Healthy Start Regional Meeting (IL)

Meeting Materials:

  • Local Healthy Start Evaluation: Measuring Impact | Slides
  • Collective Impact | Recommended Reading
  • Sustaining Fatherhood Involvement Panel: Fathers as Assets to their Children, Families, and Communities | Slides
  • High Alignment/High Action | Handout
  • Action Aligned Commitments | Handout
  • The State of Infant Health in Illinois: Identifying Opportunities and Monitoring Change | Slides
  • Becoming Trauma Informed: Applying the Research to Our Work | Slides
  • Turn the Curve | Diagram and Questions
  • Person Role System Framework | Briefing Notes

Backbone Organization Case Management/Care Coordination Common Agenda Father/Partner Involvement Program evaluation

Hear From Your Peers: Fatherhood Programs: Assessing Readiness & Sustainability

Part one in a series of fatherhood webinars, this webinar will highlight the value of father inclusion and provide an overview of agency and program readiness to implement a sustainable fatherhood program or initiative.
The Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services (DHSPS) will open with a description of the importance of father inclusion, expected outcomes, and Healthy Start funding implications.
Participants will then hear from three Healthy Start grantees, New Haven Healthy Start in New Haven, Connecticut; Magnolia Project in Jacksonville, Florida; and Strong Beginnings in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who will share their experiences and lessons learned during the assessment and implementation phases of their fatherhood programs.
Webinar Materials:

Father/Partner Involvement

Partners for a Healthy Baby

Nationally recognized, research-based, practice-informed curriculum used by many home visiting models to meet their program goals including improving birth outcomes, reducing rates of child abuse, strengthening families, enhancing child health and developmental outcomes, and promoting family stability and economic self-sufficiency. The curriculum addresses issues of child health and development within the context of the multifaceted needs of expectant and parenting families. Five-volume book series for different stages in pregnancy/parenthood, accompanied by a set of handouts for the home visitor to use when planning visits. Handouts for families can be purchased in English or Spanish and help the home visitor introduce subjects that may otherwise be difficult to talk about.

Father/Partner Involvement Home Visiting Parenting Education

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