{"id":518,"date":"2013-02-25T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T19:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/?p=518"},"modified":"2021-07-29T20:46:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:46:31","slug":"today-jeffery-leving-addresses-the-national-fatherhood-families-conference-on-incarcerated-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatherhood-edu.org\/index.php\/today-jeffery-leving-addresses-the-national-fatherhood-families-conference-on-incarcerated-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: Jeffery Leving Addresses the National Fatherhood &#038; Families Conference on Incarcerated Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 26<sup>th<\/sup>, 2013, nationally respected fathers\u2019 rights attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dadsrights.com\/\">Jeffery M. Leving<\/a> will address the National Fatherhood &amp; Families Conference on the rights of incarcerated fathers. The conference is an annual event sponsored by the Fathers &amp; Families Coalition of America, a national organization devoted to the needs of fathers and children.<\/p>\n<p>The conference, now in its 14<sup>th<\/sup> year, will be held in San Francisco over four days, with important figures from politics, government, healthcare, and education giving addresses on fatherhood issues. Mr. Leving was the conference key note speaker in in 2008, and this fall President Barack Obama awarded the National Call to Service Award to the fathers\u2019 rights attorney for his work with the coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren are the future of our society, and incarcerated fathers have children of whom this is no less true,\u201d Leving notes. \u201cImprisoned fathers are responsible for most of the 1.5 million minor children of incarcerated parents. We need to break the cycle of criminality through positive father-child involvement because the most reliable predictor of crime is neither poverty nor race, but growing up fatherless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leving will present with Washington, D.C. Judge Milton Lee on the \u201cFathering Court Initiative\u201d a program that helps men with criminal histories reduce child support arrears during imprisonment, secure fathers\u2019 rights to reconnect with their children, and find employment after their incarceration. The program supports formerly incarcerated fathers with a year of fatherhood education classes to help them become strong co-parents, which greatly reduces the likelihood of repeat criminal offenses.<\/p>\n<p>It also diverts men with lesser offenses from the prison system entirely if they commit to graduate from the program.<\/p>\n<p>The program has enjoyed impressive success with the men it has helped thus far. This fall it received a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ash.harvard.edu\/Home\/Programs\/Innovations-in-Government\/Awards\/Bright-Ideas\">Bright Idea<\/a> award from Harvard University, and the Justice Department will initiate a national program with \u201cFathering Court\u201d as the blueprint.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffery M. Leving first became nationally known as fathers\u2019 rights attorney working on cases involving Elian Gonzalez and a host of well-known athletes and politicians. He is the founder of the charity, The Fatherhood Educational Institute, which developed the pilot program for incarcerated fathers which \u201cFathering Court\u201d models. For more information on Jeffery M. Leving\u2019s pursuit of justice, contact the Fatherhood Educational Institute (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatherhood-edu.org\/\">www.fatherhood-edu.org<\/a>) at (312) 795-9060.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 26th, 2013, nationally respected fathers\u2019 rights attorney Jeffery M. 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