Family, opportunity, resilience, grit, engagement - fatherhood (kansas forge fatherhood) - the university of kansas school of social welfare and cornerstones of care will implement the kansas forge…

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. a $1.499998 million Cooperative Agreement on September 30, 2025, under the Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants program (CFDA 93.086) to implement the Kansas FORGE Fatherhood program.

The University of Kansas School of Social Welfare and Cornerstones of Care will deliver evidence-based fatherhood programming across five eastern Kansas counties (Atchison, Douglas, Johnson, Leavenworth, and Wyandotte). The program will serve 350 fathers over the five-year period of performance through September 29, 2030, providing 24 hours of skills-based workshops covering healthy relationships and marriage, co-parenting, parenting practices, and child involvement. Participants receive supplemental financial education via the Money Habitudes tool and individualized case management connecting them to community resources. The curriculum aims to build parenting and co-parenting skills, increase father-child engagement, and improve economic stability and mobility.

Cornerstones of Care, the sub-recipient (sub-award 90ZJ0128-FY2026-029 awarded February 3, 2026), supplies Program Manager and Financial Officer personnel, participates in hiring facilitators and case managers, provides ongoing program oversight and delivery support, develops community partnerships and referral relationships, leads recruitment and retention efforts, and shares performance data with the University of Kansas and local evaluators. Work is performed in Lawrence, Kansas.

Family, opportunity, resilience, grit, engagement - fatherhood (kansas forge fatherhood) - the university of kansas school of social welfare and cornerstones of care will implement the kansas forge fatherhood program in five counties in eastern kansas (atchison, douglas, johnson, leavenworth, and wyandotte). The project will deliver the evidence-based supporting father involvement curriculum as its primary workshop, supplemented by the money habitudes financial tool and individualized case management. Fathers will receive 24 hours of skills-based workshops covering healthy relationships/marriage, CO-parenting, parenting practices, and child involvement, along with financial education and case management services connecting them to community resources. The program will serve 350 fathers over the five-year project period, helping them gain skills to healthily parent and CO-parent, increase engagement with their children, and improve their economic stability and mobility.