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Promoting Responsible Fatherhood (PRF) Public Service Announcements
Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Year 2 Report (PDF)
This report provides data for Year 2, October 1, 2007 – September 30, 2008. This report is comprised of information for participants who consented to participate in the evaluation of the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Project.
CFI Newsletter, Fall & Winter 2024 (PDF)
This issue highlights supports for fathers with intellectual disabilities and the efforts of longstanding CFI partner agency, the CT Department of Developmental Services.
Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Final Report 2013 (PDF)
This report provides data for five years of data collection (2006-2011). This report is comprised of information for participants who consented to participate in the evaluation component of the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Project.
Fathers have a significant and long‐lasting impact on the lives of their children. They are a powerful force in their children’s lives whether they are directly involved or absent from their children’s daily lives. Fathers’ influence on their children’s lives ranges from their children’s social, academic, and cultural development to their children’s physical, emotional and spiritual growth. While always significant, the impact an individual father has on his children’s lives and development can be positive or negative based on the choices he makes about how to interact with his child and coparent( s).
How Father and Family Friendly is CT (PDF)
In the fall of 2002, the National Practitioners Network for Fathers and Families contracted Lee Mizell Consulting to review the “father- and family-friendliness” of various public policies in the state of Connecticut. This report summarizes those findings.
Center for Research on Fathers, Children and Family Well-Being (PDF)
Thirteen years have passed since the last comprehensive review of the fatherhood field, Map and Track: State Initiatives to Encourage Responsible Fatherhood (Bernard & Knitzer, 1999). In the interim, two recessions, funding cuts, and tight fiscal conditions have made it extremely unlikely that states would fund fatherhood initiatives without federal subsidies. Given diminished opportunities to leverage public funds for responsible fatherhood, organized philanthropy has also reduced funding for responsible fatherhood.