About FII-ON

Committed to strong, healthy children by affirming and valuing the bond between fathers and their children, The Father Involvement Initiative – Ontario Network works to provide relevant and well-crafted information for fathers and for individuals, agencies, and programs working with fathers.

Vision

Our vision is one where:

• Society understands the importance of responsible father involvement to healthy child development, and acts upon that understanding.
• Communities recognize the importance of the father’s role and are pro-active in the development and implementation of supportive, protective public policies that enable responsible father involvement.
• Every child has access to a caring, involved and responsible father engaged in enhancing his child’s resiliency.

Mission

• To promote both understanding of and concerted action toward responsible father involvement as a supportive and protective condition of healthy child development and resiliency.

Goal

• To be a catalyst in society’s acknowledgement of and action upon our collective responsibility to involve fathers in the development of healthy and resilient children.

Objectives

• To increase awareness of and knowledge about the importance of father involvement in healthy child development.
• To support the FII-ON mobilization process and the expansion of the father involvement movement at the community level, province-wide and across Canada.
• To encourage the creation of networks linking the development of healthy public policy together with concerted action in support of responsible father involvement.
• To educate and support fathers in their role as positive contributors in shaping the lives of their children.