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This brief highlights examples of how child welfare agencies participating in the Fathers and Continuous Learning project leveraged partnerships to increase father and paternal relative engagement, and describes how those examples may inform strategies that fatherhood programs can use to increase father engagement; connect fathers and families to resources; create a more cohesive client experience across father-serving organizations; expand capacity to serve a diverse group of fathers; and document, understand, and communicate the outcomes of their programs.
This brief describes four strategies fatherhood programs can consider to promote racial equity, based on the experiences of five child welfare agencies committed to cultivating racial equity for men of color in the child welfare system, as part of the Fathers and Continuous Learning in Child Welfare (FCL) project.
Explore an infographic from the Fathers and Continuous Learning project, which describes opportunities for a father or paternal relative to be engaged during the lifecycle of a child welfare case.
Read the evaluation design report the Fathers and Continuous Learning project, which is testing the use of the Breakthrough Series Collaborative to strengthen engagement of fathers and paternal relatives in the child welfare system
OPRE’s Fathers and Continuous Learning project has published a brief on the unexpected challenges teams participating in the project's Breakthrough Series Collaborative faced during COVID-19, and their innovative adaptations to allow the work to continue.