Antoine Johnson

Antoine Johnson is Program Success Director at National Fatherhood Initiative®, where he helps organizations and practitioners successfully implement fatherhood programs, strengthen participant engagement, and build sustainable services for fathers and families. He joined National Fatherhood Initiative® in 2024 and brings more than a decade of experience in health and human services, fatherhood programming, project development, facilitation, program management, and grant writing.

Antoine leads training and implementation support for 24:7 Dad® and InsideOut Dad® and organized the Facilitator Connection Initiative to bring fatherhood practitioners together for professional learning, networking, and shared problem-solving. He also helps manage funded projects, such as a multi-agency initiative expanding access to a self-paced fatherhood program through partner onboarding, enrollment monitoring, technical assistance, recruitment strategies, and ongoing engagement.

Before joining National Fatherhood Initiative®, Antoine led a community-based fatherhood initiative in Western New York, where he helped raise more than $1 million in community funding. He also served as Co-Principal Investigator on a CDC-funded research collaboration with Florida International University and Buffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network examining parenting interventions and strategies to strengthen father and male-caregiver engagement.

Antoine is a contributing author to Championing Fatherhood, writing on father engagement, facilitator development, mental health, and father-inclusive practice. He has also represented National Fatherhood Initiative® in national professional forums, including a 2026 Morehouse School of Medicine panel focused on the contributions of Black fathers to maternal and child health.

Antoine holds a Certificate of Project Leadership from Cornell University, a bachelor’s degree in Health and Human Services from the University at Buffalo, and an associate degree in Liberal Arts from SUNY Niagara.