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24/7 Dad™ Testimonials

"I'd just like to say that as a facilitator of the 24/7 Dad™ program, my name is Rev. Jacob Davis. The program has been a tremendous help to me, as well as the clients and fathers that came out to participate in all 12 sessions. Each session had its own statement of telling these gentlemen that they can be the best that they can be. What I discovered is that these men are hard working. They want to work and not shun responsibilities. The 24/7 Dad™ program really opened their eyes on how to really become a 24/7 Dad. The different headings, such as Spirituality and Family Roles, just the topics were very befitting to what we were trying to do. We are trying to let these gentlemen know that they can be responsible. They can see their children, visit with their children, and be that positive role model for their children. We want to continue on supporting them and helping them. Whatever we can do in the line of area that the board has given us. I thank our board and our board president for just giving me the outlet to go beyond the scope of the program and to reach out. We can help other men beyond, even with the judicial system. This program that will help men find themselves, their career, jobs, and to be self-supporting to support their children. I applaud NFI staff, the 24/7 Dad™ program, and all of the topics offered in the program. The topics are of much need and we need to see this program around the United States."

Reverend Jacob Davis, Facilitator
Baldwin County Fatherhood Initiative
Bay Minette, AL

"I'd like to tell you about the impact that the 24/7 Dad™ program has had on me. I'm glad that I got into the program. It helped me a lot and I understand a lot more now. It is very important to be there for your kids when they need you. Checking in this program, I don't regret it not a bit! I know for a fact that if anybody takes the program, they will know and understand a lot more things. I know a lot more now. I just enjoyed it. If we had to do it all over again, I would take it up again because I got my diploma now! I'm looking forward to the other 12 sessions. Being with Rev. Jacob Davis has helped me out a lot to be there more for my kids. I need to pay my child support and see my child; enjoy while I'm here. When you're gone, you can't enjoy them. Just enjoy your kid while you're here."

Anonymous, 24/7 Dad™ Graduate
Baldwin County Fatherhood Initiative
Bay Minette, AL

"I've just graduated from the first part of quite a good program. I started out not thinking it would be much or worth listening to. Now that we've graduated the first part, I'm really looking forward to the second part. I've learned a whole lot. I've never had an actual role model.

"My grandmother raised me and I didn't have a mom or dad. I didn't know the importance of being a dad or a parent, really, and didn't know what it entailed. This program has really helped me, taught me, opened my eyes to a lot of things that I took for granted and a lot of people take for granted. I learned that being a dad isn't just something that you do when your kids are there, or when you want to. It's something you have to do 24/7 because you owe it to your children. They didn't ask to be brought into this world; you brought them into this world. You helped make them. It's your obligation and responsibility to be a 24/7 Dad and be there whenever and however your children need you. You may think of this program as, 'Just another one of those things to get money from me.' Nobody has asked me for a dime for these classes or even said that I've even had to pay a dime.

"I've learned more from these classes than I learned in 33 years of living about being a man, owning up to responsibilities, and just being a dad. Being a dad is a wonderful thing when you really know what being a dad is all about. The 24/7 DadTM program can teach you what being a dad is really all about. Believe me, by the end of it, you'll be like me; you'll be thanking everybody that has had anything to do with introducing you to this program. It is a Godsend. Towards the end of it, I got the message and started really feeling what the program was about. I realized that the program is about the kids and what the kids need. The kids need a 24/7 Dad. They need somebody they can count on and they don't have to question whether they love them or not. Because they know they love them because they show it and are there whenever, however, wherever, whatever time. It's wonderful! Rev. Davis has even asked me about teaching younger kids. What I might do to keep younger kids like the band we had here. What I might do to keep them interested in the class. To start with it would be a hard thing. As long as you keep it exciting to the children, they'll learn it and pick it up. It will make them better as they grow into young adulthood and further into adulthood.

