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Membership Levels and Benefits-Why Join?
Associate Membership-$25 Be counted! A donation to sustain FaFNY’s efforts. Associates are non voting and does not include an ACFC membership.
Premier Membership-$65 Includes Application Fee, Basic membership and ACFC Membership and membership card.
Bronze Membership-$130 Includes Premier membership plus member recognition certificate and discounts on merchandise and events.
Silver Membership-$260 Includes Bronze membership plus 2 FaF and 2ACFC memberships total (husband and wife, mother and son). Family membership cards for entire family.
Gold Membership-$500 Family Membership. Includes Silver benefits plus up to 4 combined FaF and ACFC Memberships (entire family) total and family recognition on certificate.
Platinum Membership-$1000 Includes Family Membership and separate announcements of recognition for continued support of families (if authorized). Advance notice of events and increased discounts on merchandise and events.
Patron and Family Levels please call Mr. Hays, FaFNY President direct to make arrangements.
Patron Membership-$2500 Includes all the benefits of Platinum Membership and a seat on the Father and Family Advisory Board which meets at their discretion and sits to advise the executive board on family policy and direction in NY State on an as needed basis through interaction with the FaF Executive Board.
Family Patriarch and Matriarch-$5000 Includes Husband and wife listing and seats on the Advisory Board and all the benefits of Patron Members for both spouses and their family.
Why Should I Join FaFNY?
Members in FaFNY receive the following benefits upon joining:
1. The ACFC Shared Parenting Manual-over 140 pages of useful information on issues related to non custodial parents and their families.
2. www.FaFNY.org, our continuously updated web site (currently receiving 5000 info. hits a week) which includes the FaFNY intake packet – produced and available for free on our web page for members and non members alike which has over 130 pages of information for non custodial parents and their families related specific to NEW YORK STATE which includes the following:
FaF Flyer, FaF Newsletter, Important Tips on managing your case, Sample Temporary Order with STANDARD CONDITIONS OF PARENTAL BEHAVIOUR, Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act form to access school records, Top ten list of contacts for Legislative Reform of the system, Sample blank form letter to be filled out and sent to the people on the top ten list, Senate “How a Bill becomes a Law” information, Assembly “How a Bill becomes a Law” and Legislative information, FaF Legislative Agenda for families- Issues and Bill numbers, Voter Registration Card, NYS Courts Overview, county guides to the court, Office of Court Administration form for evaluating the Court itself, Structure of the Courts, explanation of Family Court, Myths of the Current Child Support System, A comparison of disposable income in NY post divorce, Child support standards, Father Facts, A Parental Guide to making Child Focused Parenting time decisions, On Counseling Fathers, Recommended Web sites for Fathers in need, Legislative information listing with hyperlinks for retrieving information.
3. YOUR OWN LOBBYIST and Political Action Committee IN ALBANY WORKING TOWARDS REFORM OF THE FAMILY COURT SYSTEM FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL MEMBERS OF YOUR FAMILY. THE ONLY REGISTERED FAMILY LOBBYISTS IN NEW YORK STATE including the FAFNY-PAC, a Political Action Committee dedicated to families.
4. Work towards A Fatherhood Institute which would enhance the work we already do to promote Fathers and Families throughout New York State to Government, Businesses, Media and other organizations for social and political change beneficial to families.
5. Peer support and networking with other fathers on the local, State and National level including access to the FaFNY Board.
6. National representation through our affiliation with ACFC and a National spokesmen recognized as a family experts speaking to your needs as a family in Michael McCormick, ACFC Executive Director and Dr. Stephen Baskerville, ACFC President.
7. Most importantly…YOU want to be part of the solution. YOU want social and political change for the betterment of children, families, fathers and mothers! YOU are willing to take that small step and join an organization and support it. YOU are a committed family person who understands the value of all family members to children and society. YOU are willing to give a little of yourself so WE can make a better world for our children.
You are willing to work to keep fathers and families together.
Together WE CAN.
********************A letter to Non Custodial Parents and their families:****************************************
Dear Non Custodial Parent and Family:
The Board Members of the Coalition of Fathers and Families NY, Inc. (FaFNY) want to thank you for your past support for families in New York State in the past. We also want to let you know that as we are an all volunteer organization 100% of your donations have gone to help keep fathers and their families together. We have been working right along for social and political change to make it better for families. The work continues to this day. But we can’t do it alone, we need your help.
We have plans to open a Fatherhood Institute, one of the first in the nation, right here in the Capital District and have been assured of financial support from Senator Joseph Bruno this year, 2005. We have met with, and continue to meet with, elected officials and policy makers to change policies for the betterment of families. We continue to lobby for legislation such as shared parenting and mediation for the benefit of our children through FaFNY-Political Action Committee. We continue to provide input into the Office of Child Support Enforcement to ensure that the voices of non custodial parents are heard when it comes to financially providing for our children. We continue to present testimony to the NYS Courts on the plight of fathers and families. We continue our up to date and timely research into the effects of family dissolution on our children and their families. We continue to advocate on behalf of the membership and fathers and families across NY. An integral part of the “we” in continuing this work is the funds provided by your membership dollars and you standing up to be counted as a member.
By renewing your membership and continuing your financial support you are part of a movement to strengthen families and care for our children here in New York. Additionally, as FaFNY Members are automatically signed up for membership with our national affiliate, The American Coalition for Fathers and Children (www.ACFC.org) you are part of the national movement to improve families for the benefit of our children including the new national ad campaign promoting parental rights! By sending in your membership dues you are joining people like FaFNY Member, Actor John Heard, the father in the Home Alone movies, who in real life here in NY was denied “custody” and not allowed to be a father to his own child. You join everyday heroes like David Mysliwiec, who in addition to donating his time as Treasurer of FaFNY, financially supports the organization and new member John T. Barton, Jr. from Buffalo, NY who recently joined at the Gold Level of $500. You join family advocates like Board Members Debby Fellows and Steve Campbell who together bring years of experience and time donated to working for Fathers and Families. You join people like FaFNY VP Randy Dickinson who donates his time and works over 40 hours a week lobbying and advocating for fathers and families. You join our national spokesmen, Michael McCormack ACFC Executive Director and Dr. Stephen Baskerville, ACFC President who work tirelessly in speaking out for Fathers, Families and Children in our national office in Washington, DC.
Join us, the members of FaFNY who speak for the 2.5 million non custodial parents here in New York State, and with your tax deductible donations, financial support and membership we can continue the fight to make things better for us, and most importantly, for our children and their present and future.
As always in support of children and families, On behalf of The FaFNY Board of Directors and ACFC,
Mr. James Hays, FaFNY President.