Individuals sign up at a kick-off event such as a “Dads and Kids Pizza Night” or “Donuts with Dad” or in the office at any time throughout the school year. WATCH D.O.G.S.®, a K-12 program, 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. To help every school in America be positively influenced by the committed involvement of fathers and father figures in lives of their children and students. Today, more than 1,659 programs in 38 states and New Zealand participate in WATCH D.O.G.S.® The first program was launched at George Elementary in Springdale, AR, the school of Moore’s oldest child.
Moore wanted to help prevent violence from occurring at his children’s school or at any school.
WATCH D.O.G.S.® is the father involvement initiative of the National Center for Fathering that was founded by Jim Moore, a concerned father who chose to take action in response to a 1998 middle-school shooting in Jonesboro, AR.
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