UPENN'S MASTER OF APPLIED POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM SELECTS DADS ACROSS AMERICA TOUR FOR SPRING 2007 SERVICE LEARNING PROJECT

February 2007 -- University of Pennsylvania’s Applied Positive Psychology Program (www.sas.upenn.edu/CGS/graduate/mapp/) has selected the DADS ACROSS AMERICA TOUR/DaddyMobile as one of its seven service-learning projects for the spring 2007 semester.

As part of their requirement for a Masters degree in applied positive psychology, four MAPP students will review the literature on positive interventions with fathers in order to recommend specific programs to the DADS Tour. They will also research institutional qualities that contribute to a healthy work-life balance and enhance healthy family development while improving bottom-line productivity. In order to make the DADS Tour a reality, MAPP students will assist in identifying corporate, organizational, and foundation funding sources that have demonstrated a social conscience as well as a track record in family-friendliness and positive employee interventions.

They will be working with DADS Tour Project Director, Allan Shedlin, President & CEO of DADS Unlimited.  Shedlin is available to the Advanced Positive Interventions students on a regular basis, and has met with them on the UPENN campus. A bonus for MAPP students, is the UPENN location (Graduate School of Education) of the National Center on Fathers & Families (www.ncoff.gse.upenn.edu), an interdisciplinary policy research center dedicated to research and practice that expands the knowledge base on father involvement and family development.  NCOFF is directed by Dr. Vivian Gadsden, a family research specialist and member of the DADS Tour National Advisory Board.

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For more information, to arrange an interview or request Mr. Shedlin as a speaker, please contact:  Scott Beller, Director of Communications, DADS Unlimited, sbeller@daddying.com