Get Effective Ongoing Training and Technical Assistance
YOU WILL FINALLY SEE RESULTS FOR YOUR FATHER ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS
Strong Fathers-Strong Families, LLC GUARANTEES that if you join us for the year you will have several effective and successful events for your fathers and families. NO, you do not need to reinvent the wheel. NO you do not need to pour a ton of your budget into a blowout that is either not well attended or does not have even a minimal impact on the outcomes for the children in your organization. We will guide all participants on setting up, promoting, and effectively facilitating several father engagement events during the year of training.
ONGOING Training
Not just a one time staff training or a one-off conference. Learn throughout the year and address ongoing challenges.
BUILT FOR FAMILY ENGAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS
Staff will learn how to build effective Father AND Family Engagement activities and frameworks to better address the entire family
Proven and tested resources to use with your families
While learning more about working with fathers and families we will provide tested materials to provide your families monthly. Anything else we develop while working with PFCE professionals across the nation will also be accessible for your programs
Learn from our experience and expertise but also from professionals around the uS
Every month you will work with Strong Fathers AND other professionals from around the country. Get time tested programs and ideas as well as learning what is working for folks in programs just like yours in other areas of the country. Working as a cohort group you will be ina. community of dedicated professionals working to engage fathers and families for the sake of children. Share you expertise as well!
Get answers to your questions and overcome longstanding Barriers
Strong Fathers-Strong Families, LLC will not only train you on time tested methods and practices but we will also address the specific barriers that are challenges to your efforts and organization. The value of working together all year is to be able to address challenges as they arise and WHEN they arise. Your kids need engaged fathers and families NOW and cannot wait until the next training or conference.
MORE AFFORDABLE THAN ONE CONFERENCE OR TRAINING DAY
For cheaper than just the TRAVEL to a conference or training your staff can get a full year of training, support, and coaching.
In our most recent discussions with Head Start professionals, they have taken what they have learned from Strong Fathers-Strong Families, LLC back to their organizations but it has been difficult to get the ball rolling with all of the other duties that they have.
Strong Fathers-Strong Families has done staff trainings, pre-service training workshops, and even intermittent coaching. When programs use our materials and training IT WORKS! We are very confident of our programs and products but we are looking at new and better ways to help Head Start and Early Head Start professionals actually plan and provide ongoing father engagement efforts throughout the year. A large staff training can help but we want to make sure all of our Family Engagement professionals are getting the support that they need. Starting July 1 we will be offering three levels of annual training and technical assistance plans.
STARTER LEVEL
You may be new to Family Engagement and PFCE requirements and need information to help you start learning about effective father and family engagement. You may be VERY interested in building in more father engagement but your work load keeps you from being able to commit to a higher level of learning and implementation. We want to make sure you are still getting the help and the resources you need, even with your busy schedule.
Here is what you can expect at this level of membership:
Monthly Father Activity Handouts in English and Spanish-Provide them in print or online
Weekly training video-15 to 30 minutes of tips and tricks for working effectively with dads
Facebook Group-We will share daily and weekly insights, resources, and videos
We will use this forum to collect burning questions and give you answers (that are fire!)
Monthly training-1 Hour scheduled online training for interactive learning (with replays)
Certificates will be available for each video you complete
Quarterly one on one coaching calls-Your own 30 minute session to let me help you plan your father engagement efforts
Professional Level
You have been working with families, you have attended trainings and workshops, and you are ready to move the needle! You may even be tasked with making father engagement happen in your organization but feel like you are the only one pulling on the rope! This is for folks who are serious about making things happen and who are tired of not getting results for a work that they know is important for families.
We want to make sure we provide serious technical assistance to people who know what they are doing but may not have the experience they need to be more effective with fathers. We want to provide a double measure of experience and wisdom to your own to help you be successful and to be able to lead others in your organization.
Here is what you can expect at this level of membership:
ALL OF THE RESOURCES IN THE STARTER LEVEL
PLUS
Monthly Deep Dives- 2 hour trainings with J. Michael Hall, M.Ed. where we can share best practices and moderate group discussions with other like minded, driven professionals.
Field Reports-One on One interviews with successful family engagement professionals, authors, policy makers, and national leaders. Available as videos or podcasts for convenience.
Quarterly 1 hour personal coaching-Answer any questions and help overcome barriers.
First shot at pre-conference trainings and meet ups, in person trainings, and other conference discounts. (Join Strong Fathers at state, regional, and national conferences.)
TEAM LEVEL
You have a team of dedicated family engagement professionals who are ready to make a difference at the classroom, center, and organizational level. Each team will have access to all of the training and resources and it would not be on the shoulders of any one person to make all of these great things happen. Each team would be it’s own professional learning community with OTHER communities to learn together and learn from each other. We might even do some team competition! (Yes, it would involve t-shirts and medals or trophies-and coffee prizes)
Here is what you can expect at this level of membership:
ALL OF THE RESOURCES IN THE STARTER and PRO LEVELS
PLUS
TEAM GOAL SETTING SESSION-develop a plan for programs and professional learning
Monthly Team Trainings-You can get all of the resources from the other levels but this would be a meeting of your team dealing with the opportunities and barriers that are present in YOUR ORGANIZATION and COMMUNITY. There are so many things that work in all organizations or communities but we want to be even more effective where you are now.
ONLINE VIRTUAL DAD AND KID EVENTS- Strong Fathers will provide virtual Dad and Kid Reading Nights, Dad and Kid Math Nights, and Dad and Kid Science Nights. You can use these programs to allow us to work with your dads and kids in English and Spanish from a ZOOM meeting that you can attend at each of your centers with ZOOM capabilities.
(Supplies are additional but all promotional materials, checklists, and forms will be provided. If more dates are needed then more will be provided based on the number of teams at this level. Dates to be determined. Program may be live or replayed.)
DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR TEAMS OF MORE THAN 6