Professionals working in domestic violence intervention programs play a critical role in promoting accountability, supporting behavior change, and helping create safer outcomes for families. This fall, join colleagues from across the field for an opportunity to explore practical tools and evidence-informed approaches for engaging fathers in meaningful and accountable ways.

Northwest AHEC and the NCPAT Conference - Tools and Strategies to Work with Fathers in DV Offender Programs invite professionals to participate in a live webinar on October 30, 2026, featuring nationally recognized expert Juan Carlos Areán, Ph.D.

Why Attend?

For many men who use intimate partner violence, fatherhood can be a powerful motivator for seeking help and making lasting changes. This workshop will examine how intervention programs can thoughtfully integrate parenting and fatherhood into their work while maintaining a strong focus on survivor safety, child well-being, and offender accountability.

Participants will gain practical strategies to:

• Describe the effects of domestic violence on children, parenting, co-parenting relationships, and fathers' ability to provide safe, nurturing care.             
• Explain how fatherhood can serve as a meaningful motivator for accountability and behavior change while maintaining a clear focus on survivor and child safety.              
• Identify opportunities to integrate parenting and fatherhood throughout DVIP’s curricula without minimizing abusive behavior or shifting responsibility onto survivors.        
• Apply practical engagement and facilitation strategies that help fathers examine the impact of their behavior on their children, strengthen empathy, and increase accountability.            
• Use child-centered and survivor-informed tools to support behavior change, including strategies that promote healthy parenting, emotional regulation, and repair where appropriate.     
• Develop approaches for collaborating with child welfare agencies, fatherhood programs, victim advocates, and other community partners to support coordinated, family-centered responses to domestic violence.

Learn from a National Leader

The conference presenter, Juan Carlos Areán, Ph.D., serves as Program Director with the Children and Youth Team at Futures Without Violence. For more than three decades, he has worked nationally and internationally to engage men in becoming better fathers, partners, and allies in efforts to end domestic violence and sexual assault.

His expertise brings a unique perspective on how fatherhood can be leveraged as a pathway to positive change without minimizing abuse or shifting responsibility away from those who have caused harm. 

Event Details

NCPAT Conference - Tools and Strategies to Work with Fathers in DV Offender Programs
📅 October 30, 2026
🕘 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
💻 Live Webinar - REGISTER HERE

Whether you are a domestic violence intervention provider, counselor, social worker, advocate, or other professional working with individuals and families impacted by abuse, this workshop offers practical, actionable tools you can apply in your work immediately. 

Register Today

Join professionals from across North Carolina and beyond for this important learning opportunity and leave with new strategies to strengthen accountability, support safer families, and improve outcomes for children.

Register now: https://northwestahec.wakehealth.edu/courses-and-events/78973