Under construction - please bear with us - we're working on the following topics. Thanks for your patience!

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This section will cover:

 

How Fathers Matter

What Dads Need to Know

Becoming More Dad-Friendly

Services that Engage Fathers

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• the fundamental shift in families

• the problem with the infant as client approach

• the myth of the missing man

• why dads aren't attending

• systems that keep dads from their infants

• parenting services perpetuating distant dads

• including whanau but still missing fathers

• agencies' natural resistance to change

• staff concerns about dealing with fathers

• the downside of deficit targeting

• "we can't focus on dads because not all children have a father"

• privacy: the exclusion non-issue

• strategies for helping men be great fathers

• inclusive administration

• prepared staff

• programme design

• what works to enrol fathers

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