CANCELED A2 - Enhancing Agency Outcomes for Children: The Integration of Responsible Fatherhood within Foster Care Service Delivery

This workshop explores critical components for positioning child welfare agencies to expand capacity to improve outcomes for children through the integration of child welfare and fatherhood programming, including quality father engagement policies, practices, procedures, and protocols.  This workshop is presented in panel format that includes a federal child welfare official, a private foster care agency provider, a juvenile justice community provider agency, and a researcher involved in the development of a child welfare-fatherhood integration model.

Presenters: Rufus Sylvester Lynch, Bryn Mawr College, Graduate School of Social Work & Social Research, Philadelphia, PA; Darlene Tart, Department of HHS,ACF, Region III, Philadelphia, PA; Darlene Hewett, Presbyterian Children’s Village, Philadelphia, PA; and Sulaiman A. Wood, The Bridge, Philadelphia, PA