National Representative
2012 – 2013
Ways to Engage & Increase Male Membership
By the end of this workshop you will know:
• The need for male engagement in children’s lives.
• Barriers for father involvement.
• Ways to engage males and increase PTA male
membership.
• How the PTA M.O.R.E. Alliance can help your PTA
grow male membership and engagement.
Ways To
Engage & Increase
PTA Male
Membership
Male Engagement
By the Numbers
The Importance of Male Involvement
By the Numbers – In the Home
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In 2010, 33% of U.S. children live in homes
where biological fathers are absent.
20.3 million children lived with no father
(biological, step, or adoptive) in the home.
In a study of 3.7 million unwed mothers,
reports show roughly 40% of fathers had no
contact with children during the previous year.
A father absent from the household sees his
child an average of 12 days per month.
www.pccwichita.org/dads
The Importance of Male Involvement
By the Numbers –Education
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Fatherless children are twice as likely to drop
out of school.
Students living in father-absent homes are
twice as likely to repeat a grade in school.
50% of all children with highly involved fathers
in two-parent families report getting mostly A’s
through 12th grade, compared to 35.2% of
children of nonresident father families.
www.fatherhood.org/media/consequences-of -father-absent-statistics
The Importance of Male Involvement
The Impact of Positive Male Engagement
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Role modeling
Making choices
Improved problem-solving abilities
Providing financial support
Providing emotional support
Improved student performance
www.2.ed.gov/pubs/parents/calltocommit/chap1.html
Identifying
Barriers for
Father
Involvement
Male Involvement Barriers
Possible Reasons Fathers Are NOT Involved
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Getting fathers into the school building
Institutional practices
Language and cultural barriers
Disconnected community-based organizations
Education
No time
Not knowing what to do
Unsafe Neighborhoods
Spousal or adult support
Separation or Divorce
www.2.ed.gov/pubs/parents/calltocommit/chap1.html
Engaging
Males in
Your PTA
Engaging Males in Your School & PTA
How to make your PTA “male-friendly”
1. Educate dads on the importance of their
involvement
2. Emphasize getting involved doesn’t necessarily
mean a large time commitment
3. Design invitation messages specifically for dads
4. Sign-up male and female PTA recruiters
5. Actively seek male membership in the community
6. Publicize men’s involvement in your PTA
7. Communicate effectively with men
8. Ask men to join
www.pta.org/dadsandschools
Male
Engagement
Tips
Male Engagement Tips
Ways to Get Increased Results
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Promote events with sports themes
Host scheduled Father-Child events at school
Use “male-friendly” language in messaging
Stay in contact with participating men
Encourage males to become PTA leaders
Show men you seriously note their suggestions
Promote male only “Men’s Talk” events
PTA M.O.R.E.
Men Organized to
Raise Engagement
www.pta.org/pta_more.asp
PTA M.O.R.E.
Alexandria, VA
•Founded by National PTA
•Helps PTA Leaders & Units work with
schools and communities to provide
programs that engage fathers and
positive male role models
•Acts as a resource for fatherhood
issues
•Increases the visibility and outreach of
the quality programming of the
coalition members
www.pta.org/pta_more.asp
Meet the
PTA MORE
Alliance Members
All Pro Dad
Tampa, Florida
•Founded by Tony Dungy and a program
of Family First
•Dedicated to strengthening the family
and male involvement
•Hosts several father engagement
events such as: All Pro Dad’s Day, NFL
Father & Kids Experience, and Play of
the Day
•Provides easy to use materials for
hosting father involvement events
www.allprodad.com
The Black Star Project
Chicago, Illinois
www.blackstarproject.org
•Helps to improve the quality of life in
African-American and Latino
communities by eliminating the racial
academic achievement gap
•Provides pre-K through college
educational services to help students
achieve success
•Fathers are encouraged to take their
children to school on the first day of
school
•Have hosted over 200 Million Father
Marches in various U.S. Cities
National Compadres
Network
Hacienda Heights, California
•Helps to strengthen, rebalance, and
redevelop the traditional Latino
extended family system
•Encourages and supports positive
involvement of males in families and
the community
•Engages Latino men in nurturing,
guidance and development of their
children, families, and communities
www.nationalcompadresnetwork.com
National Fatherhood
Initiative
Gaithersburg, Maryland
•Works to improve the well being of
children by increasing responsible
father involvement
•Develops leaders of fatherhood
initiatives through training and
technical assistance
•NFI’s Golden Dads campaign rewards
everyday fathers for spending quality
time with their children
•FatherSOURCE administers NFI’s
workshops to reach fathers and assist
local organizations in operating
effective fatherhood programs
National Partnership for
Community Leadership
Washington, DC
www.nplcstrongfamilies.com
•Strengthens the capacity to work with
low-income parents and youth
•Committed to reducing child poverty
through building strong family
engagement
•Offers assistance with grant proposal
writing to fund programs to help
strengthen families
•Offers training and technical assistance
on a variety of services including:
working with men and fathers,
relationship building skills, family and
fatherhood forums, and parenting
education.
Strong Fathers –
Strong Families
Fort Worth, Texas
•Training and facilitation organization
focused on strengthening children by
strengthening fathers and families
•Conducts training for campus or
district teams, conduct regional and
state workshops, and
•Conducts training for PTA regional or
state conventions on effective father
involvement
•Works with over 10,000 fathers per
year
www.strongfathers.com
WATCH D.O.G.S.
WATCH (Dads of Great Students)
Shawnee Mission, Kansas
www.fathers.com
•Program of the National Center of
Fathering
•Focused on prevention of violence in
schools
•Provides unobtrusive presence of
fathers and father-figures in schools
and adds enhanced sense of security for
the school
•Serve as positive role models for
students
•Men gain awareness of positive impact
on students academic performance,
self-esteem, and social behavior
Steps
Next
Your
Engaging Men in Your Community!
PTA Case Studies
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Questions?
(800) 307-4PTA (4782)
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