Webinar: Engaging Fathers With Intention: A Reflective Approach
Hospital Liaisons in the Welcome Baby program meet with families in hospital rooms at one of the most significant moments of their lives: right after they have welcomed a new baby into the world. This offers a powerful opportunity to engage fathers with intention and care.
In an LA Best Babies Network-hosted webinar on August 21, 2025 — for Hospital Liaisons and other staff of our network’s home visiting organizations and Welcome Baby hospitals — Alex Flores, a trauma-informed fatherhood coach, discusses:
- Practical tools and reflective strategies to engage fathers with curiosity, affirmation, and relational presence.
- How fathers experience the perinatal system and how to ensure fathers feel seen, respected, and invited into the process.
- How implicit bias and assumptions may contribute to fathers feeling unseen, unheard, or secondary — and how we can shift those interactions with intention and empathy.
This interactive session included breakout rooms, reflective activities, and real-life vignettes. Participants were encouraged to share their first impressions and explore any assumptions that might come up when meeting with fathers in the hospital room, creating space for honest reflection and deeper connection.
Watch the webinar recording here, and don’t miss the links to related resources below:
About the presenter:
Alex Flores is a trauma-informed fatherhood coach, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant, and Reflective Practice Facilitator with over a decade of experience supporting children and families across home visiting, early childhood education, and maternal mental health. He has worked in the field from the ground up, starting as a home visitor, moving into program management, and eventually facilitating reflective spaces for home visiting leadership across L.A. County. These experiences continue to shape the way he shows up in the work today.
Alex offers reflective trainings and workshops for early childhood educators, home visitors, and program leadership. Drawing from his work with fathers and years in the field, he supports providers in expanding their reflective capacity to engage fathers with presence, curiosity, and compassion. He brings a reflective and relational approach to every space he enters, offering grounded, real-world insight into what it takes to make father inclusion a living, breathing part of perinatal and early childhood systems.