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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.

This brief details lessons learned in the FCL project that may be applicable to Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood programs.

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 about the adaptation of an online training for parents and caregivers of youth in foster care on adolescent sexual health topics.

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.

Explore research sponsored by OPRE's Division of Family Strengthening in fiscal year 2020 related to strengthening relationships within families, supporting fatherhood, nurturing children through their families, reducing teen pregnancy, supporting youth in their transition to adulthood, and preventing family violence.

In the fall of 2016, OPRE brought together a diverse group of participants from federal agencies, research firms, foundations, and academia to discuss alternatives to randomized controlled trials and their assumptions, trade-offs, benefits, and challenges.

There is growing emphasis placed on evidence-based interventions, and opportunities to make programmatic decisions based on evidence reflect progress in promoting positive outcomes. However, some populations (e.g., ethnic and cultural minority communities, marginalized groups) may be left behind in efforts to build evidence, if they are more difficult to study. Over time, as evidence builds for the populations...