• Skip to main content

National Training & Technical Assistance Center

  • NTTAC Team
    • Meet the Team
    • Partners
    • Transformation Teams
  • Events
  • Trainings and TA
    • Trainings and TA
    • System of Care Summit 2023
    • System of Care Summit 2022
    • Trauma and Resiliency Action-Informed Learning Series (TRAILS)
  • Resources
    • Fatherhood & Father Figures Curriculum
    • Resource Directory
    • BLOG: System of Care Stories
    • 5 Things Digest
  • Grantee Corner
    • System of Care
    • Healthy Transitions
    • Project AWARE
  • Contact Us
    • Request Training or Consultation
    • Newsletter Sign-up

RESOURCES

#CelebrateFatherFigures

FATHERHOOD HOME      |      MODULE 1      |      MODULE 2      |      MODULE 3      |      MODULE 4      |      RESOURCES


MODULE 1 RESOURCES: WHY FATHERS MATTER

1.1 | What is a Father Figure?

  • The changing role of the modern day father – APA
  • 12.5F: The Absent Father and Serial Fatherhood – Social Sci LibreTexts
  • What Is Fatherhood? 11 Great Dads Outline What Fatherhood Means To Them – The Daily Dad
  • Tracing The Expanding Definition Of Fatherhood – NPR
  • Defined Fatherhood Lately?
  • LGBTQ+ Dads Ice Seguerra, Paolo Maranan On The Beauty Of Fatherhood

1.3 | The Perinatal Period

  •  Journey Into Fatherhood Video
  • Preparing for Fatherhood – National Center for Fathering
  • Advice for New (or Soon-To-Be) Dads! – National Center for Fathering
  • Get Ready to Be a Dad with a Fathers Assembly
  • A Poem for Harrison, My Unborn Son – National Center for Fathering
  • How Fatherhood Can Change You – National Center for Fathering
  • Father-Inclusive Perinatal Parent Education Programs: A Systematic Review
  • International Journal of Birth & Parent Education
  • Promoting Fathers’ Mental Health During Children’s Early Childhood
  • The Perinatal Dad – Engaging Fathers in the Perinatal Period to Support Breastfeeding: The Fatherhood Institute
  • Anxiety in fathers in the perinatal period: A systematic review
  • Assessing the Mental Health of Fathers, Other Co-parents, and Partners in the Perinatal Period: Mixed Methods Evidence Synthesis
  • Most Ordinary Men: The Importance of Fathers During the Perinatal Period | WA Interagency Fatherhood Council
  • The Experiences of First-Time Fathers in Perinatal Services: Present but Invisible – PMC
  • JJ Parker: Why men’s perinatal care matters: Healthy fathers create healthy families – Chicago Tribune
  • Paternal perinatal depression: It’s time we brought fathers into the perinatal agenda — Inspire the Mind
  • Birth of a Father: Fathering in the First 1,000 Days – Bakermans‐Kranenburg – 2019 – Child Development Perspectives – Wiley Online Library

1.4 | Fathers within Family Systems

  •  Applying Whole Family Approaches in Responsible Fatherhood Programs
  • Fathers Are Parents, Too! Widening the Lens on Parenting for Children’s Development
  • Coparenting and Healthy Relationship and Marriage Education for Dads (CHaRMED)
  • Family Systems Theory, Attachment Theory, and Culture* – Rothbaum – 2002 – Family Process – Wiley Online Library
  • Attachment Theory and Fathers: Moving From “Being There” to “Being With” – Palm – 2014

1.5 | Fathers within Systems of Care

  • Learning from an Early Childhood Nonprofit that Serves Fathers (Podcast)
  • Video: A Conversation about Engaging Young Fathers in Human Services
  • Video: A Conversation about Engaging Fathers in Home Visiting Programs
  • Approaches for Engaging Fathers in Child Support Programs
  • Keep Fathers Engaged Report

1.6 | Emotional Needs & Co-Regulation

  • Mental Health of Dads
  • Nurturing dads raise emotionally intelligent kids – helping make society more respectful and equitable
  • It’s Time to Support Fathers’ Mental Health — Seleni
  • The importance of new fathers’ mental health | Mark Williams | TEDxNantymoel
  • We Need To Talk About Dad’s Mental Health | Psychology Today
  • Father Attachment, Father Emotion Expression and Children’s Attachment to Fathers: The Role of Marital Conflict – PMC
  • Mental Health and the New Father

1.8 | The Beauty of Fatherhood

  • Fatherhood Can Change the World | Ned Schaut | TEDxRoseville
  • What I’ve learned being a stay at home dad | Glen Henry | TEDxMidAtlantic
  • And so I decided to become the world’s best dad | Hermann Jónsson | TEDxReykj…
  • Joel Leon: The beautiful, hard work of co-parenting | TED
  • TEDxToronto — Brandon Hay — Redefining Fatherhood

1.9 | COVID 19 & Fatherhood

  • Fathering in a Pandemic
  • Survey Results: Dads & Pandemic Challenges – National Center for Fathering
  • 3 Ways Dads Have Grown: More Pandemic Survey Results – National Center for Fathering
  • How the Pandemic is Strengthening Fathers’ Relationships with Their Children — Making Caring Common
  • How Fatherhood Programs Supported Dads During the Pandemic
  • For many dads, the COVID pandemic brought new perspectives on fatherhood
  • Fatherhood During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Father Engagement Lessons During COVID-19

Copyright © 2023 • NTTAC Mental Health

X