How to Help

Some of the things that will help homeless single fathers and their children are:

Identifying homeless single fathers with children as a disadvantaged group in need, in local community planning

All further funding and construction of shelter and resources will depend on whether your City's Comprehensive Plan includes documentation of the presence and the needs of homeless single fathers with children.

Things that you can do to assure this are:

Take five minutes to write to city officials, funders and service providers.
Donate some of your own time to assist at a local soup kitchen or other homeless resource. Help homeless fathers with children write to city officials about their needs.
Get involved with your city's planning process. This will be long, laborious and boring most of the time, but that's the price you pay for power.

Attention, Attention

Problems that are ignored don't get solved. The first step to this solution is bringing the invisible families out of the shadows.

Things that you can do to assist this are:

Mention this issue at church, while talking with your neighbors, or in any conversation when family values or other social issues come up.

Write to newspapers and other media about the neglected families with homeless single fathers.

Help homeless single fathers and their children be heard speaking for themselves. Give someone a ride to a city council meeting or a polling place; access to a computer to send email to Congress; a stamp to send a letter to an editor. Respect the confidentiality of anyone who does not want to be named, because they could suffer real consequences if you don't; stand up for anyone who does come forward to speak, and protect them from harassment.

Link to us. A selection of banners and buttons is provided on this page.

Direct action

While working on greater help in the future, don't discount any little bit you can do for a single individual now.

Link to Us

The following buttons and banners may be used by anyone seeking to promote support for homeless single fathers with children. Please copy the graphic to your own server, and link to our main page, http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/activism/homelessness/forfathers/

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Invisible Families / Homeless Fathers with Children / Help Them Be Strong
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Invisible Families / Homeless Fathers with Children / Help Them Be Strong
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<A HREF="http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/activism/homelessness/forfathers/"><IMG SRC="homebutton.gif" WIDTH="80" HEIGHT="80" ALT="Invisible Families / Homeless Fathers with Children / Help Them Be Strong" BORDER="0"></A>

Animated banner, white background. 8K
<A HREF="http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/activism/homelessness/forfathers/"><IMG SRC="images/fatherbanner.gif" WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" ALT="Invisible Families / Homeless Fathers with Children"></A>

Semi-animated banner: Cycles only once. White background. 8K
<A HREF="http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/activism/homelessness/forfathers/"><IMG SRC="images/fatherone.gif" WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" ALT="Invisible Families / Homeless Fathers with Children"></A>

Small animated banner, white background. 3K
<A HREF="http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/activism/homelessness/forfathers/"><IMG SRC="images/fatherbadge.gif" WIDTH="234" HEIGHT="30" ALT="Invisible Families / Homeless Fathers with Children"></A>

Small semi-animated banner: Cycles only once. White background. 3K
<A HREF="http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/activism/homelessness/forfathers/"><IMG SRC="images/fathertwo.gif" WIDTH="234" HEIGHT="30" ALT="Invisible Families / Homeless Fathers with Children"></A>

468x60 stationary banner, colored background. 13K
<A HREF="http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/activism/homelessness/forfathers/"><IMG SRC="images/fatherbtwo.gif" WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" ALT="Homeless Fathers with Children"></A>

400x40 stationary banner, colored background. 7K
<A HREF="http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/activism/homelessness/forfathers/"><IMG SRC="images/fathersbtwo.gif" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="40" ALT="Homeless Fathers with Children"></A>

Animated button: "Homeless Fathers with Children" 3K
<A HREF="http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/activism/homelessness/forfathers/"><IMG SRC="images/fbutton.gif" WIDTH="88" HEIGHT="31" ALT="Help Fathers"></A>

Non-animated button:, says simply "Fathers" 2K
<A HREF="http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/activism/homelessness/forfathers/"><IMG SRC="images/fathers.gif" WIDTH="88" HEIGHT="31" ALT="Help Fathers"></A>

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