FRPN Webinar: Two Generation Strategies to Engage and Serve Low-Income Fathers
Oct 2017Many community based organizations are delivering services targeted to parents and children. The ninth FRPN learning community webinar presents new approaches to engaging low-income fathers to improve their parenting skills and/or relationships with their children. Three programs working to get fathers and their children involved in interactive activities that are also embedded with parenting information and feedback are highlighted.
The webinar's featured programs and researchers include:
- Just Beginning (aka “Baby Elmo”): Rachel Barr, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University (Rachel.Barr@georgetown.edu) and Terry Harrak, Just Beginning Program Manager, Youth Law Center, San Francisco (tharrak@qpiylc.org)
- The Fathers and Sons Program: Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, Ph.D. Professor of Health, Behavior and Health Education and Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health, University of Michigan (tharrak@qpiylc.org)
- The Coaching Our Acting-Out Children Program: Heightening Essential Skills (COACHES) Program: Gregory Fabiano, Ph.D., Professor of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology, University at Buffalo (fabiano@buffalo.edu)
Watch the webinar below or download the presenter slides.
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