Topic: Communication, Parenting, Relationships
Target Population: Parents
Sector: Community-Based
Military Sector: All Branches
This program is delivered to fathers and is intended to impact fathers and their families.
The Nurturing Father's Program is a community-based program that is designed to help participants create safe and healthy families through the use of positive discipline strategies and effective commumnication, conflict resolution, and problem solving skills.
No peer-reviewed publications evaluating the effectiveness of this program were located.
The Nurturing Father's Program curriculum is based on the Nurturing Parenting Programs, several of which have been placed on our Continuum*. The Nurturing Father's Program intends to promote attitudes and skills that can help participants develop a nurturing parenting style. Lessons focus on the following topics:
The program is delivered through a combination of lectures, audio recordings, activities, and workbook exercises. Curriculum materials are available in English and Spanish.
* Four separate Fact Sheets are available for the Nurturing Parenting Program.
The Nurturing Father's Program has been implemented throughout the United States in a variety of settings including schools, Head Start, churches, prisons, halfway houses, parenting and counseling centers, and the Military.
Facilitator training is not required; however, several options are available. Please visit https://nurturingfathers.com/training/ or use details in the Contact section to learn more.
Considerations for implementing this program include recruiting facilitators, acquiring buy-in from fathers, finding time to implement the curriculum, and providing childcare if needed.
The Clearinghouse can help address these considerations. Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
If you are interested in implementing the Nurturing Father's Program, the Clearinghouse is interested in helping you!
Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
The curriculum is implemented in 13 weekly sessions that last approximately 2 1/2 hours each.
The complete Nurturing Father's Program, including all materials for 20 participants, costs $650. Additional materials can be purchased by visiting http://nurturingfathers.com/docs/NF-order-form-2014.pdf.
To move the Nurturing Father's Program to the Promising category on the Clearinghouse Continuum of Evidence, at least one evaluation should be performed demonstrating positive effects lasting at least one year from the beginning of the program or at least six months from program completion.
The Clearinghouse can help you develop an evaluation plan to ensure the program components are meeting your goals. Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
Contact the Clearinghouse with any questions regarding this program.
Phone: 1-877-382-9185 Email: Clearinghouse@psu.edu
You may also contact the Center for Growth & Development, Inc., by mail 2015 S. Tuttle Ave #D, Sarasota, FL 34239, phone 1-888-390-1119, fax 1-941-953-9552, email nurturingfathers@gmail.com, or visit https://nurturingfathers.com/contact-us/
