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Voice for the Promotion of Responsible Fatherhood and Mentoring

 

Kenny Braswell5 Year - Mission and Goal (2010-15)

Fathers Incorporated (FI), a not-for-profit organization, will serve as a leader in the promotion of Responsible Fatherhood and Mentoring. This International, National, and local focus will raise the awareness about, and combat the impact of father absence. We will do this through the use of innovative social marketing and multi-media platforms, traditional communications, and product development. We seek to expand the range of work in the fields of comprehensive and non-traditional family service models. Fathers Incorporated will work to change the current societal and cultural definition of family to include fathers.

 

Why?

As the field of Responsible Fatherhood expands, it is imperative that we examine the full scope of service capacity and consumer need. Recently, the economic stability of non-custodial parents has been increasingly affected by the lack of employment opportunities and increasing debt. In the past, service providers have focused almost exclusively on reducing poverty for mothers and children. Today, research and practice tells us that we must do the same for fathers in order to ensure that they can provide for the well-being of their children - both emotionally and financially. The field continues to make strides in the traditional areas of service for fathers, for example, in the areas of child support, employment and training, re-entry and domestic violence. There are, however, additional areas of service needs which must be explored in order to fully provide low-income fathers with the tools necessary to be better fathers and men.

 

What’s Different about Fathers Incorporated?

Fathers Incorporated has renewed its pledge to be more diligent, driven, focused and innovative to the cause of creating an effective and nurturing atmosphere for the work of responsible fatherhood and mentoring.


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Five Year Objectives

  • Develop multi-media messages promoting the issue of responsible fatherhood and mentoring

  • Use online social marketing platforms to increase the range of impact and influence

  • Consolidate traditional and technologically proven methods of networking

  • Provide a mechanism to disseminate valuable and up-to-the-moment information; ie: National Fatherhood & Mentoring Resource Guide and National Magazine/Newspaper

  • Encourage and maximize natural opportunities for promotion and awareness. ie: National Mentoring Month, Mothers and Fathers Day, related conferences and events, etc.

  • Partner with International and National corporations to provide high profile collaborated efforts.

  • Develop Responsible Fatherhood and Mentoring speaker’s bureau

  • Develop effective and positive imagery of Responsible Fatherhood and Mentoring

  • Engage national and local Faith-based and grassroots partnership

  • Raise the awareness of responsible fatherhood and mentoring work to single mothers and related organizations

  • Assist in the creation of a national certification process for parent educators in the field of social work and responsible fatherhood

Goals

  • To ensure where possible, that each project addresses at least four(4) objectives

  • National Board of Directors by June 2010

  • To create a prototype Fatherhood/Mentoring Cable Talk Show by December 2010

  • Have five(5) National Faith-Based pilots of “Gentle Warriors” by October 2010

  • To conduct a 3-day Fatherhood and Mentoring Retreat in October 2011

  • To create a fully functioning multi-media web portal by 2011

  • Produce a two-hour History of Responsible Fatherhood Documentary by 2012

  • To produce a National Fatherhood/Mentoring Resource Guide by June 2012

  • To encourage a Responsible Fatherhood/Mentoring Cable Network by 2015

Immediate Tasks

  • Secure funding for the immediate production of “When The Tear Won’t Fall” and “Gentle Warriors”

  • Redesign www.kennethbraswell.com and www.fathersincorporated.com and secure www.gentlewarriors.org

  • Purchase of necessary equipment and software

  • Continue to gather information on the production of fatherhood/mentoring television project

  • Write a funding proposal for the 5-year plan.