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Hosts annual event on the national Take Your Child to School Day. Offers a community program for fathers to walk their children to their school.
Health awareness and prevention. Provide educational workshops, fatherhood training, employment training, and health screenings.

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Community Wellness Programs
Mentoring Programs
Advocacy
Fathers
Offers free fatherhood classes and supportive services, in collaboration with the Summit County Fatherhood Initiative. Session topics include: - Become The Best Dad You Can Be. - Importance of Fathers. - Guest Speaker Lisa Dolan, Child Support Enforcement Agency: Visitation, Custody, Rights, Possible Driver's License Reinstatement. - Job Search. - Thinking Two Years Forward. - Guest Speaker Tony Agnesi, Best Selling Author, Radio Host, Motivational Speaker. - How Will You Be Remembered - Improving Relationships. - Controlling Your Emotions.
Offers services in the areas of education advocacy, the promotion of economic empowerment, voter education, reentry. Registration and support for/to “get out the vote” and anti-discrimination advocacy. These services are offered in partnership with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Partners with clients to file complaints with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in the United States Department of Education.

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Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
Ex-Offender Reentry Programs
Cultural/Racial Issues
Older Adults
Civil Rights Issues
Education Advocacy Groups
Advocacy
Fathers
Provides in home screening for post-partum depression to new fathers. Visits take approximately one hour (two visits in all). If a mental health issue is indicated, the father will be referred to appropriate care and agency will provide short term follow up to check on their progress.
Advocates within the community to enforce laws and other social measures that protect and promote the rights and interests of fathers. Has a partnership with other Summit County Fatherhood Initiative providers.

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Fathers
Men's Advocacy Groups
Offers a 12-week program that provides group and individual education focused on responsible parenting, healthy relationships, and economic stability for fathers and father-figures. Child-care and transportation assistance may be available to participants.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Fathers
Provides supplemental food vouchers, nutrition education, counseling, support and referral services to eligible women, children, fathers, and kinship caregivers. Nursing mothers are provided with information and education on breastfeeding. Also offers speakers who discuss the program and the value of good nutrition and breastfeeding.

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Kinship Caregivers
Pregnant Individuals
Families
Fathers
Food Vouchers
WIC
Speakers/Speakers Bureaus
Nutrition Education
Nutrition Issues
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Provides case management and advocacy for fathers to ensure that their specific needs are being communicated and met. Develops and assists in implementing an individualized case plan with each father. Works closely with community service organizations throughout the area to connect fathers with the social services that can best assist them. Provides referrals for fathers with court issues related to child custody and record expungement.

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Criminal Record Expungement Assistance
Fathers
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Case/Care Management
Maintains information about community resources that are appropriate for fathers. Provides information and referrals to community agencies and organizations that offer specialized services related to fathers.
Provides educational opportunities for fathers who want to understand their rights and obligations with respect to child custody, child support, visitation arrangements and other laws which address the upbringing and care of children. Actively assists with the paper work necessary to get the process started. Help fathers with license reinstatement, indigency forms, child support issues, putative registration that will allow a birth father to receive written notice of a proposed placement. Attends meetings with court administrators and officials to determine the best practices in place that serve dads.

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Parent Rights Classes
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Fathers
- Provides clinical consultations, screenings and coaching sessions to new fathers who need mental health and parenting support during the first 12 months of parenthood. - Complete 2-5 Fathers Feelings sessions in person or virtually and receive a $25.00 gift card after their second session. - Complete all 5 sessions, and TANF eligible dads receive an additional $400.00 of baby items sent directly to their home.
Offers an 6-week training program for fathers on topics such as parenting skills, job skills and criminal record expungement. Training materials include "Troy's Story", "24/7 Dads", and "On My Shoulders". Topics each week include: - Week 1: "Promoting Punctuality & Responsibility (Setting Goals)". - Week 2: "Effective Communication Love & Relationships". - Week 3: "The Role of the Father (Put First Things First)". - Week 4: "How to Apply for a Job". - Week 5: "Handling and Expressing Emotion (Listen First, Talk Second)". - Week 6: "Father's Dealing with Infant Mortality and Dealing with Pains from the Past".

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Legal Information Services
Men's Advocacy Groups
Parenting Skills Classes
New Dad Parenting Programs
Prejob Guidance
Fathers
Teaches skills that enable fathers to deal constructively and consistently with a broad spectrum of child rearing problems. Provides an opportunity to discuss parenting issues. Assists fathers with child support, modifications, visitation rights, shared parenting, communication skills and driver's license reinstatement.

