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WHAT WE DO
HOW YOU CAN HELP
The Fatherhood Educational Institute’s mission is to promote positive father involvement and improve the lives of children in disadvantaged communities. The organization was created in 1999 to support low-income fathers, incarcerated fathers, and at-risk fathers and children who would be unable to find help otherwise. The organization’s work is focused on increasing fatherhood involvement in poverty-stricken communities and reducing the incidence of father absence.
Visit: Learn more about what FEI does, has done and hopes to do at our website, fatherhood-edu.org.
FEI addresses the lack of resources for fathers, specifically indigent and incarcerated fathers. For example, a father named Maurice, who’s featured in a video on the FEI website, was incarcerated. Without virtual visitation, Maurice missed out on many of the crucial years that connect a father and daughter. His teenage daughter confesses to the hardships of growing up without her father’s presence and how virtual visitation would have helped prevent them. FEI advocated for virtual visitation, which has now been implemented in Illinois prisons.
Father absence can have a horrific effect on children, as shown by the statistics on pages 46-47 of founder Jeffery Leving’s book, Fathers’ Rights. Children with absent fathers consistently score lower than the norm on reading and math tests. In addition, they have higher rates of asthma, headaches, speech defects and psychological problems. Seventy percent of kids in juvenile detention grew up in a fatherless environment.
COMPLETELY VOLUNTEER-BASED
FOUNDED IN 1999
At this time, FEI is focused on establishing a scholarship fund for fathers who need a course at a community college or trade school in order to help qualify for a job to support their families. Social icon
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Donate: We welcome donations at fatherhood-edu.org/index.php/ donate-to-fatherhood. Share: Please visit our social media pages on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and share them. FEI founder Jeffery M. Leving is photographed with FEI board members Wayne Halick (left) and James M. Hagler (right) after they delivered informative presentations at the 2020 Illinois Council on Responsible Fatherhood symposium.
Our volunteers visit men who are locked up, because we want them to come out of prison prepared to lead healthy, productive lives and to create previously unimaginable bonds with their children.
WEBSITE fatherhood-edu.org
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Join: The FEI is all-volunteer. If you’d like to help, please visit fatherhoodedu.org/index.php/volunteer-in-chicago.
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The FEI vision is a world where all fathers are involved in the lives of their families, even if they need help to overcome obstacles.
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Jeffery M. Leving Founder & President-emeritus
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