Empowering Fathers, Strengthening Families

DIALOGUE (Developing Interactions Across Generations, Leading to Optimal Unity and Empowerment) strengthens relationships between boys, young men, and their male caregivers.

The program builds emotional awareness, confidence, communication, self-regulation, and conflict-resolution skills—helping young men navigate challenges without violence.

PROTECT equips men and boys with tools and strategies to recognize, intervene in, and help prevent abuse and neglect toward women and children.

The goal is allyship and prevention: teach men how to see harm and stand in the gap so women and children stay safer.

SHIELD (Safety, Healing, and Intervention for Ending Long-term Domestic Violence) is a batterer intervention program for men and women. Groups are gender-specific. It is an evidence-based accountability program (often court-referred) that addresses abusive patterns, builds healthy relationship skills, emotional regulation, communication, conflict resolution, and parenting/co-parenting responsibility.

SHIELD for women is commonly run as a structured multi-week track for women involved as primary aggressors.

SHIELD Plus is different from standard SHIELD. It is for women who have a CPS “Failure to Protect” case—often survivors of intimate partner violence.

Instead of sending them to batterer intervention when they are victims themselves, SHIELD Plus teaches protective parenting, safety planning, how domestic violence works, boundaries, and how to keep children safer.

Family Forward is InvolvedDad’s parenting education program for both men and women.

It supports family stabilization, reunification, and preservation with structured parenting education and individualized support (child development, co-parenting, positive discipline, protective parenting, and practical home/life skills).

Family Matters is InvolvedDad’s supervised visitation and exchange service.

It gives children and non-custodial parents a safe, neutral place to build or rebuild their relationship under trained supervision.

IMPACT equips fathers with tools and strategies—and helps remove barriers—so they can reunify with their children or strengthen that relationship. Support can include parenting guidance, help with child support and family court navigation, custody/parenting time guidance, connections to community resources, and help with barriers such as employment, housing, and warrants tied to child support. InvolvedDad works with fathers and the judicial system toward resolution. Legal representation may be available in some cases but is not guaranteed.

King’s Table is peer-to-peer support for men, boys, uncles, and other father figures.

People come together—virtually and in person—to support, empower, and encourage one another.

RESET focuses on healthy marriage and healthy relationship training so partners and individuals can build stronger relationships and reduce the trauma that unhealthy relationships create in families and the community.

ALIGN is InvolvedDad’s internal name for its Engaging Men and Youth work (also described as an expansion of PROTECT / PROTECT 2.0 in Genesee County). The program engages men and youth as allies in preventing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. It builds on the PROTECT prevention and allyship approach.