Anticipating September

Statewide Project - Dads, Take Your Child to School Day
OCFS, OTDA, and a few other organizations are sponsoring the second Dads, Take...
Your agency or school district can still get in on the action. Sit in on the webinar on Thursday, Sept. 3rd. Details here

Steering Committee Meeting Scheduled - September 10th, 2pm: See you there? Notes from the last meeting are here.

August Updates

Share a fatherhood story; read stories from others: We've added a new page for stories.

Steering Committee Meeting - August 5th. (Meeting notes here) Plans are underway to continue the Forum work in a series of workshops this fall. We also decided to add a page here to collect everyone's stories. Got one? Join the site and add it, please. It's the stories that keep us energized to work on strengthening fatherhood.

Fatherhood in the Washington Post

Washington Post Article on Fatherhood Shari posted a link to an interesting profile of a teen father from the Washington Post Magazine. Are these the challenges your clients are facing? What did you think of the article? Read the article and join the discussion.

Hudson Valley Fatherhood Cross-System Forum

Great meeting June 24th! Thanks so much to Ken Braswell, Shawn Dove, Alicia Crowe, Gus Ramirez, and Ed Lawson for a great morning starting the conversation. And to us all, as Shawn said, a standing ovation for making such a great start. Listen to the recordings here.

Work group reports: You'll find a separate page for each of the afternoon work groups in the navigation on the left on our webpage. When you read through the reports, do you have something to add? A resource? A gap in services? A story? A brilliant idea or nagging question? Add it to the text or to the discussion thread at the bottom of every page.