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Getting men involved: Strategies for early childhood programs James A. Levine, Dennis T. Murphey and Sherrill Wilson This guide helps program planners develop projects that specifically involve men in raising children. It stresses the importance of male involvement in project development, assessment, and goal-setting. Male involvement with young children can help change current stereotypes of women raising children alone. Also, men who participate in child care provide positive role models for children who are without such figures in their lives. The book includes exercises to help the reader explore personal attitudes and reactions to male involvement with children and describes fourteen model programs facilitating male involvement. For example, the Manpower Program of the Miami Valley Child Development Centers of Dayton, Ohio, recruits men from the community to volunteer in classrooms. In Minnesota, the public schools offer a program called Dad and Me, in which significant males can spend time with children after work in the classroom and can relate to other men as well. These programs support healthy parenting techniques and encourage men to take responsibility for their roles in child development. The guide lists resources available to implement projects that involve men with preschoolers.
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Disclaimer Free To Grow is a national program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with direction and technical assistance provided by the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. |