Haji Shearer is Director of the Fatherhood Initiative at the Massachusetts' Children's Trust. He leads the campaign to increase father involvement and cooperative parenting in 25 Healthy Families programs across the state and to strengthen the statewide Fathers and Families Network (FFN). The FFN provides ongoing training to support practitioners who work with fathers and families. Haji founded the fathers' program at the Family Nurturing Center in Dorchester that continues to serve men in Boston's urban communities. Earlier in his career, he spent six years providing crisis intervention servi...