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THE FATHERHOOD PROGRAM GRADUATION 2010

The parents of the Fatherhood Program at Dacoma II celebrated the end of their coursework and their graduation. They received a certificate of participation and celebrated with their families and the Fatherhood Program staff. The same way, the Fatherhood program participants at Mt Houston, Oakwood, and James Berry Elementary also celebrated with a delicious cake and refreshments. Congratulations to all our families!


 AVANCE’s Fatherhood Coordinator,
  and recipient of 2009’s Houston
  Hispanic Author of the Year award,
  Héctor Rodríguez featured in
  newspaper articles.


         See articles: 
     The Leader -April 2010
    
Chron.com/labutaca- Feb 2009

 


 

 
THE COMMITMENT

The Fatherhood Program emphasizes the first three main points focused on a dad's relationship with his own children.

·         Loving your Child - affirming and nurturing your child, loving and/or respecting the child's mother.

·         Coaching your Child - being involved in your child's life and knowing them well

·         Modeling for your Child - consistently living the values you wish to pass on to your children

 

OUR PURPOSE

The AVANCE Fatherhood Program is committed to:

  • Enabling fathers to become involved and loving dads
  • Enhance family unity
  • Increasing father’s role in their children’s education
  • Improve interpersonal relationships among couples

 

TOPICS

The Presentations focus on enhancing personal development and life-coping skills

  • Are dads really unique?
  • Benefits of a healthy marriage
  • Age appropriate discipline
  • Family communication
  • The father as a role model
  • Better parents, better children
  • Spending time alone with your child
  • Tips for new dads
  • Values clarification

Topics also include:

  • Parenting issues,
  • Communication,
  • Interpersonal relationships,
  • Parents as a team
  • Overcoming crisis and adversity (Resilience)

METHODOLOGY: DYNAMIC – PRACTICAL

  • Interactive lessons
  • Support group sessions
  • Presentations by field experts
  • Hands-on activities
  • Educational field trips

 

 


SUPPORT SERVICES:

  • Classes conducted in English and Spanish

  • On site child care

  • Food/refreshments provided

  • Advocacy and referrals

 

 

FATHERHOOD PROGRAM

 THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING PARENTS

By: Héctor A Rodríguez D.

Being parents is an event that transforms us and challenges our personal development. That is why it is necessary to ask ourselves:

What does it mean to be an adult?

Our knowledge of development can be useful in many areas of our family life. It can make us feel more secure in ourselves; make us more flexible and more understanding in certain situations and will help us to better enjoy the wonderful adventure that it is to be parents.

Being an adult parent means closely examining the problem of discipline: what is it, what does it mean and what it should be. Our problems can’t be solved by forcing our children to obey us, or leaving them to do what they wish without clear controls and limits. Remember that nowadays one can better educate by lowering our voices and raising our points of arguments.

Research in the field of pedagogy has moved in the same direction. John Dewey and other researchers, who head a movement called advanced education, state that if we want our children to be capable of thinking for themselves, we have to help them to develop their internal controls.

It is not possible to make them act in a determined manner by means of terrorizing them. If we do this, they will always need a totalitarian voice of authority to be able to control them. We have to show them how to live in a constructive manner, to accept the responsibilities they have, not by means of force, but rather with love and understanding, given that learning self-control is a slow process.

Another new and important observation alludes to the fact that behavior is also symbolic and significant. When a child does something that to us seems incomprehensible, we need to understand what he / she wishes to express; that is why it is important to learn to reach out to their personal world to understand and help him / her.

Being parents is a unique learning experience both for the children and their parents; it implies learning to live outside ourselves with generosity to be able to share our fragility, and the grand experience that it is to be human beings.

 

 

 

 

 

CLASS SCHEDULES

 

 

Cluster # 1

Dacoma II

Drew, Golden Forest, Golf, Holbrook and Acres Homes

Meetings will be held at Dacoma II on

Mondays 6:30-8:30pm

 

Cluster # 2

Acres Homes
Mt Houston, Osborne, Hardy, Jefferson, Oakwood

Meetings will be held at Acres Homes on

Tuesdays 6:30-8:30 pm

 

Cluster # 3

Drew Center

Hardy, Jefferson, Ketelsen, Drew, Browning

Meetings will be held at Drew on

Wednesdays 6:30-8:30pm

 

Cluster # 4

Jensen Drive

Oakwood, Mt Houston, Osborne

Meetings will be held at Jensen Drive

Thursday 6:30-8:30 pm

 

 

 

 


English speaking parents participants of clusters #2, 3 and 4, will  meet at Acres Homes (Cluster 1)

 

 

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The Fatherhood Program will meet weekly

  • Once with fathers only
  • Twice as a couple
  • Once as a family


A father carries pictures where his
money used to be.
Unknown

 

STAFF:

 



A father and a dad are not the same:
One can be a dad and not a father,
Or one can be a father and not bother
To earn through love the more endearing name.

Some find fatherhood a bit too tame,
Leaving all the details to the mother,
Or dumping the sweet burden on another
Man with just a passing twinge of shame.


You have been our dad so many years
That you've become the landscape that is home, The mountain that we look to from afar. No matter where we go we're not alone,
For you remain within to still our fears
And be the word that tells us who we are.

- Unknown

 

 

 


Downloads

The Billion Dollar Man
The Annual Public Cost of Father Absence

Family Structure, Father Closeness, and Drug Abuse
Full Study

Family Structure, Father Closeness, and Delinquency
Full Study

Protectors or Perpetrators? Fathers, Mothers, and Child Abuse and Neglect (68 KB)
released January 2008

Courtesy of Fatherhood.org

 

 

Useful Links:

Head Start Centers

http://www.fatherhood.org/

www.surf-masters.com

Health Issues - Flu

 

 

THE FATHERHOOD PROGRAM
ANNUAL FAMILY FISHING DAY2009
Was a Great Success!!!

View the Photo Slide-show here

On June 13th AVANCE families gathered at the Boy Scouts of America’s Camp Strake for the annual Fatherhood Fishing Trip. Over 300 participants lined the lake and tried their luck at fishing, while snacking on watermelon and drinking lemonade. The camp greenery and open spaces provided for a picturesque background, and the large trees provided some respite from Houston’s summer sun.

While families were plunking their lines into the still waters of the lake, others decided to take advantage of the camp grounds to play in the park or to enjoy a nice game of cards. Others chose to stay under the covered eating area to snack on delicious grilled burgers, and get a break from the sun.

We thank all of the AVANCE participants that were able to come and take part in our fun fishing trip, and that are committed to spending quality time with their children.

Place : “Camp Strake”
            “Boy Scouts of America”
              11322 Interstate 45 S,
              Conroe TX

Date: June 13th, 2009
     8:00 am – 5:00 pm.

If you need information about the
Fatherhood Program and the services
we provide,  please contact
Héctor Rodríguez, Fatherood Coordinator
at (713)812-0033 Ext. 203”

 

Archives:

Fishing Trip 2009
Thanksgiving 2009

 

Dear Daddy...

Dear Daddies: This baby comes with very special instructions, which should be carefully read before you raise him.

 

There's always something great happening at The Fatherhood Program,

so be sure and return to visit us soon again!

 

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