| Agency
Physical Environment |
Staff
Development Reflects Father Inclusiveness |
Agency
Supports For Working with Fathers |
Agency
Community Reputation for Father Friendliness |
Agency
Policies, Procedures, and Operations |
| Agency
décor will be reflective of father friendliness. |
Team
meetings and in-services will focus on entire family including fathers. |
Agency
will focus on the development of funding committed to services
specifically for father friendliness and fatherhood activities. |
Agency
will advocate for the participation of fathers in the activities of
communities, and family strengthening efforts. |
Agency
will participate in annual SFI Organizational Self Assessment and has a
documented plan to improve father friendliness. |
| Father
friendly reading materials will be available in waiting and common
activity areas. |
Staff
(male and female) will be trained to focus on Father Involvement,
gender driven parenting differences. |
Agency
will conduct and/or sponsor father friendliness questionnaires, focus
groups, and discussions as a community leader/advocate. |
Agency
will act as sponsor or partners in sponsoring father friendly
activities and events. |
If
families are encouraged to be engaged in quality improvement efforts of
the agency, this will include fathers. |
Media
resources, newsletters, brochures, flyers, announcements, will reflect
father friendliness of the agency
to the community it serves. |
Agency
will have male staff representation; professional and/or volunteer. |
Agency
will have a feedback process that specifically focuses on generating
input, suggestions, and comments from fathers. |
Organization
will provide direct outreach, media communications, and broad
newsworthy reporting on father friendliness. |
Father
focus will be identified within the mission/vision of the
organization. Documentation of father involvement activities
is generated. |
| The
welcome of fathers will be reflected in how staff interacts with
fathers in appropriate program services. |
Annual
performance evaluation will include reference to working with fathers
as part of valued review. |
Agency
will demonstrate a commitment to assisting staff identifying challenges
in providing strengths based outreach, service, or participation to
fathers. |
Agency
participation is sought for community development of father
friendliness and involvement activities. |
Agency
hours of operation will support the recruitment, engagement, and
involvement of fathers in services aimed at family
support and strengthening. |
| Submit
suggestion for father friendly physical environment. |
Submit
suggestion for agency staff development activities, training, and
communication focused on father friendliness. |
Submit
suggestion on how agencies may strengthen father friendliness in
operations and culture; for family service, support, and strengthening. |
Submit
suggestion for enhancing agency father friendliness to the community at
large as well as current families
served. |
Submit
suggestion for strengthening the overall agency functioning, related to
father friendliness as a critical element of service. |
