November Third Thursday Webinar
Fathering Matters:
Barriers, Opportunities, and the Importance of Father Engagement
Thursday, November 19
at 12pm on Zoom
What to Expect
Join us for an important conversation about the barriers, opportunities, and importance of father engagement.
Nucha Isarowong, PhD, LICSW, IMH-E®, Director of the Advanced Clinical Training (ACT) Program at the Barnard Center for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at the University of Washington, will join us for a powerful exploration of how fathering matters.
The contributions of fathers to their children's development are well documented and often misconstrued, marginalized, or unacknowledged, leaving male parents without appropriate or adequate resources and/or responses to their needs.
Despite the evidence on the importance of fathers and father-figures in the lives of children, as co-parents and as part of a broader caregiving system along with mothers, mother-figures, grandparents, and other parenting and caregiving-figures, policies, practices, and programmatic changes have been slow to catch up.
This presentation reflects on the importance of father in the lives of their children as well as in the services with and for children and explores the barriers and opportunities to engage fathers in IECMH services.
Meet our Presenter
Nucha Isarowong, PhD, LICSW, IMH-E®
Director of the Advanced Clinical Training Program | University of Washington
Nucha Isarowong, PhD, LICSW, IMH-E® is Director of the Advanced Clinical Training (ACT) Program at the Barnard Center for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at the University of Washington where he works to expand, diversify, train, and retain/sustain the infant and early childhood mental health workforce by centering relationships, experiences of people and communities targeted for oppression, and principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Nucha is a ZERO TO THREE Fellow (2012-2013) and serves as a board member for Profectum. He is a facilitator for the Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (Tenets) Initiative.
Nucha is a father, a husband, and a queer-identified genX’er who grew up at the tail end of the Cold War and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He is an immigrant, born in Thailand, raised in the Midwest, and hold ancestral connections to the first peoples of Southeast Asia and Chinese migrants to those lands. His family currently resides as guests on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people currently called Seattle, WA.
