Alameda County Fathers Corps
What is the Fathers Corps?
In 2013, the Alameda County Fathers Corps (ACFC) , a collaborative effort between First 5 Alameda County and Alameda County’s Health Care Services Agency and Social Services Agency, was formed to support fathers to be meaningfully engaged with their children and to advocate for father-friendly services. Our fatherhood work has steadily expanded over the past six years to include a broad approach focused on empowering and supporting:
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Fathers – by promoting father-friendly and father-specific programming for families in under-resourced, economically vulnerable neighborhoods and partnering with others to fund and enhance programming; by raising up the voices of fathers through listening sessions, interviews, speaker panels, etc.; and by convening fathers at our county-wide Fatherhood Summit to celebrate and honor the critical role fathers play in their families and communities
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Service providers – by offering learning communities and trainings to enhance provider capacity to engage fathers; by providing safe spaces for learning, peer support, and networking for male providers; and by surveying providers to identify gaps in supports for fathers
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Agencies - by offering trainings and tools to assist agencies and programs with implementing Father Friendly Principles (FFP)
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Systems – by convening system leaders through an interagency workgroup that seeks to change policies that create barriers to fathers fully engaging with their children
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The wider community - by creating a positive narrative around fatherhood so fathers are seen as nurturers and an essential part of the fabric of family and community
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Father Friendly Provider Network
Fatherhood Partnership
Dad-scussions
Fatherhood Photo Bank
2022-2023 Fathers Corps Trainings
September 2022
Father Friendly Provider Network: Structural Racism and its Impact on Families
Presenter: Arnold Chandler
This session will offer a concrete introduction to the meaning of "structural racism". It will provide a historical overview of how ghettos were constructed and how the foundations of contemporary spatial exclusion from opportunity were created. Next it will present a framework that summarizes how structural racism operates to marginalize families across generations.
Resources
2021-2022 Fathers Corps Trainings
2020-2021 Fathers Corps Trainings
2019-2020 Fathers Corps Trainings
Alameda County Fathers Corps Father Friendly Principles
Father-Friendliness Organization Self-Assessment
Father-Friendly Principles Implementation Tool
Voices of Fathers and the Providers who Serve Them
Fathers Corps Videos
The Fatherhood Summit 2019
2019 Fatherhood Summit Highlight
2019 Fatherhood Summit Welcome Video
2018-19 Fatherhood Partnership
Celebrating 5 Years of the Alameda County Fathers Corps Report
Alameda County Fathers Corps 5-Year (Full Video)
Fatherhood Partnership Program Overview and Requirements
For more information about the Fathers Corps contact Kevin Bremond.
Father-Friendliness Organization Self-Assessment
Father-Friendliness Organization Self-Assessment