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Caring Dads
Helping fathers value their children

What is Caring Dads?

Caring Dads is a program to help fathers improve their relationships with their children and end controlling, abusive, and neglectful behaviour.

Could you benefit from Caring Dads program?

If your answer to one or more of the questions below is yes, Caring Dads program is for you!

• Do you sometimes feel so angry at your child that you feel like blowing up?
• Are you concerned that your relationship with your child is not as close as you hoped it would be?
• Are you sometimes concerned about the level of discipline that you seem to need to keep your child in line?
• Are you concerned that the conflict between you and your child's mother is having a negative impact on your child?

Caring Dads is a group program which runs once a week for 17 weeks. It is a combination of active group discussions, exercises, and homework and provides an unique opportunity for men to connect as fathers. The participants will:

• Develop skills to cope in healthy ways with frustrating situations
• Understand how different fathering strategies and choices affect children
• Increase their awareness of controlling, abusive, and neglectful attitudes and behaviours
• Be provided with strategies to strengthen the father-child relationship
• Increase knowledge and understanding of their children

Facts about fathering:

• Fathers can and want to be a positive influence in the lives of their children
• Positively involved fathers enhance their children's academic, personal and social development
• Fathers have a negative impact on their children when:
  • do not understand the feelings and needs of their children
  • harshly discipline their children
  • argue frequently with their children's mothers
  • use abusive and controlling behaviour