Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Resources for Fathers...
Today's resource comes from Canada and is specifically geared for the guys. It is the Father Involvement Initiative.
The Father Involvement Initiative goes back to 1997 when Health Canada commissioned a literature review aimed at developing an action plan to promote Father Involvement in Ontario. It had become clear at that time that fatherlessness presented a challenge in relation to healthy child development and resiliency. With this first report entitled Father Involvement: a Supportive Condition to Healthy Child Development, Health Canada developed a working partnership with the Peterborough Family Resource Centre in order to begin the process of implementing some of the recommendations that came from the report.
Go to the Resources Section and you will find some great resources at this site including posters, downloadble booklets, and more. I recommend taking a look at the booklets, they are very well done. There is even a section of articles about father involvement.
And as long as we're looking at resources for fathers, don't forget to download the Father Toolkit from My Daddy Matters... lots of good information in there.
How about sharing any great resources for guys that you know of?
Today's resource comes from Canada and is specifically geared for the guys. It is the Father Involvement Initiative.
The Father Involvement Initiative goes back to 1997 when Health Canada commissioned a literature review aimed at developing an action plan to promote Father Involvement in Ontario. It had become clear at that time that fatherlessness presented a challenge in relation to healthy child development and resiliency. With this first report entitled Father Involvement: a Supportive Condition to Healthy Child Development, Health Canada developed a working partnership with the Peterborough Family Resource Centre in order to begin the process of implementing some of the recommendations that came from the report.
Go to the Resources Section and you will find some great resources at this site including posters, downloadble booklets, and more. I recommend taking a look at the booklets, they are very well done. There is even a section of articles about father involvement.
And as long as we're looking at resources for fathers, don't forget to download the Father Toolkit from My Daddy Matters... lots of good information in there.
How about sharing any great resources for guys that you know of?
// posted by Tammy Wachter @ 4:12 PM 
