Excerpt from Executive Summary of Report: This report was prepared for the Iowa Department of Human Services, Bureau of Collections and Child Support Recovery Unit through a contract with the Child Welfare Research and Training Project within the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Iowa State University. Data for this report were collected from three sites (Ames, Marshalltown and Mason City) from 2010 to 2012. Project participants were Iowa males under correctional supervision while participating in 24/7 Dad®, a program of the National Fatherhood Initiative.

At the beginning and end of the 12-week 24/7® Dad Training, participants completed a Fathering Skills Survey and a Fathering Inventory. When analyzing changes on four different domains from pre-to post-test, results suggested that the men who completed the 24/7 Dad® training improved their knowledge on all domains of the Fathering Skills Survey and became less traditional in their perceptions of male roles on the Fathering Inventory.