Fit 2-B Fathers

Program Description

Fit 2-B FATHERS (F2BF) is an social and fathering skills educational curriculum in which research-based information about inmate education and parenting education have been combined with the author’s personal and professional experiences to create a program for helping juvenile and adult males involved in the criminal justice system (e.g., those who are incarcerated, sentenced to an alternative to incarceration, or participating in community-transition programming) to become better men and fathers. Whether men live in prisons or in neighborhoods, in households with or separated from their children, they have key roles in fostering their children’s well-being (i.e., children need their fathers and fathers need their children). The F2BF curriculum offers facilitators a “pick-up-and-go” resource that can be used wholly or in-part. Beyond the intended audience, components of this curriculum have been used with Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS), teen mothers and fathers, early childhood professionals, and Head Start staff and parents.