Families Offering Children Unfailing Support (FOCUS) Fatherhood Program: Changing Child Welfare through Child Support and Parenting Skills
The Fathers Offering Children Unfailing Support (FOCUS) program serves fathers referred by Child Protective Services and the Attorney General’s Office. The goal of the authors of this paper was to investigate changes in fathers’ report of parenting involvement and fathers’ instrumental support through child support payments through two separate studies of community samples.