"You can't stop us on the road to freedom, You can't stop us for our eyes can see, Men of insight, Men of granite, Knights in armor bent on chivalry", VAN MORRISON (Tupelo Honey).
FaFNY President: Mr. James H. Hays Jr.
in 1995 lobbying legislators for Shared Parenting (Back row, 3rd from
right),
in 1998,
Jim Hays with Author Warren Farrell at the On-Step Institute Fatherhood
Conference,
in 2004 at FaFNY's LEAD in Albany, NY, Jim Hays receives recognition
from ACFC Executive Director Mike McCormick
for his contributions to shared parenting and children and families.
Mr. Hays, born in 1957, was raised in Schenectady, NY and is the son of a career military father (James Hays) who was highly decorated and served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam and a community activist mother (Dolores Hays) who was a founder of Schenectady United Neighborhoods (SUN). Mr. Hays is the father of two (now grown) daughters which he has been separated from since 1999 due to Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS).
Mr. Hays is currently an Environmental Conservation Police Officer with the NYS DEC and is assigned to Saratoga County and lives in Rexford, NY. He has previously served in Schenectady County, Rensselaer County, Suffolk and Nassau Counties and was an Investigator with the Governors (Cuomo) Long Island Solid Waste Task Force. He has served as a NYS Park Police Officer, Centre Island Police Officer and as a University Police Officer at SUNY Oswego and SUNY Morrisville. He was a Military Police officer with the 502nd MP Co., "Hells Enforcers" with General Patton's 2nd Armored Division, "Hell on Wheels" and also served as liaison with the Killeen, TX Police Department. Mr. Hays has attended three police academies; Military Police School, University Police Academy and the 8th Basic Academy for En-Con Officers in 1989 graduating second in his class.
Mr. Hays is currently an Executive Board Member with the Agency Law Enforcement Services Unit (ALES) with Council 82, AFSCME representing NYS University, NYS Park and NYS En-Con Police and is also an Executive Board Member with Local 1873 En-Con Police, Council 82 representing Environmental Conservation Officers and Investigators and is the En-Con Police Conference of NY (PCNY) representative. Mr. Hays is a member of the En-Con Police PBA, the NYS Conservation Officers Association, NYS Conservation Council, NYS Rifle and Pistol Association (NYSRPA), National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Sportsmen's Club of Clifton Park. He has been a long time union activist and supporter and an advocate for shooting sports and hunting and fishing.
Mr. Hays is a member of the National Coalition of Free Men (NCFM), Children's Rights Council (CRC), the American Coalition for Fathers and Children (ACFC) and is a co-founder and current president of the Coalition of Fathers and Families NY, Inc. He is also Treasurer of the Coalition of Fathers and Families Political Action Committee and has been a Board Member and/or Officer of various parental rights organizations since 1995 receiving recognition and awards for his activism.
Mr. Hays graduated from Linton High School in Schenectady, NY in 1975 and graduated with an A.S. in Business Administration from Schenectady County Community College in 1983. He has studied fathers and families for many years, is the primary researcher for FaFNY, and has recently obtained an A.S. in Environmental Conservation and Criminal Justice and a B.S. in Sociology from the SUNY Empire State College. He has authored numerous articles on family issues and has appeared on local and statewide radio and television speaking on numerous family topics. He intends to continue his formal education working towards his Masters Degree in Sociology/Criminal Justice.
Mr. Hays defines success as follows:
To lay your head down each night with the knowledge that you have conducted yourself to the fullest in all your endeavors that day and knowing that you did the most you possibly could have.
Start each day with the first step. It proceeds all else.
MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Achieve balance in all things in life.
Surrender and you lose your honor, fight and if you do lose you do so with dignity.
Life controls you or you control life, take control of your destiny.
Things to do for yourself today:
1. Take care of your mental health.
2. Take care of your physical health.
3. Take care of your spiritual health.
4. Thank God.
5. Remember your ancestors fondly including those still here.
6. Recognize and applaud your own successes silently.
7. Laugh at your own failures loudly.
8. Take things seriously.
9. Don’t take yourself seriously.
10. Do it now!
Once committed to do so, Keep On Charging the Enemy as Long as There Is Life.