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WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOP #24 10:30 AM FRIDAY • 1:30 PM SATURDAY • GAINESVILLE 1-2
Missing Link: A Dad
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To explain why is it important to engage fathers
2. How to use practical tools and strategies that can be utilized to engage fathers
3. How to overcome challenges to engaging fathers
4. To apply successful strategies for engaging and recruiting fathers
This Workshop will focus on how to authentically engage fathers in the systems of care and support them in their
journey to build an effective connection and relationship with their child that has mental health or emotional needs.
Practical, concrete strategies for overcoming some of the common challenges will be presented as well as suggestions
for addressing the collaborative issues involved in engaging fathers.
The information and strategies to be highlighted are based on the personal life experiences and work of the staff of the
Allegheny Family Network. All Network staff are family members who have raised children with mental or emotional
concerns. We will focus on knowing your audience and using a number of strategies to build and sustain these efforts.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• Networking—How to use every opportunity to network with agencies, programs, schools, churches, military, and
courts that have any involvement with fathers
• Collaboration—Examples of practical, take-home strategies for collaboration with fathers including specific strategies
used by presenters as well as discussion with participants of their ideas
• Support groups—How to create community-based and specialized support groups
• Family enrichment—Providing information and events to help strengthen families and provide family-based services
• Sustainability—Are needs being met? What’s in it for me? How is this helping me?
A number of interactive strategies will be employed. Videos will be shown, and there will be opportunities for
discussion on how to better engage fathers. The faculty team for this session will offer perspectives of social service
experts, family support partners, advocates, and parents of children with special needs.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Rick Cobbs, Supervisor, Allegheny County Community, Allegheny Family Network,
Pittsburgh, PA
Keith Blockton, Fathers/Family Support Partner, Allegheny Family Network, Pittsburgh, PA
Ronn Craig, Data Tech Administrative Assistant, Allegheny Family Network, Pittsburgh, PA
WORKSHOP #25 10:30 AM FRIDAY • 1:30 PM SATURDAY • TALLAHASSEE 1-2
Integrating Cultural and Linguistic Competence and
Family and Youth Involvement Through Social Marketing
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To explain how social marketing, cultural and linguistic competence (CLC), and family engagement plans can be
aligned to meet program objectives based on logic model
2. How to use tactics that have been successful to pursue joint objectives of social marketing, CLC, and family
engagement workgroups
3. To employ effective strategies to combine efforts of CLC, social marketing, and family/youth engagement
for greater impact
This Workshop will focus on how to use social marketing to amplify the voice of families and youth and to make
cultural and linguistic competence a visible reality in all aspects of systems of care. Faculty will describe strategies that
can be used to ensure quality interaction and collaboration among families, the CLC team, and the social marketing
team, including coordination of joint activities that served to meet their parallel plans. The strategies to be outlined
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