Fatherhood Task Force of South Florida, Inc.

By way of programming and community organizing, the Fatherhood Task Force advocates for and engages fathers, male family members and male significant others as positive role models and mentors for children to assure their rights. The Task Force takes primary leadership for assuring that Fathers in Education Day and Fathers in Action & Advocacy Week continues as initiatives in M-DCPS having completed the 10th year successfully. Both these initiatives provide opportunities for fathers to engage with children in schools and attend interactive parenting workshops. We actively advocate through messaging and marketing parental policies that are equitable and inclusive of expectant and new fathers too. The Task Force provides consultation and speakers on fatherhood issues, engagement, messaging, outreach and program development like the Fatherhood Reading Squad: Leaders for Readers program and our Best Practices of Fatherhood program. The latter is an innovative, prevention oriented workshop geared to high school students, future, expectant and new fathers with the goal of reaching fathers early on in their development.