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Welcome from Executive Director Tracy Robinson
Director Tracy Robinson |
Welcome to the first edition of the Ohio Commission on Fatherhood e-newsletter. The OCF e-newsletter will keep the community informed about OCF four objectives: funding programs, engaging the community, trainings and policy recommendations. This framework allows the Commission to strategically promote and strengthen fatherhood in goverment, families and the community. I hope you enjoy our first e-newsletter. Please check our website at www.fatherhood.ohio.gov for information about what's happening around the state to strengthen fatherhood. Sincerely, J. Tracy Robinson Executive Director Ohio Commission on Fatherhood |
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Chairman Calls for National Commission on Fatherhood
Chairman Peter Lawson Jones  |
Dear Friend of Fathers and Families:
The time has come for our federal government to
establish a National Fatherhood Commission.
As the ten states with official fatherhood programs
and the hundreds of public agencies and non-profit neighborhood-based
organizations with similar initiatives have correctly concluded: we cannot seriously address the wide spectrum
of social pathologies that we daily confront without strengthening families,
and we, most assuredly, cannot bolster families without better engaging fathers
in raising and nurturing their children.
Unfortunately, with the frightening explosion over the past several
decades in the number of failed marriages and out-of-wedlock births, that task
has become increasingly more challenging. More>> |
Ohio is one of the only states in the nation with a statewide fatherhood
commission. In 1999, our current Chairman Peter Lawson Jones had the foresight
to write a law
creating the Ohio Commission on Fatherhood. One of the great strengths of
the law is that Commissioners come from all three branches of government so
everyone has a voice at the table. Strengthening fatherhood in Ohio requires
everyone's involvement. More>> |
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Fatherhood Around the State
Fatherhood Regions  | The Ohio Commission on Fatherhood awards grants to exemplary fatherhood programs
throughout the state of Ohio each biennium. One of four core objectives of the
Ohio Commission on Fatherhood is to Fund Fatherhood Programs. The Ohio
Commission on Fatherhood recently completed another round of fatherhood grants
for 2010-2011. The Commission awarded grants to nine fatherhood programs located
through out the state of Ohio in the amount of $1.5 million. More>>
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