WHAT WE DO
We UpLift fathers and strengthen families nationwide through service, love, and encouragement.
Fathers’ UpLift provides mental health counseling, coaching, advocacy, and resource support to assist fathers with overcoming barriers (racism, emotional, traumatic, and addiction-based barriers) that prevent them from remaining engaged in their children’s lives. We also provide counseling, activities, and mentoring and guidance to children who are growing up without their fathers.
absent fathers in the US today
Our purpose as an organization is to help more fathers overcome the obstacles that lead to these absences. In fact, our organization is the first nonprofit in the US to operate an outpatient mental health clinic focused on fathers and their families, beginning to establish a new model for empowering fathers and communities.
Absent fathers make up roughly 14% of all fathers of minor children
This year we conducted research to more accurately estimate the magnitude of the challenge our society faces in father absence. Through compiled data from Pew Research and the US Census, we discovered the figures displayed to the right.
4.5-5.5M 14%
10M
Because of this, millions of American children are growing up fatherless, roughly 10 million. 11
