Dad's Resource Center
The DRC is committed to providing education, resources, and advocacy for dads who are separated or divorced and are determined to uphold their sacred responsibility as fathers.
Our approach is to work constructively (including within the civil legal, government, and human services systems) to enable and help fathers play the role that their children need. We are dedicated to helping fathers succeed.
Members and Affiliates
-Centre County Council for Human Services https://www.theccchs.org/
-The Pennsylvania Council of Children, Youth & Family Services https://pccyfs.org/
-Pennsylvania Children and Youth Administrators https://www.pcya.org/
-Pennsylvania Child Support Enforcement Parental Advisory Board
-Pennsylvania Greater Father Family Involvement Campaign See the link below.
-Centre County Domestic and Sexual Violence Task Force https://www.centresafe.org
-Pennsylvania Child Support Enforcement Parental Advisory Board https://www.humanservices.state.pa.us/csws/home_controller.aspx?Preference=Desktop&Owner=Client
Prepare fathers for the emotional and psychological stresses of their new situation of separation and divorce.
Help fathers be successful and effective as parents in their new situation.
Reinforce the data-supported findings that children are much better off when both parents are actively engaged in their lives.
Educate and prepare fathers for how to best deal with the new involvement and intervention of the agencies, legal community, and courts in their lives.
Provide fathers with the understanding, education, and resources to help them prepare for and deal with human service agencies, attorneys, legal entities, and the court.
This includes efforts to help secure adequate and proper legal assistance.
Provide fathers with the resources to effectively transition into a separated family setting or structure. This includes an awareness of balancing the need to co-parent in addition to transitioning into the role of a single parent.
Provide fathers with the skills and resources needed to parent alone as well as co-parent.
This includes providing concepts and social scripts to help ensure dads' continued and meaningful relationships with their children.
We want to help make both parents aware of the problems, stresses, and harmful situations that can negatively impact their sons and daughters thrust into the new separated family setting.
Emphasize the need to minimize negative behaviors and confrontations for the benefit and the well-being of the children.
Encourage awareness of the problems, situations, and stresses of children thrust into the new setting of separated parents.
Communicate and work with human services agencies and the legal community to ensure that the important role that a father plays in his children's lives is understood, encouraged, and maximized.
Work with these professionals to identify and remove barriers that hinder dad's involvement in their children's lives.
Identify and create an awareness of misconceptions and biases that might cast single or divorced fathers in a negative light in the eyes of the human services system, courts, or community at large.