Training
FII-ON is offering training in a number of communities. Here is a list of where we will be:
Mar 5 - Toronto District Catholic School Board Parent and Family Literacy Centres
Mar 8 - Hastings County - Bellevile, ON - father involvement and community action plan for reaching fathers in the area. Contact Elizabeth Michael at EMichael@hpechu.on.ca.
Mar 25 - Child Care Algoma - Sault Ste. Marie, ON - focusing on working with young fathers. Contact Lisa Fleming at oeycssmoutreach@childcarealgoma.ca.
Apr 9 - 30 - Father Involvement training, York Region. This 4 week program focuses on multicultural fathering, fathers and play, fathers and literacy, and supporting families in a new land. Contact Brian Russell at fii-on.chair@cfii.ca.
May 5 - London, ON - It's a Dad's Life: Understanding and Engaging Dads in our Prenatal Education Programs. Contact Jill Sloan at jsloan@pdhu.on.ca.
If you are in any of these areas and would like to participate, please follow up for more information.
If you are interested in having training in your community, please contact Brian Russell at fii-on.chair@cfii.ca.
- Do you have fathers showing up at your programs, activities, or services and are not sure what to do or what to offer?
- Are you interested in learning more about the Canadian father resources that currently exist?
- Do you wish to learn how to work with fathers as well as market and outreach fathers more effectively?
- Are you interested in hearing more about the current research literature that supports father involvement and how you and your organization can make quick and easy changes to be more father friendly?
- Do you want to know how your program, organization, and community can become more supportive of father involvement?
If you answered 'YES' to any of the above questions, then a Father Involvement Training or Workshop is something that you, your organization, and your community should check out!
The Father Involvement Initiative-Ontario Network carries out the following training and workshops in both full day and ½ day agendas:
- Father Involvement Sensitization Training: An exploration of the importance of father involvement vis-a-vis healthy child development. A look at recent societal trends, the Families of Today, the role of the father today, the father involvement research, and a look at program effective practices that you and your organization can use to build father capacity.
- How to become a more father friendly organization & build employee and organizational father capacity: An examination of current organization policy and practice with an aim to increase your father capacity: Each participant will fill out an assessment of “How We Involve Fathers within our own Organizations” and explore the following factors to become more father friendly and to increase the organizational capacity to work with men and fathers: Challenges to getting fathers/men involved, Men’s Health Needs, Marketing to Men: What is different?, Father Involvement Research, Program Effective Practices, and a look at the My Daddy Matters Because Father Toolkit.
- Resources: An examination of the current Canadian father resources as well as copies of the most recent father resources and tools: An examination of booklets, posters, and other important tools that organizations can use to immediately become more father friendly.
- How to become a champion for father involvement within your own community: The day will focus on the development of a community resource inventory which will map existing community father activities, services, resources, and programs, a look at levels of change, as well as plans for change, and lastly the development of a Community Action Plan that will look at the next steps that you and your organization and your community can take to become more father friendly.
Do you, your organization, or your community wish to learn more:
HOW: Contact FII-ON for further information
THE COST: A one day training is $1000* which will include facilitation time, travel and accommodations, small group and large group activities, father resources for workshop participants, and a concrete community action plan for father involvement.
OTHER COSTS: Promotion, meals, venue.
WHY: The one day workshop will help build the following capacities:
- The individual employees' capacity to better serve fathers
- The organization's capacity to better serve fathers
- The entire communities' capacity to better serve fathers
- Knowledge of Canadian father activities, services, resources, and programs
- Why father involvement is important
- How to be a leader for father involvement in your community
Another Training offered by FII-ON:
The FI-BOCC Program ©
WHAT IS IT?: The FI-BOCC Program © is a 16 hour program created for community agencies and independent facilitators whose emphasis is dedicated to positive life outcomes through the quality of the father-child relationship, and through understanding the significance of ‘father involvement’ as a protective condition for healthy child development.
HOW: For more information about The FI-BOCC Program©: Contact FII-ON: fii-on.fi-boccprogram@cfii.ca, or call 613-257-2779 ex.100
To participate in a facilitator training event costs $199, which includes all the materials needed to facilitate the FI-BOCC program.
HOSTING A TRAINING EVENT: To host a two-day training is $2000 plus programming expenses, which will include 2 facilitators. This highly participatory training outlines the 6 tools of the FI-BOCC program. Participants will experience the FI-BOCC program through teaching, role-playing, and active discussions. The trainers reserve the right to determine appropriate participation numbers. For more information, please go to http://www.thefiboccprogram.ca.
OTHER COSTS: The communities will need to cover travel and accommodation costs for 2 facilitators.
WHY: The FI-BOCC Program © curriculum is generated from general research encompassing ‘father involvement’, as well as the material from The Virtues Project™. The curriculum consists of six tools:
TOOL 1 – CHARACTER: THE ROOT OF SUCCESS
TOOL 2 – AUTHORITY IN THE SERVICE OF LEARNING
TOOL 3 – BUILDING SELF-ESTEEM
TOOL 4 – DEEP & MEANINGFUL COMMUNICATION
TOOL 5 – THE H.E.A.R.T. OF BOUNDARIES
TOOL 6 – BUILDING CHARACTER THROUGH DISCIPLINE
So if this is something that is of interest to you as an employee, an organization, or an entire community, please contact FII-ON
Also available as part of a training is the:
The Father Involvement-Public Education Package (FI-PEd)
The Father Involvement-Public Education Package (FI-PEd) has been compiled by the Father Involvement Initiative-Ontario Network (FII-ON) to help educate and change various audiences attitudes, values and beliefs about father involvement.
The package contains the following components:
- A Teaser: To help gain interest from the reader of the document
- A Canadian Father Overview of the Father Involvement Landscape in Canada
- A Summary of the Father Involvement Research linked to healthy child outcomes
- Father's Contributions to Child Well-being: Dr. Jessica Ball and Ken Moselle
- An Inventory of Policies in Canada relating to father involvement
- A Practitioner's Course of Action: What Grassroots organizations can do to obtain better support for father involvement
This package can be sent to various key community stakeholders to help promote the important role that fathers play in the lives of children.
The FI-PEd package can be sent to other community service providers, to businesses, to various levels of government policy and decision makers, to media outlets, to schools, to hospitals, to Local Health Units, etc.
Please feel free to download a copy for reference and let FII-ON know if you are interested in ordering an entire package.
Please note that this tool can be used with a variety of different audiences and in a variety of different communities.
