The Short List Reunion Course For graduates of any fatherhood program
Start Stop Keep

The session your graduates come back for.

Your fathers finish the program and go home with a handbook. The Short List Reunion Course gives them a reason to come back: one night, one idea, and his own Short List to walk out with.

Book a 30-minute walkthrough See the nine sessions
Session 1 title slide, Half the Time, Twice the Parent, projected at the front of the room
Session 1, on the screen at the front of the room.
Format90 minutesOr 60, or 120
Cohort8 to 20 menIn person or virtual
Structure9 sessionsEach one stands alone
BuyOne, a lane, or all ninePer facilitator, per class
Three words

That's the whole thing, and it's the same three words in every session.

Start
Something worth beginning.
Stop
Something worth quitting.
Keep
Something already working that you want more of.

He decides all three himself. He says what he'll start doing out loud, and he can pass. Nothing he writes is collected.

The gap it fills

You already graduate men. You don't have anything to invite them back to.

Fatherhood curricula are built for a man who hasn't started yet. Across the 21 relationship curricula Child Trends compared, not one is a single session, and the shortest is four.

It picks up where your curriculum ends.It doesn't replace 24:7 Dad, Nurturing Fathers, InsideOut Dad or anything else.
A man can come once.Nothing assumes he was there last month.
No book to buy.Nobody reads anything, in the room or at home.
No new staff work.No certification or new intake question.
How a session runs · 90-minute version
Welcome5
Teach25
Write20
Talk20
Commit15
Close5

He listens, writes on his own page in silence, reads it to one other man, then commits. He leaves with his Short List: something to start, something to stop and something to keep. For the thing he'll start doing, he writes down the day he'll begin.

What your program gets for each session

Everything the room needs.

Facilitator Kit run sheet, Session 1
The run sheet from the Session 1 Facilitator Kit.
The nine sessions

Take one session, a lane or all nine, in any mix.

Two lanes are federal Responsible Fatherhood areas, so you can buy the one you report on.

Responsible parenting

Federal: Responsible Parenting
Half the Time, Twice the ParentOne planned hour with one kid
They're Always WatchingOne habit he'll catch, and the repair
Do It AgainOne ritual with his kids, on repeat

Personal development

Ours. No federal area.
Have We Met?Who he is now, and one thing that fills his tank
Just Say NoThe hill he'll die on, and the three he'll give up
The Empty HouseOne thing just for himself, made a standing slot

Healthy relationships

Federal: Healthy Marriage
Say the Good ThingOne specific appreciation, on a set day
Stop Keeping ScoreOne grievance turned into one proposal
The End of Mind-ReadingOne weekly huddle, every chore given an owner
Welcome back

"Every man in this room already finished a fatherhood program. That's the only reason you're here."

The first line of every session. This isn't that program again, and nobody is going to make him repeat it.

Slide: Welcome back. Every man in this room already finished a fatherhood program.
Works with your curriculum

Your men just finished a program. Here's what comes next.

Alignment guide After 24:7 Dad His checklist, picked back up, in the session shape your facilitators already run. Read how our course aligns Alignment guide After InsideOut Dad For men home after release, when a reunion night can actually happen. Read how our course aligns Alignment guide After Nurturing Fathers Your 13 weeks end. Our sessions are for the year after graduation, not a 14th week. Read how our course aligns

Run something else? See how we align with any core curriculum. Curriculum names belong to their owners, and none of them endorses this course.

Outcomes

One number, on the night.

How many men leave with one thing they want to start doing, in their own words, and the day they'll begin, out of the men in the room.

Nobody has run this at scale yet, so we set a target floor and won't quote anything above it until pilots report.

6 in 10 Our target floor: men who leave with one thing to start doing and the day they'll begin.
Outcome Log
The facilitator writes down what each man says he'll start doing and when, as he says it. That's where the 6 in 10 comes from.
Fidelity Log
A two-minute page showing what actually ran, beat by beat, so your funder sees the session was delivered as designed.
Your own measures
Already run a pre/post or a retrospective survey? We'll tie the reunion session into it, or help you compare graduates who come back with those who don't. We'll work with your site on how to measure it.
Adapts to fit your dads, three ways

Every man sees himself in the room.

1 Your room
Child support and the courts Home from jail or prison Home from treatment Distance and rural Work and schedules General
2 His home Two tracks on one sheet, and any amount of time with his kids reads as normal.
3 Married or not Relationship sessions are about the adult he's raising a kid with.
Next step

A 30-minute walkthrough of one session.

For you and anyone on your team who'd decide. Or email for a quote for your program.

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