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Non-Resident Fathers Project Selects Four National Sites for Funding to Increase Father Involvement and Improve Outcomes in Child Welfare
Date:2/26/2008

DENVER, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System (QIC-NRF) today announced the four projects that have been selected to receive funding from the Administration of Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 2008 to 2011. The purpose of the sub-grants is the experimentation of a model intervention and evaluation of child outcomes as the selected sites and the QIC-NRF join efforts to research the engagement of non-resident fathers with their children who are involved in the child welfare system. Through this national effort, the QIC-NRF hopes to improve ultimate child-welfare outcomes of safety, permanency and well-being.

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The newly awarded sites are:

-- Indiana Department of Child Services (Indianapolis), in collaboration with Indiana Fathers and Families Center and the Indiana University School of Social Work. The Indiana Department includes the Child Support Enforcement Agency. This closely links the work of the two organizations.

-- Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) of the Department of Social and Health Services for the State of Washington: Region IV (King County), in collaboration with local fatherhood programs Divine Alternatives for Dads and Fresh Start Fatherhood Program; Catalyst for Kids; the Division of Child Support, King County Juvenile Court, and the Office of Public Defense; and program management as well as independent research through the Northwest Institute for Children and Families at the University of Washington School of Social Work.

-- El Paso County, Colorado (Colorado Springs) Department of Human Services in collaboration with The Center for Fathering, Policy Studies Inc., the Parenting Opportunity Program, Goodwi
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