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Driver License Retention/Reinstatement Assistance
Fathers
Parenting Skills Classes
New Dad Parenting Programs
Provides supplemental food vouchers, nutrition education, counseling, support and referral services to eligible women, children, fathers, and kinship caregivers. Nursing mothers are provided with information and education on breastfeeding. Also offers speakers who discuss the program and the value of good nutrition and breastfeeding. During the summer, also provides a supplemental voucher to each client for fruits and vegetables from selected local growers (Farmers' Market Nutrition Program) - these are available while supplies last. Also offers child car safety seats at a reduced price to those who are eligible for this program. Also offers speakers who discuss the program and the value of good nutrition and breastfeeding.

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Fathers
Child Passenger Safety Seats
WIC
Pregnant Individuals
Food Vouchers
Kinship Caregivers
Nutrition Education
Families
Speakers/Speakers Bureaus
Nutrition Issues
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Teaches skills that enable fathers to deal constructively and consistently with a broad spectrum of child rearing problems. Provides educational classes for new dads, called Daddy Boot Camp.

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Fathers
New Dad Parenting Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Provides supplemental food vouchers, nutrition education, counseling, support and referral services to eligible women, children, fathers, and kinship caregivers. Nursing mothers are provided with information and education on breastfeeding. Also offers speakers who discuss the program and the value of good nutrition and breastfeeding. During the summer, also provides a supplemental voucher to each client for fruits and vegetables from selected local growers (Farmers' Market Nutrition Program) - these are available while supplies last. Also offers child car safety seats at a reduced price to those who are eligible for this program. Also offers speakers who discuss the program and the value of good nutrition and breastfeeding.

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Fathers
Child Passenger Safety Seats
WIC
Pregnant Individuals
Food Vouchers
Kinship Caregivers
Nutrition Education
Families
Speakers/Speakers Bureaus
Nutrition Issues
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Health awareness and prevention. Provide educational workshops, fatherhood training, employment training, and health screenings.

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Community Wellness Programs
Mentoring Programs
Advocacy
Fathers
Advocates within the community to enforce laws and other social measures that protect and promote the rights and interests of fathers. Partnership with other Summit County Fatherhood Initiative providers.
Provides supplemental food vouchers ("nutrition cards," similar to EBT or debit cards), nutrition education, counseling, support and referral services to eligible women, children, fathers, and kinship caregivers. Nursing mothers are provided with information and education on breastfeeding. Also offers speakers who discuss the program and the value of good nutrition and breastfeeding. During the summer also provides a supplemental voucher to each client for fruits and vegetables from selected local growers (Farmers' Market Nutrition Program). These are available while supplies last.

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Nutrition Education
Health Issues
Speakers/Speakers Bureaus
Food Vouchers
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Families
Fathers
Kinship Caregivers
WIC
Pregnant Individuals
Provides a program that is taught by dads for dads. The 12-hour curriculum focuses on topics that include the important role that fathers play in their child's life, establishing parental bonds, positive discipline, working with mom and co-parenting. Light meal and refreshments provided. Families who complete the 6 sessions will receive a 1-year membership to the ECRC's Inspiration Station and a $10 gift card.

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Child Development Classes
Fathers
Parenting Skills Classes
Provides job readiness skills development for fathers including guidance in preparing a resume, writing job application letters, completing job application questionnaires, responding to job ads, and taking employment tests. Offer tips regarding job search techniques, interview techniques, appropriate dress, personal appearance and interview techniques and other similar topics.
Offers daily workforce development workshops. Includes topics on conflict management, conflict resolution, resume creation, and so forth.

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Prejob Guidance
Fathers
Job Training Formats
Career Awareness
Job Finding Assistance
Young Adults
Pregnant Individuals
Offers a 10- week curriculum focused on life-changing strategies that specifically engage men to be more responsible and nurturing fathers. This is done by offering interactive circles of support designed to build parenting skills, with education on why and how they can make an indelible positive impact on their children. This initiative also assists fathers by providing direct assistance with child support challenges, the establishment of custody and/or visitation and driver’s license reinstatement.
Offers support, encouragement and reentry tips to fathers currently incarcerated to prepare them for re-entry into the community and home with a focus on repairing and/or strengthening their relationships with their children.