The creation of DADS ON DUTY – USA is the result of IMPERFECT MEN and MEN IN-TRAINING mobilizing, organizing and activating themselves as an EMPOWERMENT COLLECTIVE of: FATHERS, GRANDFATHERS, EXTENDED FAMILY MEMBERS, GRASSROOTS ADVOCATES, ALUMNI and CLERGY to provide DAILY VILLAGE ASSISTANCE and SUPPORT to the: administration, staff, security, faculty and students at Southwood High School in Shreveport, LA and other schools throughout the Caddo Parish Public School System. Our daily objectives at ANY school include:

1. PROMOTING our PPP Initiative – Positive Presence Prevention as Youth Empowerment Advocates
2. EMPOWERING students to RISE and become GREAT via our EMPOWERMENT: PROGRAMS, PROJECTS, YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS and YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING
3. REDUCING and ultimately ELIMINATING YOUTH VIOLENCE in schools and neighborhoods where the students reside, which helps to ELIMINATE the VILLAGE-to-PRISON PIPELINE and SCHOOL-to PRISON PIPELINE

As a result of our unification and grassroots advocacy, the top news anchor in Northwest Louisiana, Dominique Benn of KSLA News in Shreveport – a CBS News affiliate, interviewed us about our Dads On Duty initiative. After her interview aired in our regional news market, executives from CBS National News, as well as their world renowned – award winning news journalist, Steve Hartman, viewed her news story. After this chain of events, we received a call during the first week of October 2021 from a producer at CBS National News requesting an interview with us and Steve Hartman at Southwood High School on October 15, 2021. Due to the awesome initial and follow-up interviews by Steve Hartman, our CONCEPTION story of September 19, 20, 2021, is now chronicled and archived in television, print and social media news stories throughout the world. However, our DAILY EMPOWERMENT WORK story has continued OFF CAMERA, outside of the spotlight of local, regional, national and international journalists and social media reporters/influencers.