Fatherhood

Become Empowered * Get Supported * Experience Brotherly Love

The Next Door Fatherhood Initiative is more than a program, it’s a brotherhood. Cultures of all ethnicities and backgrounds have benefited from the program relationally, and economically. Statistics show that strong families are essential to the future of our community, and that both mothers and fathers play a significant role in the lives of their children. Therefore, Next Door provides innovative ways for fathers to get engaged, and connects them to the resources that they may need to become the fathers that they intend to be.

Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood Program:

The Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood Program helps fathers learn how to strengthen their relationship with their children, wife or the mother of their children. It also provides direct assistance with employment, assistance with child support issues, driver license recovery, substance abuse, housing, entrepreneurship, and etc. Within this program, some of the topics include the following:

Manhood
Values
Copying as a Single Father/Building Your Child’s Self-Esteem
Dealing with Stress
Life Skills
Relationships
Understanding the Child Support System

Man to Man Group:

The Man to Man group engages experienced fathers to serve as mentors to young fathers who have graduated from the Conscious Fathering Workshops. This group of men get together regularly to discuss a wide variety of topics including:

Sharing life experiences—how we are affected by them and how we deal with them.
Discussing topics that assist in self-awareness and modeling positive parenting.
Special guest speakers addressing topics of holistic fathering (social, mental, physical, and spiritual)
Diversity (in thought, and cultural)
Intergenerational mentoring for teen dads
Gaining employability skills
Job and Career resources
Entrepreneurial resources

Fatherhood Enrichment Program/ Conscious Fathering Workshop:

The Conscious Fathering Workshops specifically provide support and information for new and expectant dads. Fathers receive information on the basics of parenting, child safety, infant brain development, parent/child bonding and parent-to-parent communication. Topics covered include:

Helpful tips on bonding with your baby
Dads and Breastfeeding
Protecting and providing for your baby as a new father
Learn C.P.R. ( Consistent, Predictable, Reliable ) parenting skills

The Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood Program meets every Monday and Wednesday in the morning, from 10am-12pm, or every Tuesday and Wednesday in the evening from 4:30pm to 6:30pm at Next Door Foundation.

For more information on the Man to Man Group, or The Fatherhood Enrichment Program/Conscious Fathering Workshop, contact Alphonso Pettis, Fatherhood/Family Involvement Specialist, at (414) 562-2929 ext. 174 or Delvyn Crawford, Fatherhood Specialist at: ext. 262.