{"id":390201,"date":"2020-12-01T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T08:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/?p=390201"},"modified":"2020-12-01T03:03:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T08:03:12","slug":"childcare-education-institute-offers-no-cost-online-course-on-supporting-fathers-and-promoting-father-involvement-in-the-ece-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/childcare-education-institute-offers-no-cost-online-course-on-supporting-fathers-and-promoting-father-involvement-in-the-ece-program\/","title":{"rendered":"ChildCare Education Institute Offers No-Cost Online Course on Supporting Fathers and Promoting Father Involvement in the ECE Program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ATLANTA, GA, Dec. 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ChildCare Education Institute\u00ae (CCEI), an online child care training provider dedicated exclusively to the early care and education workforce, offers FAM101: Supporting Fathers and Promoting Father Involvement in the ECE Program <\/i>as a no-cost trial course to new CCEI users December 1-31, 2020.<\/p>\n

Many professionals in education, counseling, law enforcement, child protective services, and other fields will agree that there is a fathering crisis in many American communities today. Simply put, too many children are growing up without consistent, positive male role models; too many children are fatherless and the results show in the crime, health, and poverty statistics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ECE professionals are concerned first and foremost with ensuring a child\u2019s wellbeing. Research shows unequivocally that children benefit from having highly involved mothers and fathers; therefore, ECE professionals should do what they can to get both parents involved in the program whenever possible and appropriate, whether or not the parents live together or even communicate regularly with one another.<\/p>\n

Today, an average father in a two-parent household is spending 250 percent more time on child care and household chores.\u00a0 It is also interesting to note that the share of \u201cstay-at-home\u201d fathers has nearly doubled just since 1989. Today, 7 percent of fathers report that they care for house and children at home full-time according to statistics gathered from various sources such as Pew Research Center, Father Involvement Research Alliance (FIRA), and the National Center for Fathering (NCF).<\/p>\n

What impact does a father have, exactly? Research shows that the presence of an involved, positive father in the home reduces risks related to:<\/p>\n