Staying Connected (for employers)

A workplace-based course for separated fathers

The Fatherhood Institute offers a workplace-based course for separated fathers, called Staying Connected.

This short half-day course, which was developed in Australia, helps fathers build positive and child focused relationships with former partners, take better care of their own mental health and wellbeing and stay connected to their children.

The course has been highly successful in Australia where it has been delivered to a range of organisations including the Australian postal service. Organisations which have offered this course to staff have seen a decline in absence and an improvement in the mental health of men who have participated.

We have now run Staying Connected with a range of major UK employers, including British Telecom, Centrica and Citibank.

Find out why employers should invest in Staying Connected.

Read our case study on Staying Connected at BT.

To find out more about Staying Connected and talk through how it could benefit your business, contact our Corporate development manager Charlie Rice by email at c.rice@fatherhoodinstitute.org or tel. 07824 888 439.

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For an initial discussion about any training or consultancy, please contact:

Jeszemma Garratt
Head of training
0791 786 4130
j.garratt@fatherhoodinstitute.org

About our training and consultancy

The Fatherhood Institute offers a comprehensive range of services to support all children and families service providers.

Our courses are delivered by experienced Fatherhood Institute trainers and include a mixture of taught sessions, workshop exercises in small groups and large group discussions. All our courses show you how to develop and implement a whole-team approach to engaging with fathers.

The courses we offer are aimed at service managers and frontline workers from a variety of settings, including Children’s Centres, maternity services, child protection, schools and family learning services, Job Centre Plus, child and adolescent mental health services, teenage pregnancy services and youth offending teams.

We offer off the shelf courses, or can work with you to develop a bespoke course focused on your specific needs.

The Fatherhood Institute’s consultancy services can help you transform your services and strategies: we can also develop audit solutions for your local authority or primary care trust.

Training

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Watch our quick guide to FI training clip (1 min) Many ‘official’ guidelines and policy documents call on family services to engage more, and more effectively, with fathers.

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