National Daughter-Daddy Reunion Tour September 30, 2005

ESTHER PRODUCTIONS
presents
THE NATIONAL DAUGHTER-DADDY REUNION TOUR

Daughter-Daddy Training Institute
sponsored by
CIGNA HEALTHCARE
Verizon Washington, D.C.
MedStar Health
The Downtown Cluster of Congregations
American Management Corporation
The National City Christian Church

with support from
The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
The Summit Fund
PEPCO
William Lightfoot Sr.
Georgetown University External Relations
D.C. Healthy Families/Thriving Communities Collaborative Council
Covenant House Washington
Saskia
The Freedom Forum
United Planning Organization, Fatherhood Initiative
A. Scott Bolden
Group 360
National Center for Neighborhood Enterprises
Office of the Deputy Mayor for Children, Youth, Families and Elders, District of Columbia
Dr. Clifford B. Janey, Superintendent D.C. Public Schools
DC Action for Children

special thanks to The National Daughter-Daddy Reunion Tour Advisory Committee
Neil Albert, Misty Brown, Mary Leftridge Byrd, Suzanne E. Cambria, Rev. Carolyn Graham, The Honorable Vincent Gray, Monte Hillis,Terry Lynch, Linda Nielsen, Ph.D, E. Veronica Pace, Victor Reinoso, Fred Smith and Kimberley Wilson

FREE, BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!!!!!

For More Information: call 202.722.4639 email:Ddreunion@aol.com
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WHY A REUNION: FATHER absence is a silent epidemic, affecting 20 million girls under 20 years old and another 40 million adult daughters. It crosses all boundaries, with devastating consequences. Unfortunately, there has been little focus within the National Fatherhood Movement on the relationship between daughters and daddies. Thus, many people still believe fathers are less important to their daughters than their sons. But a father is critical to his daughter?s development. A father is the audience before which a daughter develops, practices, and affirms her femininity. He is both the question and the answer to what it means to be a man. When a girl loses her father, she grows up with an unexplained ache that nothing seems to soothe. Fathers also suffer from the loss of a relationship with their daughters. Men want to reconnect but often believe that they are unnecessary or forgotten in their daughters? eyes. They wrongly conclude that once their daughters become women they no longer need or want their fathers. Further, they are unsure of how to build a bridge back without upsetting other people and without being rejected. This training institute is designed to provide daughters and daddies the tools, resources they need to heal individually and to effect a successful reconciliation, thus setting the path to familial, and community healing.

SEPTEMBER 30TH

REGISTRATION 6:00-7:00 PM
OPENING PLENARY SESSION 7:00-7:45 PM
Keynote Address-Dr. Jeffrey Johnson
RECEPTION for Participants 7:45-8:30 PM