RuralFathers.com - Father/Male Involvement Meetings

Father/Male Involvement Meetings will help father/father figures in your program learn about topics that will enhance their self-esteem, overall mental and physical well-being, as well as improve their parenting skills.

RuralFathers.com members can download and easily facilitate activities and meetings designed to help build a father's self-esteem, increase parenting skills, and understand and teach their children through father- and child-friendly activities.

Facilitators will be provided with tips and strategies to work with fathers and facilitate the meetings to ensure fathers have a productive discussion.

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Male Involvement Meetings

Giving Back
Posted 6/6/07
Self–Esteem – The facilitator's objective during this father/male involvement meeting is to build camaraderie within the fatherhood group by orchestrating a local/community project with fathers in your program.
Building A Child's Foundation
Posted 1/5/07
Men possess many strong attributes and qualities that lay the foundation upon which they raise their children. Fathers need to be reminded and made to feel their individual qualities and attributes are good and influential in shaping and raising their children. This group activity will help fathers explore attributes they possess that serve to shape their child's foundation.
Fatherhood Prioritized
Posted 10/2/06
Through this exercise facilitators will help fathers look at how they spend a typical day and identify potential obstacles that may prevent them from spending more time with their children and family.
Superhero
Posted 6/22/06
The goal of this exercise is to help fathers realize and confirm that they are larger than life superheroes in the eyes of their young children.
Mothers and Fathers
Posted 3/23/06
Mothers and fathers each play a great role in raising children. This discussion will give fathers in attendance the opportunity to discuss the differences and similarities amongst peers.
Letter From My Child
Posted 11/28/05
Fathers will have the opportunity to reflect about the relationship they have with their child using this unique exercise.
Self Reflection
Posted 11/21/05
Men need to be encouraged about their parenting style, and be reassured that they are the experts of their children. This discussion will reaffirm their strengths in parenting.
Agent Dad (Part Two) – Program Direction
Posted 7/14/05
This meeting activity will provide the fathers in your program an opportunity to express their ideas to help guide the learning, child development and activities in their child's program.