YOU NEED FAMILY ENGAGEMENT THAT COMPLIES WITH NEW FUNDING.

(Title I, Title III, Title V, ACE After School, and ARP ESSER)

Our programs do more than just check boxes.

THEY WORK!

• TURN KEY PRESENTATIONS AND PROGRAMS PRESENTED TO YOUR FAMILIES

  We can fill up your cafeteria with engaged families working on academic content

  All of our proven programs are promoted and presented in english and spanish

• DO IT YOURSELF CURRICULUM OF SIMPLE, PROVEN, EFFECTIVE EVENTS

  Use our 20 years of experience to do it yourself with your schedule and budget

  All of our proven handouts and promotional materials provided in english and spanish

• DAILY-WEEKLY-MONTHLY RESOURCES SENT DIRECTLY TO YOUR FAMILIES

  Families sign up to get amazing resources and your job is already done

  ALL CONTENT is provided in english and spanish on your own labeled platform

• ON-DEMAND MONTHLY VIDEO CONTENT OF FAMILY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

  A monthly at home activity provided in engish and spanish videos, available anytime

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J. Michael Hall, M.Ed. has worked with over 200,000 fathers and professionals in 45 states and a couple of languages. Using his vast experience as an educator, speaker, and thought leader, he can provide the right training for your school or organization.

Mike works with fathers and families every week. He has the expertise to help your staff better understand how to better reach fathers and families for the sake of improved child outcomes. In half-day or full day workshops he can educate and motivate your staff and entire organization to tap into the strengths of both moms and dads in your family engagement efforts. If you are interested we can set up a phone call to talk about your needs and calendar opportunities.

Meet Funding and Compliance Standards

All of our products can be funded with Title I, Title III, and Title V, and After School Program funding in public schools.

As well, any family engagement funding in Head Start would be appropriate to use for our materials.  

Experts in Father and Family Engagement

For Head Start and Early Head Start Programs

TRAINING

(In Person and Virtual)

AN UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR GOALS

Our job is to help your organization reach your specific goals, not cram a canned speech down the throat of your team. The greatest compliment that we get is “You really get it.”

A PERSONALIZED TRAINING FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

I am an educator and a parent. I am good at what I do, I bring an expertise based on LOTS of experience but I am not anymore important than any one team member. I am blessed to get to work with so many people in the trenches and I like to roll up my sleeves and get with the people instead of stand on some pedestal. I can speak with authority but that authority comes from having done the same kind of work as your staff with the same types of challenges.

REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCE

I personally facilitate over 100 parent engagement programs per year. The expertise that I bring to the table is not based on what I USED to do. It is based on what I JUST did. I have seen almost every barrier and opportunity for parent engagement but by doing it every week, I stay current on what has worked and what is coming in our future for parents.

INTERACTION NOT AN INTERRUPTION

My job is to keep your staff from thinking they have better things to do. It is our goal to provide the best training your staff has ever experienced on any subject. I will use a few slides but I do not believe in “Death by Powerpoint”. Strong Fathers training is famous for being interactive and full of humor as well. Education is a serious business but it is also a funny business. People need to move, talk, and laugh for a good training to take place and we always ensure plenty of each in a full or half day training.

Foundations of Father Engagement

a six hour on-demand course for stafF to learn the foundations of father engagement.

Through the use of different sections, short videos, and quizzes your staff members can learn at their own pace. You can trust the process that uses metrics to see which videos were watched by participants and see grades on section quizzes. Once a participant actually finishes the videos and completes the quizzes they receive a certificate to verify that they have competed the course.

STRONG START EVENT KITS

We have done it ourselves and we have trained lots of educators just like you to do the same.

This kit is a simple yet extensive package of four academic dad and kid event programs. You can use this kit throughout the year to engage more fathers and families with minimal effort and at very little cost per program.

This kit contains everything you need to easily provide these programs for your families. From promotional materials and sign-in sheets to detailed timelines and step-by-step instructions we have given you everything you need to facilitate successful Strong Fathers events.

