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Adjunct Faculty

Fernando Mederos, M.Ed., Ed.D.

Fernando Mederos has served as Director of Fatherhood Engagement at the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families since 2006. His mission is to increase the Department’s capacity to engage positively with fathers in a way that is strength-based, culturally competent, sensitive to safety and domestic violence issues, and promotes healthy, nurturing, and respectful engagement with children and partners. At DCF he develops policy on fatherhood engagement, works in partnership with social workers to create positive gender-based models of practice with fathers, trains staff, organizes and leads area office fatherhood engagement leadership teams, and has drafted the Department’s strategic plan for fatherhood engagement in collaboration with many partners throughout the agency. He also partners with fathers who have been involved with DCF in training and fatherhood engagement advocacy.

Dr. Mederos is a practitioner (consultant, writer and trainer), with a strong background in domestic violence and working with men who batter. He focuses on identifying culturally-based values, models and practices that are effective in working with men and that promote respectful and egalitarian relationships between men and women in diverse cultures. He has consulted with the U.S. Department of Justice (OVW), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and organizations funded by OVW to provide technical assistance to federal grantees throughout the U.S. He is co-chair of the Board of the National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (ALIANZA).

Courses:
SW 598-01 Leadership Development in Anti-violence Work: The Susan Schechter Social Action Seminar

Adjunct Faculty