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The City of New York Department of Youth and Community Development Small Purchase Curriculum for the Fatherhood Program PIN: 26012FATHSMP January 2011 The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) is seeking a vendor to support its Fatherhood Program through provision of a parenting curriculum. It is anticipated that the vendor would supply the curriculum materials and provide training with follow-up to staff of approximately ten fatherhood programs expected to begin July 1, 2011. Background DYCD’s Fatherhood Program began in 2002 to address the needs of non-custodial fathers aged 16 and over. Three separate groups are targeted: young fathers 16 to 24 years of age, fathers over 24 years of age, and fathers with prior involvement in the criminal justice system. Nationally, as many as one-third of all children live apart from their biological fathers. In New York City, an even higher proportion of Black (54 percent) and Latino (43 percent) children grow up in households with no father present. Young fathers and older fathers face unique individual barriers to full involvement in their children’s lives. In the case of teenaged fathers, their emotional state is complicated by the need to reconcile the conflicting roles of adolescent and father and assume the responsibilities of adulthood before they are sufficiently mature. Less likely than older men to have graduated from high school, young fathers may be focused on efforts to complete schooling or find entry-level employment. By contrast, older fathers may have long-term hardships such as chronic unemployment or homelessness, compounded by poor health or substance abuse. Both young and old fathers may have difficulty resolving conflicts, which increases the difficulty of reuniting with family members. In addition, more than half of the 1.4 million adults incarcerated in state and federal prisons are parents of children under the age of 18. Wi