NFLG MEMBER FATHERS INCORPORATED AWARDED GRANT TO MANAGE NATIONAL RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD CLEARINGHOUSE

October 4, 2011

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has awarded Fathers Incorporated $7.4 million (over a 3-year period; contingent on continued funding) to manage the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC).

The core of the clearinghouse contract will occur through social marketing and multi-media platforms, traditional communications and product development. In addition, the contract calls for the support of national federally sponsored events, conferences and other activities.

Turner v Rogers

  • On June 20, 2011, the United States Supreme Court announced that it vacated the March 29, 2010 child support related judgment issued by the South Carolina Supreme Court.

  • In Turner, the United States Supreme Court held that the due process clause of the 14th Amendment does not automatically require the provision of counsel to an indigent defendant facing the possibility of incarceration in a civil failure to pay child support contempt proceeding.  

  • Importantly, the ruling of the United States Supreme Court now requires States to provide alternative procedural safeguards when determining whether to incarcerate child support defendants found to be in civil contempt of court for failure to pay child support.

What do you think about the new family-centered alternative procedural safeguards?

  • Join our conversation and consider whether child support orders and enforcement remedies should take into account the financial circumstances of parents owing support before sending them to jail.

  • Consider the alternative procedural safeguards set forth in the January 2011 Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae Supporting Reversal: It was the State's failure to provide any meaningful mechanism for an alleged contemnor to establish his present ability to pay.You can find the alternative safeguards in the Amicus Curiae Brief starting at page 24.

  • Visit our Digital Library to review and download all relevant Turner v Rogers background materials. Use the Digital Library tab on the top menu and scroll to Turner v Rogers or click HERE

  • Post your comments and share your recommendations about the proper and efficient administration of the Title IV-D program through the lens of the June 20, 2011 Turner v Rogers Opinion of the Court. Use the Turner v Rogers tab on the top menu or click HERE.

     

NFLG seeks your comments on its recommendations on evaluating responsible fatherhood programs

Recently, NFLG submitted our recommendations on evaluating responsible fatherhood programs to the Obama Administration.

As the fatherhood field continues to evolve and we seek to have our work considered valid within the social sciences, it is important that the field contributes to the ongoing conversation about program evaluation, of which our recommendations are an example.

We must all build on the content of the recommendations and accompanying grid and we therefore welcome your comments and feedback.

To read the recommendations, click here
To provide comments/feedback, click here

 

President Obama welcomes NFLG Chair Joe Jones (2nd Right)
& others in Oval Office

President Obama announces the Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative,
a nationwide effort to support responsible fatherhood and to help reengage
absentee fathers in the lives of their children at a Father's Day event in Washington, DC. June 21, 2010.

On the eve of Father's Day
President Obama gives remarks at a White House Town Hall on the topic of fatherhood. June 19, 2009

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NFLG's Roland Warren, MBA, President of National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI)
leads scholars and advocates during U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
panel discussion about Ethnic Disparities and Family Structure.
 Video & Transcript

What's Next?
  • Our campaign continues:
    • Build sustainable communication bridges between service providers and policy makers;
    • Engage, mobilize and challenge local, regional and national networks of fatherhood and healthy families advocates to activate their stakeholders and partners in support of viable initiatives and policies;
    • Share reports, studies and policy initiatives of interest to fatherhood and health families advocates, and
    • Train practitioners to identify and use tools and techniques suitable for measuring outcomes.
  • Your participation continues:
    • Expand your multi-disciplinary network;
    • Conduct local forums with local policy makers and service providers;
    • Complete and submit the 2010 profile;
    • Help yourself to resources posted in the Digital Library, and
    • Take advantage of our training, networking and conferencing opportunities.