FATHERS UPLIFT INC

Dorchester, Massachusetts, 02124-2012 United States

Mission Statement

Fathers' Uplift, Inc. is a mental health clinic that provides fathers with the therapeutic support, resources and advocacy to remain positively engaged in their children lives.

About This Cause

Fathers’ UpLift is the nation’s first outpatient mental health center dedicated to paternal health and male engagement by offering an innovative, self-sustaining, scalable clinical mental health care model. Their programs help fathers address their unique challenges, emotions, and needs of becoming and being a father, while also helping their children, their families and society. Nationally, 25 million children are growing up without a father or male mentor in their lives. 94,000 live in Boston. For children growing up without a father poverty rates double, emotional and behavioral issues increase as do high school drop-out statistics and crime and prison rates. Father’s active in their children’s lives record higher percentages of sense of purpose, increased employment, higher income and decreased recidivism rates. Fathers’ Uplift in committed to addressing this mental health gap to ensure that all children grow up with the positive presence of a nurturing, emotionally available and loving father or father figure who is engaged in their own lives and the lives of their children.

FATHERS UPLIFT INC
12 Southern Avenue
Dorchester, Massachusetts 02124-2012
United States
Phone 6177080870
Unique Identifier 461407932