“Dads with a Purpose” (DWP)  is a transformational comprehensive training program based on fathering education. The short term impact of this program is for fathers to gain the knowledge, attitudes, skills and aspirations for successful completion with their children &families.

The intermediate outcomes expected to result from the training are for participants to exhibit better fathering and social behaviors (e.g. Healthy relations with their children and positive interactions with others: family and friends). Fathers who apply these may then be better positioned to bond with their children and family so that they may build a legacy that will reach further than their own lives.

The curriculum being used is “Quinching the Fathers Thirst” from the National Center for Fathering.

 

Each session and accompanying materials offer fathers a “pick-up and go” resource. This curriculum can be used wholly or in-part beyond the intended audience. It should be noted that the training has been developed to meet the needs of dads that are new to parenting, step dads, foster care dads, grand fathers as well as the father that have children that are grown-up and starting their own families (A father's job is never complete and constantly changing)