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Every Thing For Dads Convention

Founder of Every Thing for Dads, Jim McKenzie, and former NFL

wide receiver and reality TV Star, Hank Baskett will co-host the 1st Annual

Every Thing for Dads Convention on March 15, 2014 at the Gulf Coast Event and

Conference Center in Sarasota, Florida. It will be the launch of a long-term

grassroots movement designed to raise awareness of the increasing need for dads

to be involved in parenting and for their role to respected and recognized in

the parenting process.


Find out more at http://www.everythingfordads.com/about-the-convention/


This all-day event will include a VIP breakfast, celebrity

meet and greet, workshops, breakout sessions, a Fatherhood Town Hall that will

include a panel of knowledgeable commentators discussing the latest news and

issues relating to fatherhood as well as dynamic and motivating keynote

speeches by co-host and founder of the Every Thing For Dads Convention, Jim

McKenzie, NFL Superstar, Plaxico Burress and designer, attorney wife,  Tiffany Glenn Burress, Tampa Bay 10 News Anchor,

Reginald Roundtree ,National Fatherhood Initiative Vice President of

Development & Communication, Vincent Caro, National Head Start Trainer,

Melvin Gravely,  renowned marriage coach

and youth advocate Dr. Jacqueline Del Rosario, Operation Veterans Promise

Executive Director Michael Angelski, 

Founder of Fit For Birth Inc James Goodlatte, Executive Director for

Together We Heal, Dave Pittman, owner of www.dadlifts.com

, Ryan Maier, Teen Parenting Coaches Bill Black and Tom Tozer of www.dad2dads.com , divorce specialist Tommy

Maloney, Parenting Coaches Bonnie and Tom Liotta, occupational therapist an

specialist pediatric home health expert Paula

Tarver, and expert dad blogger David Wallach. 





The day will conclude with an evening of entertainment and an

awards ceremony where amazing dads will receive awards. As if this wasn’t

enough, as part of the Every Thing for Dads Initiative the convention will also

be filmed and streamed via internet to thousands of dads across the country, as

part of a unique documentary movie, series and research project. The initiative

is striving to help form a global network and resource for dads, and to create

smaller parenting information hubs in communities.

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Part of the proceeds will benefit The Every Thing For Dads

501[c] Foundation which has a mission to create a live internet channel to

reach and inspire dads from all walks of life. Hank Baskett, former NFL wide

receiver and husband to reality television star and Playboy model, Kendra

Wilkinson, is the Honorary Chair and National Spokesman while Plaxico &

Tiffany Burress are National Ambassadors.

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