Leading Minnesota's campaign for healthy fatherhood.

The seventh annual Minnesota Fatherhood Summit and the 5th annual Strong Foundations Conference were offered collaboratively as one joint conference in January 2010. The conference theme focused on the healthy engagement of fathers. The conference aimed to strengthen the knowledge, skills, strategies and alliances of those who help expectant families, infants, toddlers, mothers, fathers, other caregivers, and all communities to build a strong foundation for healthy development. The conference offered the opportunity for in-depth, research-based, practical training as well as exposure to a wider variety of topics from different fields.

Keynote presentations are available here:

• Dr. James McHale, Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of South Florida and author of Charting the Bumpy Road of Coparenthood

• Beyond the Dyad: Understanding How Coparenting Dynamics Affect Infant and Toddler Development (kenote session, pdf)
  

• Dr. Kyle Pruett, Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and author of Fatherneed

• The Paternal Presence: Its Unique Role and Power in the Lives of Young Children (keynote session, pdf)
• The Power of Early Experience in Development (workshop session, pdf)
  

• Vicki Turetsky, Commissioner, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Child Support Enforcement

• From Dollars to Sense: Lessons from Child Support in How to Support Fathers and Families with Children Birth to Three (keynote session, audio file, 38 minutes)