Keynotes & panels
Introduce practitioner and lived perspectives to a professional audience.
Training & Speaking
Training That Strengthens Practice. Conversations That Move Systems.
Professional learning and facilitated conversations for community organizations, public agencies, health and education teams, family-support professionals, and cross-sector audiences.
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Interactive workshops
Help staff and leaders discuss practice and apply what they learn.
Facilitation
Structure stakeholder discussions, retreats, and strategic conversations.
English or Spanish; virtual or in-person delivery, subject to agreement. Language, format, and included materials are confirmed in the proposal.
Six topic areas
Topics for Professional Practice
Select a topic to review its audience and proposed objectives. Sessions are tailored to the organizational context.
Father & Male Caregiver Engagement
- Audience
- Family-support, health, education, child-support, court, and community professionals; fatherhood and Head Start teams.
- Challenge
- Eligibility and attendance do not necessarily mean fathers experience meaningful engagement.
Proposed learning objectives
- Distinguish attendance from meaningful engagement.
- Identify barriers fathers and male caregivers encounter.
- Develop questions for improving day-to-day staff practice.
Practical application: Use an engagement review to examine outreach, communication, and support for fathers navigating family systems.
From Parent Participation to Meaningful Partnership
- Audience
- Program leaders, parent engagement staff, parent partners, and governance bodies.
- Challenge
- Parent input is collected without a clear connection to decisions.
Proposed learning objectives
- Distinguish participation, leadership, and partnership.
- Identify decision points where parents can influence practice.
- Define supports for participation and a clear feedback process.
Practical application: Map one organizational decision and identify how parents can help shape and review it.
Lived Expertise in Organizational Decisions
- Audience
- Agency leaders, advisory groups, practitioners, and community stakeholders.
- Challenge
- Lived perspectives are invited without a defined role in shaping organizational choices.
Proposed learning objectives
- Identify meaningful roles for lived expertise.
- Examine barriers to participation and influence.
- Develop a process that explains how input is used.
Practical application: Review an advisory or planning structure for clarity of roles, participation supports, and influence.
Fatherhood Engagement as Upstream Prevention
- Audience
- Prevention, child welfare, early childhood, and family-support professionals.
- Challenge
- Father engagement is treated separately from prevention and family-strengthening work.
Proposed learning objectives
- Explore connections between father engagement and family support.
- Identify opportunities to include fathers earlier in prevention practice.
- Distinguish practice-informed ideas and societal cost estimates from demonstrated program outcomes.
Practical application: Connect father engagement priorities to the organization’s existing prevention and family-support strategy.
Welcoming Organizational Culture & Staff Practice
- Audience
- Frontline teams, supervisors, managers, and organizational learning leaders.
- Challenge
- An intention to welcome fathers does not always appear in daily interactions or organizational environments.
Proposed learning objectives
- Recognize signals in language, communications, and environments.
- Include fathers’ perspectives when reviewing practice.
- Identify a practical change the team can implement and review.
Practical application: Examine an intake interaction, communication, or service environment and define a change to test.
Cross-Sector Collaboration & Systems Improvement
- Audience
- Coalitions, public agencies, community partners, and interdisciplinary project teams.
- Challenge
- Different institutional responsibilities make shared work difficult to coordinate.
Proposed learning objectives
- Map shared priorities and distinct responsibilities.
- Include leadership, frontline, and lived perspectives.
- Clarify next steps, implementation milestones, and review methods.
Practical application: Develop a shared agenda and clarify how partners will contribute to, document, and review the work.
Training & Recorded Presentations
Annual New Jersey Child Support Training Institute
Completed presentation for child-support professionals.
Presentation RecordVicinage I Local Training Program
A distinct completed local training presentation.
Presentation RecordProfessional Learning in Puerto Rico
Completed co-facilitation with Fathers & Families Coalition of America for Region II Head Start Association.
Collaborative EngagementSpanish Parent Committee Training
Published introduction to Head Start parent committees and Policy Council governance. Enrollment and terms are provided by the Institute for Childhood Preparedness.
View the Published CourseCentering Fathers’ Mental Health as a Core Prevention Strategy
Michael contributed practitioner and lived perspectives to Social Current’s February 25, 2026 webinar.
Watch the Recorded Webinar · Official Session Listing
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