What we do:

• At Community Dad, we strive to simplify the lives of parents assisting with pick-up and drop-off from school or after school when you can't make it.  Emergency pick-ups are our specialty (within a 45mins notice)

Why this service at this time:

• Through my own experiences as a working parent, too many times has my scheduled changed and conflicted with picking up my children on-time from their various schools and after-school activities.  With the delays and interruptions come stress and late fees as many programs charge by the minute for late pickup.

• As a father of (3) children, my wife and I can only be at one location at a time and we try to divide and conquer, but (2) parents are not easily divisible by (3) kids and someone is always needing some location assistance.  

• As a youth development counselor in the NYC Department of Education, I have always been the flexible parent in our household, therefore my wife always volunteered me to pick up the children and occasionally their friends to and from school in our neighborhood.

• As a person of color, I seek to restore the image of Black men as caregivers for the community.  I am not alone in the neighborhood picking up my children and I have developed a network of qualified Pick-Up professionals to take on the task at hand.  

• As it became a consistent request, I thought, I can do this full time and the rest is history