FTF is communicating with the office of the Florida Surgeon General, Dr. Scott Rivkees about funding for future, expectant and new fathers’ health care as it affects birth outcomes. The Governor has provided 9 million dollars to the Health Department to focus on minority health and health equity affecting health care, infant mortality being one of them.
FTF is partnering with the Jasmine Project, a federal healthy start program in collaboration with the UM Miller School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics and Healthy Start Coalition of Miami-Dade to reduce racial disparities affecting Black infant mortality and improve maternal child health. The FTF partnership focuses on gender equity and fathers’ health (paternal child health) as a contributing factor in birth outcomes and the health of the mother.
FTF is partnering with The Children’s Trust. The Children’s Movement of Florida and other community partners on promoting the Ready, Set, Go Miami, a children’s early learning activity tool kit for community partners, fathers, mothers and significant others with a focus on engaging more fathers’ participation. Reading to children strengthens relationships.
We are so proud that our Fatherhood Reading Squad program in M-DCPS was published in The Reading Teacher journal September/October 2020 in collaboration with FIU, School of Education and Human Development. The title of the paper is Bringing Neighborhood Dads into Classrooms: Supporting Literacy Engagement. Hats off to all the fathers who participated in this volunteer program to inspire children to read and learn and to the schools, administrators and teachers who participated. This is the reference to the entire article:
The successful virtual Fatherhood Conference 20/20 in celebration of our 10th year anniversary lead us to new thinking about fatherhood and to new opportunities to move us to action. Fathers benefit by seeing themselves as advocates for parental social justice: Remember REAP: Fathers’ Rights to Equitable Access and Participation in all areas of children’s lives and when interacting with service providers. For more info call 305-812-4000.
Click below to enjoy our 10th year anniversary video and the webinar with speakers National Fatherhood Leader Jeffery Johnson, Pediatrician Dr. Olunwa Ikpeazu, Activist Brother Lyle Muhammad and Social Justice Practitioner Dr. Etiony Aldarondo. This is what Advocacy looks like!