1. To recruit, engage and activate MEN in local communities to serve as parental role models to children, adolescents and young adults.
2. To guide, instruct and influence children, adolescents and young adults to assure healthy development of each child’s emotional, spiritual and physical well-being.
3. To combat social disorder by restoring a stable family environment for children, adolescents, young adults, parents, elders, neighborhoods, and communities.
4. To provide positive male mentors and role models as leaders within local neighborhoods, communities and urban cities to address the issues of drugs, gangs and violence.
5. To raise the level of public awareness at the local and national level on parental and male responsibility.

MAD DADS members are actively involved as surrogate parents throughout each community, conducting community service projects including:

• Counseling on the streets and showing a genuine interest in youth. Teaching them to become responsible adults by EXAMPLE!
• Tutoring and assisting youth in obtaining job training and employment while providing information and referral services to community based organizations, agencies and groups.
• Working with law enforcement agencies to make local neighborhoods safer.
• Showing parental concern in the community by offering hope, and a visible resistance towards those elements that are destroying the social order within the local community.
• Developing community service projects that address the negative perceptions of today’s youth