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Increasing Father Involvement in Case Planning

Increasing Father Involvement in Case Planning. Session Goals. Increase involvement strategies from a dad’s experience. Examine distinctive challenges to father involvement. Discuss outcome research on father involvement in case planning.

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Increasing Father Involvement in Case Planning

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  1. Increasing Father Involvement in Case Planning

  2. Session Goals • Increase involvement strategies from a dad’s experience. • Examine distinctive challenges to father involvement. • Discuss outcome research on father involvement in case planning. • Explore more strategies and resources to increase father involvement.

  3. Systemic Challenges • Historically dismissive attitudes toward father involvement. • The “consenting to my own irrelevance” phenomenon. • The ”more trouble than it’s worth” phenomenon.

  4. Duane’s Father Engagement Clues

  5. 5 Incredible Father Engagement Tips Exercise • WHAT CLUES DOES DUANE GIVE FOR BUILDING PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH FATHERS? • Start with the RESOURCE HANDOUT—DUANE’S . . . CLUES—to jump start the discussion. • Compare & discuss your findings as table groups • Agree on 5 INCREDIBLE ENGAGEMENT TIPS. • Explain your choices

  6. Custodial Mother Involvement Challenges Non Custodial Father Involvement Challenges Frequently cited problems Services routinely offered for these problem sets • Alcohol/drugs • Criminal justice involvement • Mental/physical health • Domestic violence • No child care • Prior finding of abuse/neglect • Unemployment • Inadequate housing/homelessness DHHS Research, 2006 • Alcohol & Drugs • Criminal justice involvement • Mental/physical health • Domestic violence • No child care • Prior finding of abuse/neglect • Unemployment • Inadequate housing/homelessness

  7. Problem Comparisons in Child Welfare Cases Custodial Mothers • Rates of substance abuse (65%) • Involvement with criminal justice (38%) DHHS Research, 2006 Non-Custodial Fathers • Rates of substance abuse (58%) • Involvement with criminal justice (53%)

  8. The Broader Reality Mother problems complicate case planning. • Father problems tend to cancel out case involvement.

  9. Outcome Research • Fears • Caseworkers and administrators fear that involving noncustodial fathers—given the kinds of challenges—will likely result in future abuse allegations. Facts Higher father involvement when a child is reunified with the mother is associated with a substantially lower likelihood of subsequent maltreatment allegations. More about Dads: Exploring Associations between Nonresident Fathers Involvement and Child Welfare Case Outcomes , Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children’s Bureau, 2008

  10. Positive Outcomes Engaging non-custodial fathers in case planning improves outcomes for children in vital case planning areas • Higher likelihood of reunification. • Children leave foster care more quickly. • Increase of formal and informal supports. More about Dads: Exploring Associations between Nonresident Fathers Involvement and Child Welfare Case Outcomes , Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children’s Bureau, 2008.

  11. Negative Professional Contacts

  12. Positive Professional Contacts

  13. Incarcerated Fathers~~Resources for Increasing Involvement Inside the Incarcerated Father’s Library: • A Father’s Story • 1.5 Million Minor Children have a Mother or Father in Prison • Long Distance Dads • Preparing a Child for a Prison Visit • Telling the Children (tips on “how to” discussions) • Tips from a Father in Prison . • www.fcnetwork.org.

  14. Subject to Change Well over ½ of incarcerated fathers grew up in fatherless households If you really want to change the hearts of men—change how they view themselves.Inmate Quote

  15. LEO’S CASE PLAN • Parenting without violence • 52 weeks domestic violence battery classes • NA, AA 12 step meetings • Random drug & alcohol testing • Supervised visits with children • Family night parenting class • Outpatient treatment • And therapy

  16. Simple Truth When we adopt beliefs that fathers may be interested in involvement, fathers are more likely to be interested, giving us energy to work together. What about the Dads: Child Welfare Agencies’ Efforts to Identify, Locate and Involve Nonresident Fathers, Department of Health and Human Services, 2006 p. 162

  17. Feedback Tools Increase Involvement Like coaching, feedback is Thought Transmission More than Information Transmission . . . Feedback aims at asking questions & noticing behavior that enhances goal setting and goal striving. Which finger is pointing at the exact middle of the shape's height?

  18. The Smallest Moments

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