Digital Library

NFLG's Digital Library provides resources that may be of use to you. Click the link(s) below the resource. You will need Adobe Reader to view most of the documents below. Click here to download.

October 2011: Two webinars co-sponsored with the National Association for Relationship and Marriage Education:

Help! We Didn't Get Funded, Now What?

Successfully Launching Your Federal Grant

The Building Strong Families Project: The Early Impacts of Building Strong Families, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., May 2010: 

The Building Strong Families Project 

Recommendations to the President Report, President's Advisory Council of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Fatherhood and Healthy Families Taskforce, March 2010: 

Fatherhood and Healthy Families

Testimony by Dr. Kirk E. Harris, NFLG, for the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support: Hearing to Evaluate the Effectiveness of of Responsible Fatherhood Programs, June 17, 2010: 

NFLG Testimony to House Ways & Means Committee

Congressional Research Service memorandum re: The Julia Carson Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2009, June 26, 2009: 

Julia Carson Responsible Fatherhood & Healthy Families Act of 2009

Dads in the Mix: The Future of Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives, Governing for Children and Families, A Social Policy Conference Series, March 19, 2008:  
        
        Dads in the Mix: PowerPoint Presentations

        Dads in the Mix: Panelists' Bios

        Dads in the Mix: Audience Q&A

"Strengthening Fragile Families," The Future of Children, prepared for The Annie E. Casey Foundation. Two NFLG members, Dr. Ron Haskins and Dr. Ron Mincy, and other distinguished social scientists revised the fragile family phenomenon:

         Issue Brief #1: The Vision for Responsible Fatherhood

          Issue Brief #2: Responsible Fatherhood's Contribution to Child, Family & Community Well-being

          Issue Brief #3: Accomplishments of the Responsible Fatherhood Field

          Issue Brief #4: Different Fathers Face Different Challenges

          Issue Brief #5: Fathers of Color Face Tougher Odds

          Issue Brief #6: Bipartisan Support for Fatherhood Policy

           Issue Brief #7: Good Practice Through Accumulated Experience

President Obama's National Fatherhood and Healthy Families Agenda: A webinar presented to NFLG's stakeholders, April 1, 2010:

          President Obama's National Fatherhood and Healthy Families Agenda: Transcript

           PowerPoint Slide Show

           Side-by-Side Comparison of Marriage & Fatherhood Funding Program Provisions

An Update: What's at Stake for Fathers and Families in Congress?: A webinar presented to NFLG's stakeholders, September 27, 2010:

What's at Stake for Fathers & Families in Congress?


The Fathering Indicators Framework: A Tool for Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis was produced by the National Center on Fathers and Families and sponsored by The Annie E. Casey Foundation:

          The Fathering Indicators Framework

H.R. 2979 and the Well-Being of Low-Income Families, requested by The Honorable Danny K. Davis for the E3 Forum: Black Fathers, Families and Place-Based Community Development, Washington, DC, October 27, 2009:

       H.R. 2979 and the Well-Being of Low-Income Black Families

Government Accountability Office, Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, March 11, 2010:

      GAO Letter Transmitting Report, February 22, 2010

       Statement of Kay E. Brown, Director, Education, Workforce & Income Security

     Testimony of Carmen R. Nazario, Assistant Secretary for Children & Families, U.S. DHHS

A New Era of Partnerships: Report of Recommendations to the President, President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, released March 2010:

        A New Era of Partnerships

Responsible Government: Investing in the Well-being of Black Fathers, Families and Communities, prepared with the support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, October 2009:

        Responsible Government: Investing in the Well-being of Black Fathers, Families and Communities


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