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Our ProgramsThe Fatherhood Collaborative works in concert with other agencies to achieve its mission. Our Dad & Me @ the Library program has been running continuously for the past four years. Others are single events that return each year.
 Dad & Me @ the Library is a program put on in collaboration with the Peninsula Library System and the San Mateo County Libraries for San Mateo County fathers and their children. In its sixth year, Dad & Me @ the Library continues to grow. The program provides an opportunity for dads (or other adults) to bring their kids to the libraries for enjoyable, age-appropriate entertainment. The kids also get song books donated by Klutz Press and the San Mateo County Library, and a really positive literacy experience at the local library. Currently, the Dad & Me @ the Library programs are put on by the Puppet Art Theater Company (www.puppetarts.com), which specializes in the development of live touring productions geared toward effectively conveying educational messages. Through years of performance experience they have developed and honed highly successful methods to communicate educational information to school age children, with entertaining and enjoyable productions.
We are pleased to announce the our new "Partners in Service" for calendar year 2009. Our Partners in Service provide innovative and important father-friendly services in keeping with the mission of the Fatherhood Collaborative, but that cannot be offered by the Fatherhood Collaborative itself. We received many excellent proposals, and were sorry that we could not partner with each of the agencies who responded. For the calendar year 2009, our Partners in Service are:
Family & Children Services - $6,000- to continue its Positive Solutions Men’s Outreach Project–a project that provides outreach, workshops, and support services to men in the ‘East of Bayshore Community’ who are at risk of family violence, to help them positively change the way they interact with their partners and parent their children.
Peninsula Library Service / Community Information Program - $6,000 – to research and compile an on-line Resource Guide for fathers in San Mateo County.
Ravenswood School District -- $3,000 – for equipment, transportation and incentives for its Team Dad / Equipo de Padres, a program to increase father-involvement in the pre-school program.
Family Connections -- $2,500 – materials, field trips and speakers for its Father / Male Caregiver Program, a program to increase father and male caregiver involvement in the parent-participation pre-school.
Sunset Ridge Elementary School -- $2,500 – for food and arts and crafts supplies for to expand the Donuts for Dads program, which is designed to increase the involvement of the fathers of first grade children.
For 2007-2008, three grants, totalling $20,000 were awarded to three different agencies: $10,000 was designated for the Children & Family Service for the launch of the Positive Solutions Men’s Outreach Project; the other two partners were: the Women's Recovery Association and the YMCA of the Mid-Peninsula.
To help sustain this program, we need support from the community. If you are able to contribute even a small amount, please send your tax-deductible check,* made payable to the Fatherhood Collaborative of San Mateo County, to:
Eve Agiewich Fatherhood Collaborative Director c/o Family Health Services San Mateo County Health Department 2000 Alameda de las Pulgas San Mateo, CA 94403
Each year, the Fatherhood Collaborative puts together an informational or educational conference on a subject of importance to fathers or those who work with fathers. For 2008, in keeping with our current focus on ‘family relationships’, our conference dealt with ‘Building Better Families – with Developmental Assets.’ In collaboration with the San Mateo County Human Services Agency, the San Mateo County Health Department, Youth and Family Enrichment Services (YFES), the Edgewood Center for Children & Families, and the YMCA of the Mid Peninsula, we put on an interactive training on February 27, 2008, led by a number of practitioners who actually use the Developmental Assets in their daily work. After an overview and a panel discussion, the more than 60 participants broke into small discussion groups to talk about how they might take their new understandings back to their own workplaces, to help their clients build better families.
Dad & Me @ the Park The 7th annual Dad & Me @ the Park, held June 14, 2008, far surpassed even the 2007 turn-out. (See the album) More than 700 family members-- fathers, grandfathers, brothers, uncles, and boyfriends, along with mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and girlfriends, with their children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, enjoyed a warm, sunny day at Coyote Point Park. They received books and t-shirts, enjoyed the music and games of The Cotton Candy Express and their friends, and they gobbled up the great lunch prepared by the Catering Connection. This year, again, through a collaboration with the Coyote Point Museum , we were able to provide free admission to the museum for everyone who wanted to go. Many thanks go to our generous sponsors, without whom we could not have created such a fabulous day, all at no cost to the families:
Coyote Point Museum Family Service Agency of San Mateo County IHSD, Inc. (Institute for Human and Social Development) JobTrain(formerly OICW) Peninsula Library System San Mateo County Department of Child Support Services San Mateo County Library San Mateo County Office of EducationYMCA of the Mid PeninsulaANNOUNCING THE 2009 FATHERHOOD COLLABORATIVE AWARDS! The 2009 Fatherhood Collaborative Awards were announced September 22, 2009 at the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors meeting. Supervisor Mark Church presented the awards to the honorees. Fatherhood Advocacy: The MY HERO PROGRAM of the Network for a Healthy California. Dr. Chanrandle Jordan received the award on behalf of the program.
 Fatherhood Service: PRENATAL TO THREE PARENTING EDUCATION PROGRAM, received by Coordinator, Kristine Averilla (between Supervisor Mark Church, and Fatherhood Collaborative Advisory Board Chair, Bruce Collins.  Father of the Year: Robert L. Jones, was nominated by his wife, Gloria, and his two children for being an extraordinary father, who "talked to and encouraged [his] children during pregnancy, before they were born." According to his wife, “He counsels, encourages, motivates, mentors and pushes not only our children, but young men wherever he is." His wife went on to describe his caring for their granddaughter who was born prematurely and weighed less than two pounds. "Grandfather would stroke her tiny little arm with one finger through the small opening [of the incubator], talking to her, telling her how much she is loved, how she will be a beautiful woman when she grows up and will help grandmother bake cookies, and of course we are going to Disneyland." We are honored to present our award to this Father of the Year.
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opportunity for fathers and other significant male caregivers to spend time with their children, while bringing them to one of our beautiful county parks for a free afternoon of play, activities and fun.
