Doug Edwards founder of Real Dads Forever talks about how important it is for men to be more involved in their families' lives.Doug Edwards, is the founder and Program Director of Real Dads Forever, a Fatherhood Strategies Development organization. He has consulted with CT DSS, CT State Dept. of Education, DCF, Children’s Trust Fund, CT Judicial and Corrections Departments, Early Learning, Head Start, public and private schools and Family Development Centers around Parental Involvement with a focus on Fathers and Family Men
A member of the Advisory Council of the Fatherhood Initiative of CT, Doug is past President of the Board of Directors of the Children’s Law Center of Connecticut, past Statewide Coordinator for Parents Supporting Educational Excellence (PSEE) and is Facilitator and Consultant for the Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI.)
Doug has traveled around the country, facilitating workshops, training staff, and motivating parents toward success. He has spoken with hundreds of staff members, and hundreds of groups including thousands of men, at dozens of schools. He is a proud dad of five grown children, and the granddad of nine beautiful grandchildren.
The series of tables below shows eight areas of human development, and groups the 40 Developmental Assets by these categories. The percentages of young people who report experiencing each asset were gathered from the administration of the Search Institute Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors survey to almost 150,000 6th- to 12th-grade youth in 202 communities across the United States in calendar year 2003.h
Strengthening dads and family men to enhance their emotional, spiritual, and physical relationship with their child . . . forever
