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Grandma Betty Celebrates 100th Birthday


Grandma Betty Celebrates 100th Birthday

ZANESVILLE, Ohio – Most who celebrate their centennial will put their face on a Smucker’s jar but one woman was joined in the prison yard for a song.

Inmates at the Noble County Correctional Center call her Grandma Betty. She’s been working with the organization Forever Dads and attending graduations of the inmates for the past eight years.

“Coming on my birthday is very, very special,” she said.

Warden […]

ForeverDads Awarded Two Year Grant from the Ohio Commission on Fatherhood


ForeverDads Awarded Two Year Grant from the Ohio Commission on Fatherhood

Zanesville, OH – ForeverDads, the Center for Fathers and Families, was awarded a $260,000 two year grant from the Ohio Commission on Fatherhood (OCF) to primarily serve low income, non-custodial fathers who are unemployed or under-employed and lack healthy fathering and relationship skills as part of the ComeUNITY Project. However, fathers from all walks of life have benefited from this programming.

This project will […]

One Dad at a Time Father’s Day Gifting Campaign


One Dad at a Time Father’s Day Gifting Campaign

The “WHY”
Our mission here at ForeverDads is to help connect fathers to families, and families to fathers. Through our work in the community, we have the opportunity to turn the hearts of fathers and change the statistics of fatherhood absence.

Our Fathers Day Gifting campaign gives the people and faith-based organizations in our community a chance to give back and join our mission to bring fathers […]

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