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key aspect of the Initiative is a certification process for fatherhood programs in the state, which ensures consistency and quality of service delivery to low - income, noncustodial fathers and their families, and recognizes fatherhood programs that have demonstrated exemplary practice.19 The process also allows certified fatherhood programs to offer the State - Owed Arrearage Adjustment Program for eligible participants.20 Connecticut's Initiative has
established a quasi-experimental design system to evaluate the fatherhood programs it helps to coordinate.21 The evaluation collected
demographic information on the almost 4,000 participants who enrolled in the Promoting Fatherhood Project from 2006 to 2011.22 The evaluation found that fathers in the program reported needing assistance in education, job training, housing, outstanding child support, parenting time, co-parenting, and parenting skills.