Dadhood’s mission is to help pregnancy resource centers establish and equip men’s ministries. We work to help them establish a new men’s ministry or kick start an existing program by equipping them with original resources and training. Dadhood founder Tony Trammell has been involved in the pro-life cause since the early 1990’s when he and his family started participating in walks for life and attending banquets. He started working with young men in his church in 1997, and in 1999 was invited to become a member of the board of trustees at his local pregnancy center.
Soon after, he began to feel a burden for the young men coming into the center and started looking for ways to reach them. He met with his first male clients in 2001. In a way that only He can, God opened a door in 2003 for Tony to become a full time volunteer and start a men’s ministry from scratch.
Over the next 7 years he wrote, created, and used daily what became our curriculum, Preparing for Dadhood, Second Edition, while meeting with and mentoring several hundred clients per year. In 2010 he stepped aside from that center to try to help other centers start men’s ministries by offering written resources and trainings around the country.
Since then he has partnered in various ways with centers in 49 states and 12 other countries, and has written 2 other books, Defending Dadhood, Second Edition, and Building Dads in Pink Buildings, as well as a booklet, A Few Good Men. He is currently working on another book, and with a lot of help along the way we now offer our resources in Spanish.
God has also opened doors over the past several years for Tony to do several training webinars for Heartbeat International, including 3 that count for credit in the Heartbeat Academy. He has also conducted training workshops at the annual Carenet Conference, and has been a guest on several other podcasts and Zoom presentations.
Dadhood is now a family ministry for Tony and his wife, Amy, along with their 3 adult children, Scott, Joe, and Tara. God has amazingly opened many doors along the way and He alone gets all the glory!