"This is a wonderful program. God-sent! God saw the rising need for it and he put the wisdom for this program into somebody. I don't know who started the program or came up with it, but they had a blessing from God when they did. God blessed them with the knowledge to come up with the program and say, 'Look guys, you want help? Here's your help! Here's what you do and this will help you in every bit of your life. It won't help you in just being a dad, the main goal, but in every aspect.' I've used it in many different ways such as conflict at work, at home, dealing with my kids and even youth groups at church. My sister and her husband are the leaders and they have problems with the youth group. I guess I think more like a child than they do because I get along with them. I use things that I learned in the program about being a mentor and leader to the children. I can be someone they can look up to and say, 'Hey, I want to be like him.' He is a good guy - good hearted, always calm, doesn't yell at us. He talks and explains things to us. He mentors to us. A child would probably never use the word mentor, but that is what being a dad is - a mentor. A dad teaches their children how to grow and better themselves. When they are born they are a blank slate. They know nothing, but we are the artists, writers and novelists. We get to make that blank slate whatever it is going to become simply by the way we do it, and by the things we instill in them. The important things are all in the program. Its things that people overlook and they don't think are really important, but they are. They are the most important."

Anonymous, 24/7 Dad™ Graduate
Baldwin County Fatherhood Initiative
Bay Minette, AL

"The program has had a positive impact on my life by me having a voice. Most men don't realize that they do have rights and a voice. Mr. Jacob Davis has given us a voice in the courts. The program has really brought me in touch with my kids spirit, physically, mentally and every aspect of their lives. I know I have to be a 24/7 Dad. My children are a gift from God and they are always going to need you. No matter if they're 18 or 80. They are always going to want you to stand behind them in a positive manner. If you carry yourself in a respectful manner your children are going to carry themselves in the same way that you teach them. Instead of being a negative influence in their lives you should always be a positive influence in their lives. That's what this program has really taught me - how to be a more compassionate person.

"Being a single parent, I've been the mother and the father. It's sometimes a conflict of interest because sometimes you have to be nurturing, and at other times, strong and masculine. This program has given me a little more insight in both aspects of parenthood. You can never stop learning how to be a parent, whether mom or dad. It's a constant learning process. I have to watch out for my son and daughter with their friends, how their school work is going. I've learned to ask my son how'd his day go' showing him a little respect. If I show him respect, he will show me and other people respect in every aspect of his life.

"The program has given me a little more compassion. Kids have feelings too. They have bad days and good days. I can tell when my son or daughter is having a bad day. As soon as they walk in the door or talk to me on the phone, I can tell they need someone to talk to. Not someone to yell at them and say,'You have to do this, you have to do that'. Be a human being and treat them like a human being. That's what the program has meant to me. Rev. Davis is a big help in letting our voice be heard in the 24/7 Dad™ program. We have a voice. A lot of these guys hadn't stood up and now have to stand up. It breaks my heart because I've been a parent all these years by myself with no help. It's frustrating sometimes when you see dads that don't want to have nothing to do with their kids. I'm the opposite and flipside of it. I am a single dad and I am proud of myself."

Anonymous, 24/7 Dad™ Graduate
Baldwin County Fatherhood Initiative
Bay Minette, AL

"The effect it has had on me has drawn me close to my kids. I thought I knew everything about the kids. Just quality time was the most important thing with the kids. It's more to it than just quality time. They have needs too! Just being there for the kids. A lot of my kids are 6, 7 years old and I haven't really spent any time with them at all. Since this program though, I've been keeping in contact with them and going to see them and stuff. That's one thing that has drawn me closer to them. It makes me feel real good. I feel like a real man spending time and taking care of my kids like I should. There are a lot of pointers in the program. There are a lot of things that a dad thinks he might know, he really does not know until he learns it in the program. We have a lot of rights. Since ' ve been going to the classes, the DA, state attorneys, and guys from the courthouse have been telling us things they've been doing to help the men."

Anonymous, 24/7 Dad™ Graduate
Baldwin County Fatherhood Initiative
Bay Minette, AL

"We have been shifting our programs towards the 24/7 Dad™ curricula. We have found that we are better able to measure outcomes in a much shorter period of time than with other programs we have used in the past."
State Fatherhood Coordinator
New Mexico GRADS
Socorro, NM

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from Baldwin County Fatherhood Initiative's 24/7™ Graduation in March 2005 in Bay Minette, AL.

Enthusiastic Dad
"I've learned more from these classes than I've learned from 33 years of living about being a dad."

Thoughtful Dad
"I understand a lot more about how being there for your children is very important... If I had to do it over again, I'd take it up again."

Changed Dad
"I thought I knew everything about kids and stuff... but there's more to it. I feel like a real man."

Reverend Jacob Davis, Facilitator
"24/7 Dad™ has just really opened their eyes to how to really become a 24/7 Dad. The topics were very fitting. We were trying to let these gentlemen know that they can be responsible, they can be that positive role model for their children."

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