| Service Description: | Why Caring Dads?
Caring Dads exists to change current practice to better include fathers in efforts to enhance the safety and well-being of their children.
Many fathers are likely to benefit from participation in this program, but especially men whose relationship with their children or children’s mothers is problematic. This may include over-controlling, over-involved, distant and/or irresponsible, emotionally abusive fathers or fathers who have hostile, highly conflictual, or abusive relationships with the children's mothers.
Men are not eligible for the Caring Dads group if a primary concern is men's perpetration of child sexual abuse. Further screening and final decisions around group suitability are done through a clinical intake interview.
To be eligible for the program, men must have some regular supervised or unsupervised contact with at least one of their (0-16 year-old) children.
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