The Strong Schools Event Kit was developed by J. Michael Hall, M.Ed, the Founder and President of Strong Fathers. Mike has been a special education teacher, a middle school and elementary principal. He has done these very same programs in hundreds of schools over the past fifteen years. This kit was built with the busy educator in mind. Hundreds of school teachers and early childhood professionals have been trained to use this kit successfully.

Other professionals have also been successful by just using the kit.
These events have been used to consistently bring in more than One hundred families per event.
Post event evaluations have shown that families are learning and eager to return to other events.

This kit provides everything you need to prepare, promote, and present each event. Using our experience with over 200,000 families we walk you through the best practices and teach you how to stay away from the typical pitfalls of bringing families onto your campus.

• PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH

• SIMPLE SUPPLY LISTS AND INSTRUCTIONS

• PRACTICAL TIMELINES, AND EVEN SAMPLE SCRIPTS

• ALL OF THE FORMS, HANDOUTS, AND TEMPLATES THAT YOU WILL NEED

How Can We HELP you ENGAGE More Fathers and Families?

Send us your information and any comments on how you would like to partner with Strong Fathers-Strong Families, LLC

to Build Stronger Kids By Strengthening Fathers and Families.

Strong Fathers-Strong Futures for Middle Schools and High Schools

Our Strong Schools Events will work well at a Middle School, especially with administrator support. However, our Strong Fathers-Strong Futures curriculum is built to reach out to families of at-risk students through a Saturday school approach. Using the best practices for at-risk (and many times angry) families, this curriculum is built to cover some of the most pressing issues for teenagers and their families. It is built with six stand alone sessions that you can use in succession or as individual classes

MAKING PLANS FOR A STRONG FUTURE - Academic Achievement

SETTING A PATH FOR THE FUTURE - Personal Development For Kids and Parents

IT GOES BOTH WAYS - Developing Better Communication Between Parent and Student

PLANNING TO WORK AND WORKING THE PLAN - Getting School Work Done

LIVING TOGETHER CAN TAKE A LIFETIME TO LEARN - Getting Along

MAKING HEALTHY LIFE CHOICES - Substance Abuse Prevention

Each lesson is built in the same format so that staff members have minimal prep time for each class. With icebreakers and techniques that welcome families that have struggled with schools in the past, this curriculum is simple and safe for families and staff members to work together.

Training is not mandatory but available for this curriculum.

Strength Training

Strength Training is a successive ten week group course for fathers to build their capacity to be better fathers. In many instances these men or their families have been through trauma (divorce, CPS intervention, other stressful events) and are looking to set the future course for their families. While this course can work with any father in any situation, it is particularly built for fathers who are working on overcoming personal and environmental challenges.

Strength Training comes with all of the instructions, facilitator notes and scripts, and reproducible weekly materials that makes it effective and economical with nothing more to buy. Ever.

The Overall Goals of Strength Training

1. To benefit children by increasing their fathers’ emotional & financial support

The program strives to increase the men’s emotional connection to their children, which in turn increases their motivation and resolve to take care of their children financially.

2. To strengthen co-parenting relationships

Many Strength Training participants may have experienced the dissolution of their relationship with the mother of their children. The goal is to help the men see that an amicable, low-conflict relationship with the child’s mother leads to positive outcomes for the child, regardless of their relationship status.

3. To promote fathers’ parenting skills

Many Strength Training participants were fatherless as children and are at a loss as to how to father their children. Because of the trauma and isolation of being away from their children, they also lack opportunities to develop solid parenting skills. The goal is to prepare men to learn more about parenting after they resolve some of the issues that have hindered them for parenting well in the past.

Our program has worked in all types of schools and communities. We can help YOU be successful in your efforts to better engage fathers and families.

Our program is DIFFERENT but it is simple and effective. We would love to talk to you about how our program works and how it can work for you.

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