Office of Family Assistance
Promoting Responsible Fatherhood

Allowable Activity: Economic Stability - helping fathers improve their economic status by providing job search, job training, subsidized employment, and career advancement education (#1); coordinating with existing employment services (#2); disseminating employment materials (#3); and offering financial planning that encompasses household management, banking, and/or budgeting (#4).

Organization Description: Love, INC is a non-profit that has served the needs of people in crisis in Fairbanks for over 20 years, through a network of agencies and organizations and a volunteer network of approximately 1,800 volunteers and 9 staff members. It processes referrals through a social service type intake database system, assesses need and refers person to appropriate services.

Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Love, INC is designing a program to help fathers by increasing the awareness of making healthy choices through responsible financial management by means of educational training and a personalized service plan of mentors, goal setting and evaluation, and additional help when needed. Each person will be assigned a mentor and provided support services in areas including employment, parenting, marriage and general life skills. Priority target populations include parents of children with disabilities, parents serving in the military and parents recently released from prison.

Office of Family Assistance
Promoting Responsible Fatherhood

Allowable Activity: Responsible Parenting - skill-based parenting education (#1); disseminating parenting practices information (#2); counseling, mentoring, and mediation (#3); disseminating information on the causes of domestic violence and child abuse (#4).

Organizational Description: The Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC) has been in operation for twenty years. The Council serves approximately 14,000 people on an annual basis and is the largest provider of social and human services to Alaskan Natives and American Indians in Anchorage. The child and Family Services Department of CITC has three years experience in developing, implementing, and administering fatherhood involvement programs.

Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The project will support responsible parenting through improved father/child interactions; parenting skills; disseminating information on domestic violence and child abuse; anger management; life skills training; and/or counseling, mentoring, and mediation.

Office of Family Assistance
Promoting Responsible Fatherhood

Allowable Activities: Responsible Parenting -skill-based parenting education (#1); counseling, mentoring, and mediation (#3); Economic Stability - job search, job training, subsidized employment, and career advancement education (#1).

Organizational Description: Catholic Charities of Idaho, incorporated in 2000, has as its mission: (1) to provide quality social services to poor and at-risk populations; (2) to advocate for social justice; and (3) to build community by bringing together people, groups and organizations to work collaboratively on solutions to grave social problems that affect the entire community.

Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Funds will be used to help non-custodial fathers will improve their employment status by providing job readiness, job search, job placement, and financial literacy services; pay child support more regularly; gain and use knowledge of effective and loving parenting skills; overcome social and emotional barriers such as substance abuse and interpersonal conflict; and ensure that 800 to 1,000 non- custodial fathers will receive materials on the importance of their involvement in their children’s lives. Curricula include: Survival Skills for Healthy Families; Los Ninos Bien Educados; Confident Parenting; Raising Children In Troubled Times; Becoming A Love and Logic Parent; and Basic Fatherhood Training.

Office of Family Assistance
Promoting Responsible Fatherhood

Allowable Activities: Economic Stability - helping fathers improve their economic status by providing job search, job training, subsidized employment, and career advancement education (#1); coordinating with existing employment services (#2); disseminating employment materials (#3); and offering financial planning that encompasses household management (#4).

Organizational Description: South Coast Business Employment Corporation is a 501 (c)(3) with over 25 years experience in managing Federal, state, and local programs; not limited to TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families), CETA, JTPA, and WIA (Work Force Investment Act).

Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Conduct comprehensive assessment on 600 individuals; assist 320 individuals acquire high wage jobs; provide life skills training in relationship building, communication, budgeting, and parenting; enhance and/or develop skills appropriate for high growth industry; provide one-on-one vocational counseling; provide worksite training, on-the-job training, and direct referrals for employment. For parenting education the Incredible Years curriculum will be used.

Office of Family Assistance
Promoting Responsible Fatherhood

Allowable Activity Area: Responsible Parenting - Skill-based parenting (#1); Good parenting practices (#2); Counseling, mentoring and mediation (#3); and Domestic violence and child abuse (#4).

Organization Description: First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Seattle, Washington is one of several thousand congregations in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and on the continent of Africa. First A.M.E. Church, Seattle, WA was founded in 1886 and is the oldest congregation in the Pacific Northwest established by African-Americans.

Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: First A.M.E. Child and Family Center has developed its FRESH Start program to improve low income fathers’ parenting skills and involvement in their children’s lives. FRESH Start stands for “Fatherhood, Responsibility, Engagement and Services in Head Start”. FRESH Start combines four strategies to work effectively with low-income fathers and other community organizations that serve the same target population. These strategies are: 1) Support fathers through Head Start’s enrollment process to identify strengths and challenges and set goals; 2) Reach fathers through father-child social activities; 3) Enhance fathers’ development through workshops and support groups; and 4) Collaborate with community organizations to provide a network of high quality services specifically designed for fathers and their families. FRESH Start’s goals are to: 1) increase the number of low income fathers involved in their child’s education; 2) enhance parenting skills; 3) improve advocacy, leadership and financial skills of fathers; and 3) encourage fathers to attend ESL classes and job training.