Helping fathers safely reconnect with their children.
Caring Dads is a 17-week group program for fathers and male* caregivers who want to build safer, healthier, and more positive relationships with their children and their children’s mother. The group provides supportive space for men to reflect on their parenting, understand the impact of their actions, and develop practical skills to strengthen trust, emotional safety, and connection within their families.
Caring Dads is designed for men who recognize that their children have been affected by conflict in their family relationships and want to make meaningful change. Dads will learn responsibility, explore the experiences and stressors that shape how they parent, and increase their awareness of how children experience fear, stress, and inconsistency. Participants will feel supported to move toward safer parenting choices and respectful co-parenting relationships.
Participants will learn how to:
- Recognize how experience, stress & anger affect parenting reactions
- Develop healthier ways to cope with frustration and conflict
- Understand how children are affected by different parenting strategies
- Take responsibility for harmful patterns and build accountability
- Identify and change controlling, abusive, or neglectful behaviours
- Strengthen relationships with their children
- Build skills to be a positive male role model
Groups run continually all year long. For more information or to register, please contact:
Challenge to Change Intake Coordinator
E: info@novavita.org | P: 519-750-3195
For more programs offered by our Challenge to Change department, visit novavita.org/services-for-men.
*Includes gender-diverse individuals
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