Mohave Dad’s Club is an innovative father involvement program.
What are the goals of a Mohave Dad’s Club program?
1) To provide positive male role models for the students, demonstrating by their presence that education is important.
2) To provide extra sets of eyes and ears to enhance school security, reduce bullying, and help out where needed.
Who are Mohave Dad’s Club and how does it work?
Mohave Dad’s Club are fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and other father-figures who volunteer for at least one day each year at Mohave middle school.
Mohave Dad’s Club invites fathers, grandfathers, uncles, or other father figures to volunteer at least one day all day at their child’s/student’s school during the school year.
Mohave Dad’s Club dads and volunteers perform a variety of tasks during their volunteer day including monitoring the school entrance, assisting with unloading and loading of buses and cars, monitoring the bathrooms, hallways, and lunch room, and helping out with whatever is needed.
What do Mohave Dad’s Club Dads do (while they are at school)?
During the day, you may read with students, play at recess, eat lunch with students, patrol the school entrances and hallways, assist with traffic flow and any other assigned activities where they actively engage with not only their own students, but other students as well.
Many school principals have reported that the mere presence of a Mohave Dad’s Club dad dramatically reduces reports of bullying. On the day of their participation, dads are given a brief review of their involvement and they wear an official Mohave Dad’s Club t-shirt identifying them as a Mohave Dad’s Club member.
Will men really spend a full day at school?
Yes! Mohave Dad’s Club has a great track record of bringing fathers and father figures to school for the whole day. A full day program will be outlined for you on your volunteer day. While volunteering a day is a sacrifice for these fathers and father figures, once they serve their day they will be glad that they did. In fact, in many cases these fathers and father figures will sign up for more days, both because they had an incredible experience and because it gives them a greater appreciation for what the teachers are doing to educate their child.
Supervise Passing Time
Walk the Hallways
Monitor Bathrooms
Classroom visits with substitute teachers
Vaccinated and masked required for indoors and outdoors.
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