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What It Really Means to Be a Father
Posted by on June 13, 2012 at 12:41 PM EDTAfter pulling his child out of school because of bullying, Bob Johnson had had enough. He became an advocate for The Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network and since then his work has led to the Safe Schools Improvement Act and Student Non-discrimination Act legislation currently before lawmakers.
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Out of Every Experience, You Can Gain a Lesson
Posted by on June 13, 2012 at 12:26 PM EDTOver the last 30 years, Jerry Tello has dedicated his efforts to preventing and healing the pain of relationship/community violence, teen pregnancy, fatherless-ness and internalized oppression. In 1988, together with a group of other dedicated men, Jerry Tello developed the National Compadres Network, an organization dedicated to building and strengthening the positive involvement of Latino men in the lives of their children and families.
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Responsible Fatherhood Strengthens Families and Communities
Posted by on June 13, 2012 at 12:17 PM EDTJoseph Jones founded the Center for Urban Families to help strengthen urban communities by helping fathers and families achieve stability and economic success.
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Showing up for Kids
Posted by on June 13, 2012 at 11:53 AM EDTJohn Sowers was inspired to do something more for children without fathers, so he began The Mentoing Project's iniative to make sure that every young person in America that needed a mentor had one.
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Shaping the Kind of Fathers Children Need
Posted by on June 13, 2012 at 11:53 AM EDTThe National Fathering Initiative has helped turn the growing awareness of the importance of involved, responsible, and committed fatherhood into growing action to give men the skills they need to be the kinds of fathers their children need them to be.
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Helping Children Become Part of Something Greater
Posted by on June 13, 2012 at 11:42 AM EDTThere are 25 million children in America who don't live with their fathers, and a good number of those rarely or never see their dads. Just a quick look at the research will show you that fatherlessness comes with tragic, negative consequences for children and for our society. Casey Carey has made it his goal to make sure every child grows up with a father figure.
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The Power and Importance of a Father
Posted by on June 13, 2012 at 11:32 AM EDTFrom her mother, Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner learned that she was valued, loved, and could be anything she wanted to be even though they were very poor. Her incredible mother became everything important to her world except the one thing she could never be: the father she never had.
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Got Women?
Posted by on June 13, 2012 at 11:27 AM EDTWomen In Fatherhood, Inc. (WIFI) is a social justice organization working to break down structural and relational barriers preventing fathers and men from positively contributing to families and communities.Our goal is to engage more women and women’s groups around issues facing low-income men and fathers. To that end, Women In Fatherhood aims to serve as a bridge between policies, programs, and ideologies that have often appeared to be at odds.
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Let Your Heart Guide Your Service
Posted by on June 13, 2012 at 11:21 AM EDTAfter leaving her job as a chemical engineer, Michelle Foster jumped straight into her passion of empowering people. Now her organization, Kanawha Institute for Social Research and Action, employs over 70 people and works to empower thousands of West Virginians a year.
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Working with the Strength of Fathers to Build Stronger Kids
Posted by on June 13, 2012 at 11:07 AM EDTJ. Michael Hall leads the Strong Fathers - Strong Families iniative in hopes of letting men know what makes a father strong but we leaving it to them to realize where they have strengths and weaknesses. By focusing on what fathers do well and giving them the opportunity to do some of those things with their children, Strong Fathers - Strong Families moves men from dwelling on their deficits to living in their strengths.
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