Public Policy

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="04b785a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Healthy Fathering Collaborative</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Healthy Fathering Collaborative"><U><B>home</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> <B> </B><A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Programs for Fathers"><U><B>Programs for Fathers</B></U></A><B>    </B><A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Calendar"><U><B>Calendar </B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Local Statistics"><U><B>Local Statistics</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links"><U><B>Related Links</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><U><B>About Us </B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="formbuddydemo.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U><B>Contact Us</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="04cd2b03.jpg"> <div> <I>Public Policy</I></div> <div> We will post local,national and international news of interest to fathers and fatherhood practitioners here.</div> <bR> <div> Have you seen a news item that we should post here?  </div> <div> Please send it to us: <A HREF="mailto:info@fathering.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@fathering.net"><U>i</U></A><A HREF="mailto:info@fathering.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@fathering.net"><U>nfo@neofathering.net</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B>Ohio Fatherhood Commission Update</B></div> <bR> <div> On January 24, 2007 the Ohio Fatherhood Commission Transition Agency Review Committee delivered a report to Ohio Governor Ted Strickland outlining a series of recommendations, including the re-engagement of the Ohio Fatherhood Commission and a budget of $20 million per year in TANF dollars to fund fatherhood training and programming throughout the state.  The Committee was chaired by Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones, the original architect of the Ohio Fatherhood Commission.  The full report is available here: <a href="HTMLobj-457/Ohio_Commission_on_Fatherhood_Strickland-Fisher_Transition_Agency_Review_Committee_Report_revised_full_version.pdf"><u>click here to download report</u> </a>   The executive summary is available here:   <a href="HTMLobj-458/2007_Final_Report_-_Ohio_Commission_on_Fatherhood_Transition_Committee.pdf"><u>click here for summary</u> </a>  </div> <bR> <div> Please review the report and send us your comments.  click here to comment  </div> <bR> <div> All comments will be compiled to shared with the Review Committee and the Fatherhood Commission</div> <div> <B>_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Ohio Practitioners' Network for Fathers and Families is pleased to release our Public Policy Agenda</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >.  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> The Agenda outlines public policy issues affecting the lives of fathers and families in Ohio in 5 general areas:  Child Support; Job Training and Employment; Welfare Reform/TANF; Fathers, Families and Professional Support; and Incarceration and Reentry.  An abridged version of the agenda was published in the  <a href="HTMLobj-514/OPNFF_Newsletter_Fall_2006.pdf"><u>Fall 2006 OPNFF newsletter</u> </a>  </div> <div> .  </div> <div> The full version is available here:   <a href="HTMLobj-516/OPNFF_Public_Policy_Agenda_full_version.pdf"><u>click here to download the Public Policy Agenda</u> </a>  </div> <bR> <div> We welcome comments on the issues outlined in the agenda.  This is a living document that will continue to evolve and change in response to the dynamic public policy environment in Ohio and Nationally.  <A HREF=".htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=""><U><B>Click here to comment.</B></U></A></div> <div> ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <div> <B>Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2006 (this act was re-introduced in June, 2007)</B></div> <bR> <div> Senators Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Barack Obama (D-IL) introduced the <I>Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2006</I> (S. 3607), on June 29, 2006 and re-introduced it in June of 2007.  According to comments made by Senator Obama upon introducing the bill, it will “provide support for fathers who are trying to do the right thing in making child-support payments by providing them with job training and job opportunities and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit. It also stops penalizing marriage in the tax code, and makes sure that children and families, not the government, receive every penny of child support."  A summary of the bill is available here:  <a href="HTMLobj-517/Obama-Bayh_2007.doc"><u>click here to download</u> </a>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>