3 Keys to Igniting Your Fatherhood Program in 2025

Now that 2025 is well underway, it’s time to fan the flame and ignite your strategies for supporting dads. This moment of renewal offers the perfect opportunity to transform your program's impact and reach new heights of success.

Three keys will help you catalyze meaningful change and create a lasting impact in dads' lives throughout 2025.

1. Make Action Your Priority

Talk is cheap, but purposeful action changes lives. In fatherhood programming, this means:

• Moving beyond planning into consistent implementation.
• Creating clear, measurable goals.
• Developing accountability systems that drive real progress.
• Implementing immediate, tangible steps to increase your organization’s father-friendliness.

National Fatherhood Initiative^®’s (NFI’s) free Father Friendly Check-Up™ is the perfect tool to turn intention into purposeful action. The recently released 7th edition is better than ever.

2. Improve Your Knowledge and Skills

Growth isn't optional—it's essential. To lead effectively, you must continuously:

• Invest in personal development.
• Learn new skills and perspectives.
• Build resilience and emotional intelligence.
• Create systems that support ongoing learning.

NFI’s on-demand Certificate Programs provide a great way to improve your work with dads.

3. Make Time for Dads

Relationships are the heart of any successful fatherhood program. Prioritize:

• Meaningful connections with dads.
• Active listening and genuine engagement.
• Creating time in your agenda to text, email, or call dads.
• Building trust through consistent presence.

NFI’s on-demand Effective Facilitation Certificate™ teaches the characteristics and skills required of an excellent fatherhood program facilitator that will help you build those relationships.

These keys will further ignite your commitment to transforming dads' lives and strengthening communities.

How can you move from planning to purposeful action in your fatherhood program?

As you think about expanding your capacity, what one skill or area of knowledge would most benefit your ability to serve dads right now?