The Nurturing Fathers’ Program is a father-focused, experiential learning model, which provides activities that purposefully stimulate thinking and feeling, in a supportive group atmosphere, thus providing the opportunity to change long-held parenting attitudes and behaviors. The goal of the program is to increase the proportion of children and teens growing up with involved, responsible and nurturing fathers.
Program participants are encouraged to understand that they can choose to reshape and relearn fathering, to let go of old fathering practices that do not bring desired results and to adopt new nurturing ones that achieve their intended goals. Each 2 1/2-hour weekly session addresses specified outcomes that build over the 13-week duration of the program.