Caring Dads

Caring Dads is a 17 week intervention program for fathers (including biological, step, common-law) who have physically abused, emotionally abused or neglected their children, or exposed their children to domestic violence or who are deemed to be at high-risk for these behaviours. The group component of Caring Dads combines elements of parenting, fathering, issues of abuse and child protection practice to enhance the safety and well-being of children. Program principles emphasize the need to enhance men’s motivation, promote child-centred fathering, address men’s ability to engage in respectful, non-abusive co-parenting with children’s mothers, recognize that children’s experience of trauma will impact the rate of possible change, and work collaboratively with other service providers to ensure that children benefit (and are not unintentionally harmed) as a result of father’s participation in intervention. Referrals are primarily made through Children’s Aid Society and Probation and Parole. The Caring Dads program is funded through The Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough.

John Howard Society of Peterborough: Main Office
305 Stewart Street
Peterborough, ON
K9J 3N2