C5 - Locating & Engaging Fathers Toolkit

The Locating & Engaging Fathers Toolkit is an engagement tool that seeks to enhance the ability of child welfare workers to identify, locate and engage the absent parent who often is the father.  A review of the barriers that discourage fathers from being involved will demonstrate how there are a number of levels to overcome.  Yet once located, an understanding of the gender differences in learning, socializing, and parenting will help strategize how to define methods to engage, including defining the benefits of father involvement.

Presenter(s): Will Henry, Center for Development of Human Services, New York, NY