The Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN) is seeking fatherhood programs to participate in a new research project that aims to improve parenting and co-parenting. These programs should:
- Work with mostly nonresidential, low-income fathers in a non-institutional setting; and
- Use a manualized fatherhood curriculum, serve at least 125-150 fathers per year and have regular program cohorts of 10-15 fathers.
What participation entails:
- Nonresidential fathers who enroll in a fatherhood program will be asked to provide contact information for mothers of their children with whom they would like to improve their co-parenting relationship.
- Project staff will contact mothers and invite them to participate in Understanding Dads, a six-session group program for mothers.
- Interested mothers will participate in an interactive, co-parenting program.
- Fathers and mothers who participate in the project will complete three separate surveys administered at baseline, at the conclusion of the intervention and six months later.
- Participating programs will be reimbursed for new programming costs associated with the co-parenting intervention, data collection activities and participant incentives.
What questions will the study answer?
- What are the best approaches for involving mothers in a co-parenting intervention?
- What are the characteristics of mothers and fathers who agree or do not agree to participate in the co-parenting intervention?
- To what extent does the co-parenting intervention influence mothers’ and fathers’ perceptions of their co-parenting relationships?
To learn more about this project or to participate, please contact FRPN Senior Research Coordinator, Rebecca Kaufman, at rebecca.kaufman@temple.edu.
|