PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release'
F.A.C.T. Experience Graduation Ceremony at SCI-Phoenix
Saturday, March 2, 2019, from 5:45 P.M. to 9:00 p.m.
Collegeville, PA (USA) — 21 February 2019 — Heralded as a Global Model' for eradicating Fatherlessness and Intergenerational Incarceration, the "school-to-prison pipeline", and violence which marginalizes children, families and communities — the SCI Phoenix Father And Children Together (F.A.C.T. Experience) has announced that approximately fifteen (15) Fathers who have successfully completed the intensive fourteen (14) week two-tiered parenting training sessions will be honored at a graduation ceremony. The graduation ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, March 2, 2019, @ 5:45 p.m. at SCI-Phoenix, which is located at 1200 Mokychic Road, Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426. F.A.C.T. is the brainchild of members of the United Community Action Network (U-CAN), a brilliant and purpose-driven outreach organization at SCI-Phoenix. After conducting extensive research, the gentlemen designed the two-tiered parenting workshop that helps Fathers and Children create bonds and builds strong relationships.
First, parenting workshops that are facilitated over a seven (7) week period that the Fathers must complete. Second, a six (6) week session, during which their child visits them in a one-onone therapeutic integration between Father and Child occurs along with joint pa?ticipation in workshops designed to enhance the bonding process and build a strong Father-Child relationship. Both the children and fathers learn things about each other, i.e. favorite colors, foods, movies, and subjects in school. Simultaneously, the F.A.C.T. Experience moves Mothers into the FatherChild bonding and relationship building equation by equipping them with parenting and coparenting skills. The fourteenth, and final week, is spent honoring the Fathers who have successfully completed the experience. The Fathers, Children, Mothers, Family Members, and members of the F.A.C.T. Experience's Internal and External Teams, along with invited guests from the community, attend a graduation ceremony, during which all participants are presented with certificates that herald their successful completion of the experience.
The F.A.C.T. Experience not only creates a bond between Fathers and their Children, and helps them build a strong relationship with each other, it also creates a bond among the Fathers who participate in the intensive parenting training sessions and workshops that evolves into a brotherhood. Mothers participating in the workshops and parenting training sessions develop a
friendship — a friendship that evolves into a sisterhood. Children participating in the workshops create friendships as well with their peers. These friendships and relationships continue to develop and grow over time. Fathers who have successfully completed the F.A.C.T. Experience and eventually return to their families upon their release and continue — on an expansive level — to positively shape the minds and souls of their children. They also return to their communities with a new vision for themselves, their children, families, and communities. Even the Mothers come away with strong parenting, co-parenting, and communication skills, while the Children learn to excel academically, socially, and to change their behavior — they are less likely to be disruptive in the classroom, at home, or in the community.
The F.A.C.T. Experience, which has received local, national, and international media attention, is endorsed by, among others, the United States International Men's Day Team (http://www.usainternationalmensday.blogspot.com) and IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD@ a quarterly international Fatherhood and Men's Issues Journal (http://globalfatherhooddialogue.blogspot.com).
For further information about the SCI-Phoenix Fathers And Children Together Experience and/or its March 2, 2019 graduation ceremony, please contact Mr. Norman Williams, via, email at normwillia@pa.gov.
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