Description:
This training doesn’t sugarcoat the realities fathers in recovery face. It brings you directly into their stories—the ones providers rarely hear and systems rarely make room for. Across seven stops, fathers speak candidly about what they need you to understand: how easily everything can be lost, how difficult it is to rebuild trust, and how often they are treated as a risk rather than a parent working to reconnect.
Participants will confront the blind spots that cause harm, the policies that punish progress, and the assumptions that shut fathers out of their own families.
You’ll leave with a practical, dignity-centered toolkit—concrete strategies, language, and engagement approaches designed to restore dignity, rebuild connection, and interrupt the system-made wounds that push men further from recovery and further from their children. Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
Describe the lived experiences of fathers in recovery, including key barriers to rebuilding trust, maintaining family connections, and navigating service systems.
Identify common provider blind spots, biases, and systemic practices that unintentionally harm or exclude fathers.
Examine how policies and procedures can discourage progress or reinforce stigma toward fathers in recovery.
Differentiate between risk-based and strengths-based approaches when engaging fathers, and explain the impact of each.
Verve Hotel 1360 Worcester Street Natick, MA 01760 United States
