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The DADvocacy Consulting Group (DCG) acknowledges the vital roles of fathers and mothers alike. DADvocacy builds upon research that affirms that children, fathers, families, and communities are better off when fathers and children are positively engaged in each other’s lives. It includes an active, lifelong commitment to the physical, emotional, social, cognitive/academic, creative, and moral/spiritual well-being of children. DADvocacy takes deliberate actions and helps develop policies to support, encourage, and optimize opportunities for fathers, grandfathers, and father figures to be involved in children’s lives, and vice versa.
Learn more about DADvocacy Consulting Group's MISSION and SERVICES.
What's new at dcg?
2nd annual Daddying Film Festival & Forum (D3F)
D3F - The Sequel: Call for Entries NOW OPEN!
See the list of 2022 DFF Winners HERE.
Follow this link to read the release (6/8/22) announcing the
2022 Daddying Film Festival Student and Indie Award Finalists.
Crying: A Father's Untapped Superpower - Allan Shedlin's DADDYING blog post reprinted in
Voice Male Magazine's Spring 2021 edition
Check out Allan's post How CAMPAIGNful Politics Impact Us and Our Children, reprinted in
National Healthy Start Association's October 2020 Newsletter
ARMOR DOWN/daddY UP!
DCG's Allan Shedlin and DCG partner Armor Down's Ben King created the Armor Down/Daddy Up!™ and Armor Down/Mommy Up™ workshops to assist veterans in armoring down from their military experiences and teach them specific parenting skills to enable them to become the parents THEY want to be. Our workshops continue via Zoom with Warrior Dads/Moms and Warrior Kids. We've dubbed this new phase of the program AD/DU! 2.0.
Find out how to apply or nominate someone for a small grant through our Daddy Wishes Fund nonprofit partners.
World Bank - March 16, 2017
Founding DADvocate Allan Shedlin