Dad/365 is a volunteer program that works in collaboration with elementary schools in Williamsburg/James City County and York County to involve fathers in their children’s lives. It brings fathers together for mutual support and resource sharing as they strive to be better fathers.

Dad/365 is premised on simple but powerful ideas:

• that children need and want fathers who are positively involved in their day to day lives
• that fathers’ lives are transformed by the experience of committed fatherhood
• that fathers can learn from one another how to be more effective
• that great dads can become SUPER dads

Too often our society equates "parenthood" with motherhood, ignoring the role of fathers, or presupposing their absence. Too often institutions that claim to support families - schools, workplaces, religious organizations, and health and welfare agencies - assume that fathers are not available, not involved, and not interested in giving or receiving support.

Indeed far too many children are growing up with fathers who are on the fringes of their lives, if present at all. FATHERS are the largest free, available resource to solve the problem of fatherlessness. We need to mobilize this resource. Through Dad/365 we affirm and celebrate the uniqueness of fatherhood and the power of shared parenting.

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