{"id":21987,"date":"2021-10-28T18:55:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.childrenshomeandaid.org\/?p=21987"},"modified":"2023-09-12T15:54:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T20:54:04","slug":"realizing-the-power-of-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/realizing-the-power-of-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Realizing the Power of Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our most recent result of the quarter showcases the success of our Power of Fathers program. Fathers participating in Power of Fathers were found to spend more time with their children, improve their parenting and co-parenting skills and their overall relationships with their children and co-parents. The impact of being a present parent has benefits for the fathers as well, including an increase in heightened regulation and expression of emotion, an overall greater sense of well-being, and a decrease in substance abuse and contact with the criminal justice system. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Power of Fathers was a &nbsp;five-year innovative collaboration between Children\u2019s Home &amp; Aid, Fathers, Families &amp; Healthy Communities, Family Focus, and Metropolitan Family Services. Children\u2019s Home &amp; Aid reached 309 fathers over the five years in Chicago\u2019s Greater Englewood and North Lawndale communities.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenshomeandaid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ninja-forms\/38\/RoQ-PoF-FINAL-with-link-.pdf\">Read the full Report:<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenshomeandaid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ninja-forms\/38\/RoQ-PoF-FINAL-with-link-.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.childrenshomeandaid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Realizing-the-Power-of-Fathers-1-300x175.png\" alt=\"Learn How We're Realizing the Power of Fathers!\" class=\"wp-image-22025\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our most recent result of the quarter showcases the success of our Power of Fathers program. Fathers participating in Power of Fathers were found to spend more time with their children, improve their [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"inline_featured_image":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[400],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29624,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21987\/revisions\/29624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}