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Working Inclusively with Non-resident Fathers: A Workshop for Practitioners
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Fatherhood Training Curriculum
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| DETAILS |
8 July, 9am to 5pm |
| TARGET PARTICIPANTS |
Social service practitioners |
Social service practitioners in child welfare/ protection services/ programmes
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| LEARNING OBJECTIVES |
Develop strategies for identifying, drawing in and meeting the needs of men who do not live with their children
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- Acquire skills in engaging and involving fathers
- Restore fathers to family life
- Reduce need for foster care and adoptive homes
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| COURSE OUTLINE |
- How and where do practitioners find these non-resident men?
- What are their key needs and concerns?
- How do they answer their questions and meet their needs while maintaining confidentiality and support for the children’s mothers?
- What should be the approach when men’s behaviour is less than positive and there are no appropriate services locally to refer them to?
- How do practitioners manage conflict between separated parents without ending up as ‘piggy in the middle’?
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- Fatherhood issues and research
- Our beliefs about fathers
- What do fathers contribute to their children?
Barriers to involving fathers
- What others are saying
- Communicating with fathers
- Principles of practice
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| SPEAKER |
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| REGISTRATION |
To register for the workshop, please click HERE. |
To register for the workshop, please click HERE. |
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Separated Dads Maintaining the Connection: A Workshop for Non-resident Fathers |
Including Dad: A Missing Link to Family Support |
| DETAILS |
9 July, 9am to 12.30pm |
9 July, 9am to 3.30pm |
| TARGET PARTICIPANTS |
Separated/ Non-residential/
Single fathers
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Couples with children with special needs |
| LEARNING OBJECTIVES |
- Understand the impact on and benefits to children of the frequency, amount and quality of father-child visits and other connections
- Identify ways to look after yourself, maintain the best possible connections with your children’s mother, and meet your children’s needs as a father
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- Identify the different parenting styles of mothers and fathers
- Understand the unique value fathers of children and youth with special health care needs have and the importance of validating a father’s experience and role
- Importance of fathers’ participation in parenting their children
- Share effective fathering strategies for building healthy families
- Empower parents with communication skills to better parent their children with special needs as a team
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| COURSE OUTLINE |
- When parents separate: What children need?
- ‘Me’: The importance of looking after yourself so you can have a positive relationship with your children
- ‘My children’s mother’: How to go about managing a strong relationship with your children’s mother so you can both do the best for them?
- 'Our children’: Developing the best ways of connecting with your children and maintaining a meaningful relationship
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- Facilitated discussion with fathers only
- Training on how dads make a difference
- Couple communication
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| SPEAKER |
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| REGISTRATION |
To register for the workshop, please click HERE. |
To register for the workshop, please download application form HERE. |
| CLOSING DATE |
3 June 2011 |
