Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered

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Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered

Empowering girls through sport. Engaging dads as advocates for gender equity. Enhancing the dad-daughter bond & wellbeing. University led research program.

Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered is a multi-award-winning, community-based program, that engages fathers/father figures in positive lifestyle role modelling and effective parenting strategies to improve the physical activity behaviours, physical confidence, sport skills and social-emotional wellbeing of their daughters

During the program, dads spend quality time with their daughters, havin

g fun and working together in practical sessions involving rough and tumble play, sport skills, and health-related fitness games. Both fathers and daughters gain the knowledge and skills necessary to promote lifelong physical activity. Dads also learn evidence-based parenting strategies to enhance the physical and mental wellbeing of their daughters. Daughters are given opportunities to practise key social-emotional skills including self-control, persistence, critical thinking, resilience and self-reliance and spend quality time with their dads working together in fun practical sessions involving sport skills (eg kicking, catching, throwing), rough and tumble play and health-related fitness games. Formerly known as DADEE (Dads And Daughters Exercising and Empowered), the program name was changed to Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered in mid-2019. In addition to our Daughters & Dads Active and Empowered 'Classic' program, a four-year partnership with the NSW Office of Sport will see the University of Newcastle team work with a number of state sporting bodies to develop sport specific variants of the Daughters & Dads program (2019-2023). Daughters & Dads Cricket was piloted in early 2020 in consultation with Cricket-NSW and Cricket Australia and continues to roll out in 2021-2023. Daughters & Dads Basketball is planned for delivery in 2022 in consultation with Basketball NSW, to co-ordinate with the 2022 Women’s Basketball World Cup in Sydney, NSW. Daughters & Dads Football is planned for delivery in 2022-2023 in consultation with Football NSW and NNSW Football, to c-ordinate with the FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023.

03/06/2026

Daughters & Dads Football kicks off in the UK this week! ⚽

Learn more about our journey with Foundation of Light so far >> ❤️

28/05/2026

It's fantastic to see the program run by Boronia Multicultural Services in action. 👏

Daughters and dads/father figures get to experience quality one-on-one time while learning social-emotional skills, sport skills, and the importance of staying active - together! It doesn't get much better than that. 🩷💙

27/05/2026

Daughters & Dads Cricket 🤝 Essex Cricket 🏏

We are beyond excited to partner with one of the most successful county cricket clubs to bring Daughters & Dads Cricket to their community.

Essex Cricket aims to accelerate change for women & girls' cricket. Delivering our program will increase participation, improve girls' social-emotional wellbeing, leverage cricket to strengthen father-daughter relationships, and help spark lifelong love of cricket. ❤️

We can’t wait to see the impact this partnership will create.

26/05/2026

New partnership loading...🏏🌍

Can you guess where Daughters & Dads Cricket is off to next?

Stay tuned tomorrow! 👀❤️

19/05/2026

Daughters & Dads Football 🤝 Foundation of Light ❤️

Together, we're harnessing the power of football to strengthen father-daughter relationships, enhance girls' social-emotional well-being, accelerate girls' football skills and knowledge, and develop gender equity advocates in the community. ⚽

The University of Newcastle, Australia

15/05/2026

BIG news landing next week!
Daughters & Dads Football is heading to the UK... Where are your predictions? 👀⚽

14/05/2026

🎙️The Daughters & Dads team were back in the studio today recording an exciting episode for our cricket-specific program. 🏏

In this episode, we share our evidence-based top tips for engaging your daughter in cricket, plus a sprinkle of banter (which you can definitely spot in the photos!).

Thanks for having us Sawtooth Studios!

09/05/2026

Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing mums and mother figures! We hope you have an incredible day with your family. 🩵

27/04/2026

Thank you to Women NSW and the Office of Sport for sharing the powerful influence fathers have on their daughters' physical activity levels, sport skills, and social-emotional wellbeing, and the role Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered programs play in fostering this. 🩵🩷

24/04/2026

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

Lest We Forget. ❤️

Address

Global Sport & Movement Collaborative
Newcastle, NSW
2308

Website

https://www.daughtersanddads.com.au/, http://linktr.ee/daughtersanddadsau

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