Learn tools and parenting skills to help you build a strong, caring relationship with your children
Working with a small group over 4 sessions, On My Shoulders will help you discover your unique strengths and learn how to overcome obstacles that can make it hard to be the strong, nurturing father you know you can be.
Topics covered include:
Improve your relationship and communication skills with your current (or future) partner
Over 4 sessions, the Within Our Reach (for couples) and Within My Reach (for individuals) workshops help people improve their personal relationships and family home life.
You will learn positive relationship skills and how to overcome obstacles, helping you achieve your relationship and marriage goals.
You – and your present or future partner – will experience/learn:
Provide education to participants on the cause and effects of domestic violence and child/abuse and neglect; this education increases knowledge and motivation towards preventing domestic violence and family violence among fathers.
The program will present handouts, educational information, discussion, and support for healthy relationships at a minimum of four times during a client’s time within the program. This will also involve information, education, and discussion of domestic violence issues and destructive relationships.
A collaborative and customized process that assesses, plans, implements, monitors, and evaluates options and services required to meet each client’s unique social services needs especially on issues facing fathers and support for effective parenting.
Our family support specialists provide fathers with the tools to become committed and responsible fathers by helping them connect with community resources and referral linkages to mental health, substance abuse treatment, primary care, legal assistance, housing, food, clothing, transportation etc.
Improve your work and financial outlook
The economic stability program focuses on job assessment, resume building, job preparation, financial literacy, assistance with job search, and referrals to job training and education programs. Building your career and financial skills is important. Through group sessions and one-on-one coaching, we can help you identify your job-related strengths and improve your prospects by updating core job search and financial skills. Participants are also eligible for job training referrals, and education programs are available.
Depending on your needs, you will learn:
The Long Island Fatherhood Initiative (LIFI) Peer Mentoring Program works to further assist fathers that are engaged in any of our offered courses: On My Shoulders, Within My/Our Reach for the duration and beyond their involvement with LIFI. Our goal is to continue working with fathers that wish to advance the skills and tools learned from the courses we provide in order to:
– Practice and hone the techniques that they have learned in class.
– Give fathers a safe and judgement free space to discuss topics related to fatherhood.
– Create a community and support network of engaged fathers and build lasting relationships.
– Meet and connect with other fathers to share experiences and discuss topics related to:
– Improving relationships and deepening meaningful connections with their partners and children.
– Overcoming obstacles and finding solutions that may challenge men from becoming the best fathers that they can be.
– How to engage in healthy and effective communication in the home and beyond.
– Stress management and conflict resolution.
– Exploring and setting attainable tangible goals and how to reach them.
Our aim is to provide an open, caring and trusting environment while establishing relationships that will foster opportunities for breakthroughs in self-respect, leadership, creativity, and relationships, while working to achieve tangible personal and educational goals for participating fathers working toward a common goal of becoming the best fathers that they can be.