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Paternity Leave Campaign Aims to Create Advocates Online

June 10, 2019 by Kevin McKeever Leave a Comment

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With Father's Day nearing, Dove Men+Care wants to cultivate advocates for paid paternity leave through a newly created forum on social media. The grooming products company, a longtime outreach partner with City Dads Group, has launched Advocates for Paternity Leave, a closed Facebook group. In this digital space, DM+C hopes expectant dads, families and other individual and business allies will find inspiration to help change federal laws regarding paid family leave, engage with other like-minded activists, and learn how to advocate for the cause, according to company spokespeople. As … [Read more...]

Filed Under: outreach, sponsored event/post, work-life balance Tagged With: Dove Men+Care, family leave

Mental Fitness for Fathers Positively Necessary, Says Clothing Company

March 11, 2019 by Kevin McKeever Leave a Comment

Mental Fitness Noggin T-shirt from fodada to promote mental health among fathers

Mental health, especially among men, is a topic often spoken of in hushed tones ... if spoken about at all. City Dads Group has long advocated the importance of male mental health, asking the subject be brought into the forefront whenever the health and parenting is discussed. We're happy to learn our friends at Fodada, the dad-oriented clothing company, believe the same with its new Mental Fitness campaign. "We want to shift the dialogue around mental health to focus on its positive impact. We want to refocus the dialogue to mental fitness. A positive approach," the company's website … [Read more...]

Filed Under: health, outreach Tagged With: men's health, mental health

Cleveland Dads Organizer Honored for Community Service Work

January 28, 2019 by Kevin McKeever Leave a Comment

darren and theresa carter

When someone is in trouble, do you head toward the action to lend a hand or do you turn and go the other way? If you are Darren W. Carter, lead organizer of our Cleveland Dads Group, you take action to help. Carter's work to serve his community, family and friends recently earned his second place in the "Run Toward Fires" service contest held by a local sales and marketing group. His wife, Theresa, nominated him for the award, citing not just his work with City Dads Group but also the work his does in his community for neighborhoods, schools and foster children. Darren has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: outreach Tagged With: Cleveland Dads Group

Movember 2018: Move It or Mustache It for Men’s Health

November 5, 2018 by Kevin McKeever Leave a Comment

rock a mo save a bro movember 2018

Toss your razor and shaving cream, gents -- Movember 2018 is here. November is “Movember” -- "mo" being short for mustache. This is the month when men all over the world let their upper lips get fuzzy for the sake of bringing awareness to men's health issues. As it has done for the past several years, members of City Dads Group join three other father-friendly organizations to sprout whiskers under our noses to support the The Movember Foundation in its mission to promote awareness and raise money for men’s health issues such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer and suicide … [Read more...]

Filed Under: health, outreach Tagged With: men's health, movember, prostate cancer

A Boy was Bullied Yesterday, and it Needs to Stop Now

October 8, 2018 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

bully bullying kids

Editor's Note: October is National Bullying Prevention Month. According to the Stomp Out Bullying organization, one in four U.S. students say they have been bullied and 5.4 million kids stay home from school on any given day due to a fear of being bullied. A boy was bullied yesterday. I know, I know, a million or more boys -- and girls -- were bullied yesterday. But yesterday it was one boy, a specific boy, a boy I know, a boy I like. I went with my two boys to pick him up for practice, his parents both work and the practices were bumped up to five recently to accommodate the earlier … [Read more...]

Filed Under: growing up, outreach Tagged With: Bill Peebles, bullying

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