Help us raise $50,000 to train 1,000 providers who bring healing, equity, and connection to families most impacted by trauma and systemic inequities.

Every Family Deserves a System That Heals

Every day, providers across California step into homes with deep commitment and compassion — meeting families where they are, building trust, and helping them heal and grow. They walk alongside caregivers navigating complex realities shaped by poverty, child welfare involvement, violence, and trauma, offering connection and consistency in systems that have too often fragmented care rather than restored it.

Love, Dad exists to change that.

We believe that no one is well until all are well—and that systems built to serve families must see, support, and include every parent. Fathers are our entry point, but our mission is broader: to transform the entire caregiving system so that it nurtures connection, resilience, and equity for all families.

What We’re Building

Our vision is clear: train 1,000 providers in 2026 to bring family-centered, father-inclusive, trauma-informed care into the spaces that need it most—especially those working with families impacted by systemic inequities, racism and ICE raids, intergenerational trauma, intimate partner violence, and child abuse.

Our trainings are transformational, not transactional. They go beyond skill-building to help providers reflect on their own stories, biases, and emotional capacity, so they can meet families with empathy and humility.

Participants learn to:

• Recognize and interrupt bias in how families—especially fathers—are perceived and engaged
• Address trauma’s ripple effects across generations
• Foster healing and co-parenting even in high-conflict or child-welfare-involved families
• Build reflective capacity to sustain empathy, curiosity, and self-awareness in the face of pain and burnout

This reflective, relational approach transforms not just practice, but systems. It helps providers hold families with the same compassion they hope families will hold one another.

Why It Matters

Providers are asked to hold families through poverty, violence, and immigration threats—often without being held themselves. Transformative training becomes a lifeline, preparing and sustaining providers to meet the deep complexities these families face. Caring for caregivers is not optional; it’s equity infrastructure.

When we invest in the people who hold families, we create ripples of healing—stronger relationships, greater stability, and the disruption of intergenerational cycles of trauma. This work does more than strengthen the workforce; it changes the trajectory of families’ lives, fostering secure attachment and preparing children to become lifelong learners.

When systems engage whole families and support caregivers’ mental health as a unit:

• Children show stronger attachment and developmental gains.
• Mothers experience lower depression and stress.
• Families demonstrate greater safety, stability, and resilience.

Your support equips the people at the heart of this work—the home visitors, parent educators, social workers, and therapists—to create lasting change for families.

Our Goal

Over the next few months, we aim to raise $50,000 to expand our reach and train the next wave of providers—moving toward our vision of reaching 1,000 providers annually.

Your donation funds:

• Training and consultation for providers serving families in crisis
• Reflective practice groups that prevent burnout and sustain empathy
• Policy advocacy that embeds family-centered, father-inclusive care into county and state standards

Every $500 helps train one provider, reaching dozens of families in need.

Together, we can transform how families are seen, supported, and strengthened—from systems that respond to systems that heal.

Join Us

Your gift helps train the people who hold families every day.

👉 Give Now to Build Systems That Heal

Love, Dad is a project of Community Partners, a tax-exempt, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization (EIN 95-4302067)