Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered

Empowering girls through sport. Engaging dads as advocates for gender equity. Enhancing the dad-daughter bond & wellbeing. University led research program.

Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered is a multi-award-winning, community-based program, that engages fathers/father figures in positive lifestyle role modelling and effective parenting strategies to improve the physical activity behaviours, physical confidence, sport skills and social-emotional wellbeing of their daughters

During the program, dads spend quality time with their daughters, havin

g fun and working together in practical sessions involving rough and tumble play, sport skills, and health-related fitness games. Both fathers and daughters gain the knowledge and skills necessary to promote lifelong physical activity. Dads also learn evidence-based parenting strategies to enhance the physical and mental wellbeing of their daughters. Daughters are given opportunities to practise key social-emotional skills including self-control, persistence, critical thinking, resilience and self-reliance and spend quality time with their dads working together in fun practical sessions involving sport skills (eg kicking, catching, throwing), rough and tumble play and health-related fitness games. Formerly known as DADEE (Dads And Daughters Exercising and Empowered), the program name was changed to Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered in mid-2019. In addition to our Daughters & Dads Active and Empowered 'Classic' program, a four-year partnership with the NSW Office of Sport will see the University of Newcastle team work with a number of state sporting bodies to develop sport specific variants of the Daughters & Dads program (2019-2023). Daughters & Dads Cricket was piloted in early 2020 in consultation with Cricket-NSW and Cricket Australia and continues to roll out in 2021-2023. Daughters & Dads Basketball is planned for delivery in 2022 in consultation with Basketball NSW, to co-ordinate with the 2022 Women’s Basketball World Cup in Sydney, NSW. Daughters & Dads Football is planned for delivery in 2022-2023 in consultation with Football NSW and NNSW Football, to c-ordinate with the FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023.

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17/06/2026

Did you know that June is International Men's Health Month? 💙

Dr Lee Ashton had the pleasure of speaking with employees at Lake Macquarie City Council, sharing insights into our fathering programs and the profound impact and positive influence fathers have on their children's lives.

It's wonderful to see important initiatives like these organised by Lake Macquarie City Council to support their workforce 👏 Thank you for inviting Lee to be a part of it!

12/06/2026

The Daughters and Dads Cricket program is the perfect combination of learning new skills, bonding, and staying active together! 🏏

The ICC Women's T20 World Cup starts tomorrow! It's one of the best opportunities to showcase female role models to your daughter. Remember, if she can see it, she can be it ❤️👏

The University of Newcastle, Australia

05/06/2026

We love receiving program photos from Menindee Central School! 👏💙🩷

✔️ Strengthening the bond between daughters and dads/father figures
✔️ Learning social-emotional skills together
✔️ Increasing physical activity and developing sport skills

All the best for the rest of the program!

03/06/2026

Daughters & Dads Football kicks off in the UK this week! ⚽

Learn more about our journey with Foundation of Light so far >> ❤️

28/05/2026

It's fantastic to see the program run by Boronia Multicultural Services in action. 👏

Daughters and dads/father figures get to experience quality one-on-one time while learning social-emotional skills, sport skills, and the importance of staying active - together! It doesn't get much better than that. 🩷💙

27/05/2026

Daughters & Dads Cricket 🤝 Essex Cricket 🏏

We are beyond excited to partner with one of the most successful county cricket clubs to bring Daughters & Dads Cricket to their community.

Essex Cricket aims to accelerate change for women & girls' cricket. Delivering our program will increase participation, improve girls' social-emotional wellbeing, leverage cricket to strengthen father-daughter relationships, and help spark lifelong love of cricket. ❤️

We can’t wait to see the impact this partnership will create.

26/05/2026

New partnership loading...🏏🌍

Can you guess where Daughters & Dads Cricket is off to next?

Stay tuned tomorrow! 👀❤️

19/05/2026

Daughters & Dads Football 🤝 Foundation of Light ❤️

Together, we're harnessing the power of football to strengthen father-daughter relationships, enhance girls' social-emotional well-being, accelerate girls' football skills and knowledge, and develop gender equity advocates in the community. ⚽

The University of Newcastle, Australia

15/05/2026

BIG news landing next week!
Daughters & Dads Football is heading to the UK... Where are your predictions? 👀⚽

14/05/2026

🎙️The Daughters & Dads team were back in the studio today recording an exciting episode for our cricket-specific program. 🏏

In this episode, we share our evidence-based top tips for engaging your daughter in cricket, plus a sprinkle of banter (which you can definitely spot in the photos!).

Thanks for having us Sawtooth Studios!

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Global Sport & Movement Collaborative
Newcastle, NSW
2308

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