Getting Started If you are interested in starting a Caring Dads program in your area, please review the following materials. For more information about the Caring Dads Manual, please visit our manual update page. These two handouts provide background information and rationale that can be helpful during preliminary discussions about implemenation of the program in your community. The following materials will guide you in making decisions about implementing the Caring Dads program.
In addition to the excercises used in the Caring Dads program, alternative exercises may also be helpful in working with fathers who have been abusive to their children and their children's mother. Examples of these alternative exercises are included below. Restorative Parenting Activities: A Group Facilitation
Curriculum Respect and Empathy Toward Mothers If you or your agency use similiar exercises in your batterer intervention program or parenting program, and would like to share them on the Caring Dads website, please email us! Community Training Opportunities We offer agencies, who have an existing presence in the anti-violence movement, and who are interested in potentially running a Caring Dads program, the opportunity to receive training and consultation on implementing the Caring Dads program. We encourage joint applications from child protection agencies, woman's advocacy groups and PAR programs. The training is generally run on two consecutive days by two facilitators. The training can be structured in such a way as to be applicable to managers, program directors, and community partners (one day), and the second day could focus on the specifics of running the Caring Dads group. Please contact us directly for more information about receiving training, providing information about your agency, community partnerships and familiarity with the Caring Dads program. Email: caringdads@oise.utoronto.ca |