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A podcast for Pops
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About Us

Dads Evoking Change (DEC) supports fathers as they navigate the complex child custody and/or child support process in family court. Our target population is low-income fathers, fathers of color and young fathers who may not have the legal knowledge or financial means to hire lawyers to advocate for them. 

One Dad At A Time

DEC provides a network of supportive ambassadors for fathers experiencing legal, socio-emotional and financial challenges with child custody and child support issues. We offer free legal consultations, young fathers group workshops, co-parenting mediation, and access to community resources. 

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We Believe

In promoting sensible child custody and child support agreements that benefit the child first, and the family overall thereafter. Our vision is a transformed family court system, that is free of bias and discrimination against low-income fathers and fathers of color who want to parent their children. 

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how we started

Dads Evoking Change is comprised of Kareem Chadly, Founder & Executive Director, and a network of volunteers and consultants who have lived experience and/or expertise in the areas of healthy youth development and child custody/child support systems. Dads Evoking Change (DEC) was founded by Kareem Chadly to memorialize his son. Kareem became a father at just 18. He dedicated his life to positively parenting his son and empowering youth across the Bay Area through his community outreach work with nonprofits such as Youth Radio, RYSE center, Camp Sweeney, and media outlets such as iheart Media.

Dads Evoking Change shares the same initials as Kareem’s son, who was tragically killed by gun violence in 2018, at the age of just 17. Kareem spent the last few years leading up to his son’s death in a stressful and turbulent child custody battle. With no knowledge of the system, and no financial means to hire an attorney, Kareem was marginalized by the family court system. The traumatic experience of losing his son, while what felt like unfair treatment during the process of trying to maintain custody, has inspired Kareem to advocate for under-resourced fathers and create change within family courts across the nation. 

Funding partners

California Black Freedom Fund

The California Black Freedom Fund is a five-year, $100 million initiative to ensure that Black power-building and movement-based organizations have the sustained investments and resources they need to eradicate systemic and institutional racism. 

Belonging in Oakland: A Just City cultural fund at East Bay Community Foundation

The Just City Cultural Fund is a unique public-private partnership of the East Bay Community Foundation, the Akonadi Foundation, and Oakland's Cultural Affairs Division. The Fund is supported by the Surdna Foundation's national initiative Radical Imagination for Racial Justice and additional funding from the Akonadi Foundation.

East Bay Fund For Artist

Since 2003, the East Bay Fund for Artists at EBCF has partnered with more than 9,500 generous donors and more than 200 nonprofit organizations to commission new works by over 300 local artists. The East Bay Fund for Artists has leveraged almost $3.1 million in new financial support for the arts in the East Bay.

Oakland Fund for Children and Youth

The Oakland Fund for Children and Youth (OFCY) is a program of the City of Oakland, and is housed in the Children and Youth Services Division of the Human Services Department. As the largest grant-funding program within the City of Oakland, OFCY's funding for community-based programs and

Dads Evoking Change is a 501c-3 non profit (83-3068380) 

5627 Telegraph Ave, #371

Oakland, CA 94609

Dads Evoking Change© 2018 Non Profit Organization All Rights Reserved.

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