The document provides an agenda and materials for a workshop on promoting responsible fatherhood and parenting for teen parents. The agenda includes sessions on father figures, the needs of teen parents, identifying resources, priority setting, and promoting responsible fatherhood. Workshop goals are to explore attitudes toward young parents, identify knowledge and skills barriers, and encourage improved and effective parenthood. Several activities are outlined to help participants reflect on father figures in their own lives, discuss the educational and behavioral needs of teen parents, identify supportive services for teen parents, and set priorities for teen parents. A video on cultural forces influencing fatherhood and responsible parenting is also included.

1. Title

2. Agenda
8:30 WELCOME
9:00 Father Figures
10:00 Needs of Teen Parents
11:00 BREAK
11:15 Who Can Help Me?
11:45 LUNCH
12:45 Priority Setting
1:30 Promoting Responsible Fatherhood
2:30 Reflection and Evaluation
2:45 ADJOURN

3. Welcome
INTRODUCTIONS AND
OVERVIEW

4. Workshop Goals
• Explore their attitudes toward young parents, both
teen mothers and teen fathers
• Identify knowledge and skill barriers to the effective
parenting
• Increase their knowledge of the needs related to
decision-making and resource identification, and
priority setting
• Identify the programmatic needs of young parents
through sharing of experience and sharing of best
practice
• Identify a conceptual framework for designing
programs to encourage improved and effective
parenthood

5. Workshop Objectives
• List three educational or behavioral needs for
family planning
• Understand the role viewpoints play in priority
setting during family planning skill application
• Identify personal attitudes and beliefs teen
parenting
• Describe a decision-making model for use with
children and young adults facing family planning
decisions
• List six resources teen parents need to be resilient
and effective parents

6. Introductions
• Facilitator(s)
• Staff
• Participants
– Name
– Grade/Level
– School Affiliation

7. Working Agreement
• Maintain confidentiality • Avoid making assumptions
• Respect each other’s point of about other members of the
view; recognize that we all group
have some biases • Share responsibility for what
• Speak for yourself—use “I” gets learned today
language; take some risks to be • Ask any questions--there are no
honest dumb questions
• Be nonjudgmental; no put- • Share the time; participate as
downs; be constructive while much as possible
giving each other feedback • ELMO (Enough, lets move on)
• Listen with an open mind • Use discretion with self-
• Recognize that some conflict disclosure
can be helpful and that we • Have fun
should not always avoid it • The Vegas Rule (What happens
• Pass if you feel uncomfortable in Vegas . . .)

8. Icebreaker
FATHER FIGURES

9. Father Figures
• Thinking about figures in your own life
completed the Handout “Father Figure”:
– Reflect on the person that first comes to mind
for each category then reflecting on that
person, write the first six words that come to
mind when you think of that person and
record them on the chart

10. Father Figures
• Not all persons have had a positive experience of
fatherhood
• Good parenting is an important aspect in any child’s
life
• Fathers often play an instructive and formative role in
our lives whether positive or negative
• Many persons grow up without a father
• Fathers are both archetypes and real people
• Parenthood is a skill and it is possible to be taught and
learned.
• Family planning skills are more than condoms, there
are real expectations of parents in the world

11. Activity
NEED OF TEEN PARENTS

12. Fathers, Mothers, and Parents
• Educational Needs
– What are the knowledge needs a teen mother has
(don’t assume he/she/they had a role model of
any kind):
• Behavioral Needs
– What new behaviors will she need to adopt (don’t
assume she/he/they had a role model of any
kind)
• FLE Instruction
– Are we currently addressing these knowledge and
behavioral needs? If so, how? If not, how could
we?

13. Activity
WHO CAN HELP ME?

14. Sourcing Support
• Each participant has a list of needs
common for teen parents
• Identify as many of the supportive service
access points as you can
• List the name and if possible, contact
person, for each of the resource sites

15. Sourcing Support
• Did anyone complete the entire handout
without help from anyone else?
• Did anyone complete the entire handout
with help from others?
• Were there any resources or pieces of
information that everyone struggled with?
• Are there resources not on this list that you
thought were important?

16. Supportive Needs for Teen Parents
• Social Services • Emergency Assistance
• Non-Profits • Weekend/Evening Child
• Food Assistance Support
• Child Day Care • Continuing Education
• Legal Support Services
• General Medical Services • Financial Education
Services
• Family Planning Centers
• Transportation Support
• Parenting Classes and Resources
• School Administration • Maternity Care
Liaison
• Care Coordination
• Shelters

17. Activity
PRIORITY SETTING

18. Priorities for Teen Parents
• High School Education • College Education
• Health Care • Finding Employment
• Extra-Curricular • Homework
Activities • Time with Child
• Time with Friends
• Time with Family
• Parenting Education
• Establishment of
Family
• Getting Married

19. Video and Lecturette
PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE
FATHERHOOD

20. “Are We Programming Boys to Fail”

21. Cultural Forces
• Education System
– Disproportionate Literacy and Suspension
Rates
• Economy
– Lack of Job Opportunities Post-Education
• Thug Culture
– Prevalence of Media Advocating Violence
• Mass Incarceration
– Disproportionate Rates of Incarceration

22. Promoting Responsible Fatherhood
• PREVENT
– men from having children before they are ready
• PREPARE
– boys/men for the legal, financial, emotional
responsibilities of fatherhood
• ESTABLISH
– paternity at birth
• INVOLVE
– men who are fathers, married or not
• SUPPORT
– fathers in their important roles

23. Questions and Evaluations