QIC Newsletter

QIC News

QIC-NRF newsletters share the most current information and activities of the QIC-NRF and its fatherhood project sites. Newsletters will feature articles that explain the project, relate to the themes of the model curriculum, provide tips for dads, share lessons learned, focus on timely topics such courts, engagement, and domestic violence, and highlight our various partners' and fathers' success stories.

The QIC-NRF is proud to announce the latest quarterly newsletter! The Spring 2009 edition can be access by clicking here.

The Spring 2009 edition includes these articles:

• Enhanced Representation for Non-Resident Fathers in Child Welfare Proceedings
  This article examines the issues that non-resident fathers face and explores strategies for attorneys to overcome these barriers, engage fathers in their children’s cases and enhance representation for non-resident fathers.
  
  
• Welcome
  A greeting from Howard Davidson, Director of the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law. The focus of this quarter’s newsletter is engaging non-resident fathers in the court process and legal issues that non-resident fathers may face.
  
  
• My Experiences With Child Welfare and the Legal System
  Shaine Yates, a father from Iowa, describes the struggles he faced when trying to gain custody of his son, who was placed in foster care when Shaine was a non-resident father.
  
  
• My Kids Are in State Custody, What Do I Do Now?
  This article provides guidance to non-offending, non-resident fathers when their children are involved in the child welfare system.
  
  
• 100 Years of Fathers Day
  This year is the 100th Anniversary of Father’s Day and is a good time to reflect on the valuable role that fathers play in the lives of their children. It is also important to provide the encouragement, support, and resources that many fathers need.
  
  
• What’s New With the QIC-NRF?
  A summary of what the QIC NRF partners and sites have been doing over the past several months. Activities include pilots of the model intervention, tracking outcomes, and developing training curricula for attorneys and child welfare workers.
  
  
• Collaborative Case Management: A Texas Model
  
Mervil Johnson describes the work of the Fatherhood Coalition of Tarrant County, Texas. The Fatherhood Coalition is a nonprofit association of social service agencies and concerned citizens working together to promote responsible fatherhood.


• 10 Tips on How to Work With Your Lawyer
  
Attorneys from the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law give 10 tips for fathers involved with legal proceedings. They also give suggestions on questions to ask and items to bring when meeting with your lawyer.


• Constitutional Rights of Non-Resident Fathers
  
This portion of the newsletter describes parental rights in child welfare proceedings as determined by the U.S. Constitution.