National Fatherhood Forum

NEWS

Thank you to all who
attended for making the conference a success!

Planning Committee:

Natasha Cabrera
Jaqueline D. Shannon
Hi Fitzgerald
Stephanie Jolley
Helen Raikes
Catherine Tamis-LeMonda
Cheri Vogel
Robert Bradley

For additional information, please contact:

Stephanie Jolley
Department of Human Development
3304 Benjamin Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
sjolley@umd.edu
(301) 405-7486
Center for Family
Involvement

Our goal for the National Fatherhood Forum is to build on the first conference that was held at New York University in 1999, at which we discussed research strategies and theoretical frameworks for the study of low-income fathers.
Our efforts found support in the Ford Foundation, the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families, and several other federal agencies. It also resulted in the recruitment of nearly 800 fathers, with a significant number of them continuing to stay involved in this prospective study to date.
The National Forum to be held this coming June is designed to take stock of what has been learned about fathers in the past 6 years and highlight key themes for future research. We wish to look anew at how fathers are conceptualized with respect to their involvement with their children and families, how they are studied, how data are analyzed, and how research findings are translated for practice and policy. Conference participants will include approximately 45 prominent researchers and other interested parties in the field of fatherhood invited by the fathers working group of the Early Head Start Consortium.
There will be two types of products resulting from the Forum. One product will be a book to be published by Praeger Press, under the series editorship of Hiram Fitzgerald and Susanne Denham. The second product will consist of more scientific papers representing the work completed within each of the four Forum content areas. Our hope is that these products will summarize the current status and future directions for research on fathers and families to both an educated lay public (the book), and to the interdisciplinary scientific community (the journal articles).
Participants