as hard as ever, much has been made of the
emergence of the new nurturing father. Around the time that Dustin Hoffman ...
Teaching Men to be Nurturing Fathers
Can we teach nurturing? Do men really have the
capacity to learn nurturing skills and attitudes?
8/2010 - Tony Vecchio - the D.A.D. Project
Press Release:
August 2006 Perry, FL.
Boys Club of Perry, FL - Annie E. Casey Foundation Award
March 2005 Olympia, WA.
State of WA, Dept. of Corrections approves Nurturing Fathers Program as "Statewide Standardized Program" for use in prisons and correctional settings statewide.
January 2006: North Carolina Department of Corrections:
North Carolina Department of Corrections receives Federal Grant from The Department of Justice to implement The Nurturing Father's Program. Mr. Mike Price, Western Region DOC Administrator, announced that The NFP will be implemented at 11 sites at minimum security and pre-release facilities. Mark Perlman presented a 2-day Facilitator Training to over 40 DOC professionals in the Western Region. Audrey Berry (Father Accountability Coordinator), Robert Simmons (Buncomb Correctional Facility), and Rev. Reggie Longcrier (Catawba Correctional Facility) were certified as NFP Consultant/Trainers. There is statewide support and high expectations that this 2 year project will have a positive impact on incarcerated fathers, their children and families, and result in lower recidivism rates.
February 2006: State of Michigan
State of Michigan announces $1 million dollars for statewide implementation of The Nurturing Father's and MArriage & PArenting Programs. Proud Fathers-Proud Parents has been created to strengthen families and to improve outcomes for children. Individual contracts, not to exceed $70,000, will be awarded to 21 sites to implement NFP and MA&PA. Department of Human Services may award contracts for the period April 1, 2006 through September 30, 2008, and a possible fourth year extension may be offered. Services are designed to promote individual and shared parental responsibility, strengthen family relationships, and improve co-parenting skills among Michigan couples. Duane M. Wilson, Children' Services Administration, is a certified Consultant/Trainer for NFP and MA&PA, and is the Grant Manager for Proud Fathers - Proud Parents.
Matthew Keller awarded 2006 Community Corrections Officer of the Year in the State of Washington
Matt is a Certified Nurturing Fathers and MArriage & PArenting Programs Consultant/Trainer, presenting both programs at Brownstone Work Release.
Matt has done an outstanding job assisting offenders work towards a better future for themselves and their children. When he joined the team at the Brownstone Work Release in 2003, Matt immediately volunteered to become trained as a facilitator of the Nurturing Father's Program which focuses on working with offenders to look at how they were "fathered," and how that affects how they "father" their own children. The positive feedback from the participants indicated this class was having a huge impact. This past year, Matt was excited to become involved with a new program called "Marriage and Parenting." Matt was the perfect candidate to become certified as a trainer of facilitators for the programs and has trained other facilitators across the state.
Matt is to be commended for assisting offenders to break
dysfunctional parenting patterns and develop healthy relationships with their
children. His personal investment of time and energy despite significant
workload and responsibilities is what makes Matt Keller a significant
contributor to the vision of Working Together for Safer Communities.
8/2010 - Tony Vecchio - the D.A.D. Project
You know the old saying: Behind every good man is a great woman. There
really is no better couple that exemplifies this than Tony and Marilyn
Vecchio.
There is no doubt Marilyn, the brains and brawn behind Big Bear Valley's
Mothers on Mountain Project, inspires us every year. She has helped
countless parents survive parenthood, constantly improving on the offerings
of the First 5-funded M.O.M. Project, part of the Bear Valley Community
Health Care District.
What some may not know is that during the last three years, the D.A.D.
Project started from a Daddy and Me class Tony facilitated. While it was
Marilyn who came up with the idea after attending a workshop in Florida, it
was her husband, Tony, who ran with it and gave it the male point of view
that holds it together.
In 2008, Marilyn and Tony started the 12-week Nurturing Fathers class, a
curriculum-based program for dads and granddads, which helps good dads
become great dads. After the first set of classes finished, Tony put
together a D.A.D. Project advisory board that included some dads from the
first run of classes to granddads and others who were very passionate about
the program.
The group started setting up tables at community events and spreading the
word about the joys of fatherhood and friendship. For Father's Day, the
Vecchios' church, Community Church by the Lake, honored Tony as, no
surprise, Father of the Year. All the board members showed up to help
celebrate the man who helped change their lives.
“When you see these lights turn on in these dads, it's really exciting,”
Tony said about the Nurturing Fathers participants. “I've just had the
greatest time. I see them around town and now we're like best friends. And
what we have in common is that we love being dads.”
“Tony is the maven,” said board member Kurt Lofland, a father with grown
children. “He is the catalyst.” Lofland said he is impressed with Tony's
enigmatic handling of the classroom environment. He is humble,
nonthreatening and nonjudgmental, which makes it a comfortable place for
dads to open up, he said.
“He's like a rock for these young dads,” said Mickey Skinner, a grandfather
and great grandfather who teaches and learns as part of the group. “He tells
it like it is. He doesn't sugarcoat it. But he's so laid-back he makes
everyone feel comfortable and safe. He gives input just like part of the
group. Some guys don't have anywhere else to turn.”
“Tony just makes you feel like you can open up, no holds barred,” said
Michael George, another Nurturing Fathers graduate and board member who says
his experience with the group has made him a better dad. “This class needs
to spread like a bad disease.”
from BigBearGrizzly.net
