Longtime Centre County nonprofit opens first physical location. ‘Perfect space for us’
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- Dads’ Resource Center opened first physical office in State College to expand services.
- New site centralizes support for fathers affected by domestic violence and custody orders.
- DRC cites custody data and 2025 Kids Count report to argue for greater father involvement.
A Centre County nonprofit that supports single fathers with a number of services recently opened its first physical location.
The Dads’ Resource Center (DRC), a nonprofit founded in 2015 by Accuweather founder Joel Myers and funded almost entirely through private donations, moved into its first physical office at 612 W. College Ave. in early December. Before that, the DRC operated mostly virtually.
The move comes as a result of an increased demand for the nonprofit’s services, according to a press release from the nonprofit. Those services include providing education, advocacy and resources to single fathers across the Centre County area — and throughout the state — who are struggling to maintain active, meaningful relationships with their children.
“The new space allows us to better honor and respond to the unique experiences and needs that fathers, and their children, face in these situations,” Steiner wrote in an email to the CDT. “It is awesome. The perfect space for us and what we are doing.”
The new office will also serve as the primary location of services for fathers in Centre County who have been impacted by intimate partner violence or domestic violence such as physical, mental and psychological abuse.
The DRC will be available to assist fathers who have been court ordered to have supervised visits with their children, and can provide emergency shelter services for fathers displaced by intimate partner violence or domestic violence.
“Many of our Centre County fathers have reported being impacted by domestic violence and were unable to get the help they needed,” Myers wrote in the release. “Fathers and their children need and deserve the care and support that these situations require, and it became obvious that we needed to step up and provide it.”
The new office is the DRC’s most recent step to help advocate for both parents being involved in their childrens’ lives — a key mission of the DRC and something that Myers has been outspoken about since he started the nonprofit.
When a father isn’t involved in his children’s upbringing, the child could face consequences like a decrease in physical health, less social-emotional development, having less of a relationship with their expected family and financial instability when they grow up, according to a 2021 DRC article.
“According to the 2025 Annie E. Casey Foundation Kids Count Report, 866,000 children in Pennsylvania live in single parent households, most with their mother,” Myers stated in the release. “Many of those children have limited contact with their fathers. Most often, this is not because of a lack of interest or desire by their fathers. Children can be immeasurably harmed when they are needlessly denied the love and guidance of their father.”
Since the nonprofit was founded more than a decade ago, more than 500 fathers have reached out and received help from the DRC, including more than 100 from Centre County.
Fathers looking to reach out to the DRC can email the nonprofit at info@dadsrc.org or call them at 833-323-7748. More information can also be found at the DRC’s website, where a DRC contract Google Form is available.