RuralFathers.com - Staff Training Sessions

Ensuring staff are equipped with the proper tools to work with fathers is an essential part of any early childhood program. Professionals utilizing RuralFathers.com Staff Training will be prepared and motivated to provide men and fathers an environment to educate children.

This material is designed to help agencies overcome potential pitfalls that staff and agencies working with rural fathers and families may face. Staff administering the training will possess information, strategies, and knowledge to successfully complete and help begin a transformation in the way staff work with fathers and families.

Staff Trainings

A Father's Story – Part Two Staff Discussion
Posted 9/28/07
During the second part of A Father's Story, the facilitator will conduct a discussion with staff to discuss the stories and brainstorm ideas that would better serve fathers and their children.
A Father's Story – Part One Dad's Panel
Posted 9/28/07
No one can talk about experiences or share the true feelings of being a father better than fathers in your program. This two–part staff training will be very effective in changing the hearts and minds of staff who are sitting on the fence or who haven’t embraced the important work that is being done for children through the fatherhood program.
Strategies to win moms over
Posted 4/6/07
Fatherhood programs often encounter resistance from mothers or female staff and resentment towards the program. This ongoing training will provide facilitators with strategies to implement within their program that ensure buy–in among mothers and female staff for fatherhood programs.
My Father Gave Me
Posted 12/13/06
A father's influence is so powerful that even staff aren't immune to the role their own dad played in their upbringing. Sometimes that influence can have a negative affect on staff's delivery of services to families. This training exercise will help staff celebrate the things they're thankful their fathers gave them and identify the things they wish their father's had given them.
Propaganda Wednesday
Posted 8/11/06
This ongoing staff training is designed to stimulate thought and promote discussion between coworkers and individuals who work with fathers and families.
Important Fathers
Posted 5/5/06
This exercise will help staff create a dialogue about important fathers within their lives and provide them the opportunity to discuss the positive contributions they have made in a child's development and life.
Perceptions
Posted 2/13/06
Sometimes staff form an opinion about fathers before they meet them. This often happens because of negative comments made by co–workers. These dangerous and potentially detrimental preconceived notions can create a negative culture toward men and fathers in the entire agency or program.
Fatherhood Integration
Posted 11/3/05
Ensuring a full integration of your fatherhood program requires staff to examine existing systems to discover if they're effective and involve fathers when appropriate. This exercise will take staff through a process to examine the effectiveness of including fathers within existing systems.
Agent Dad (Part One) – Checklist
Posted 7/15/05
This training exercise will help you achieve a true representation of how staff interact and welcome men into your building and include them in programming.
Agent Dad (Part Three) – Implementation
Posted 7/14/05
This exercise will encourage staff to review the results from the Agent Dad (Part One) – Checklist and from the Agent Dad (Part Two) – Program Direction.