A quick guide to FI training

News

Bringing Fathers In: helping global activists embrace ‘dad power’
    Almost 10,000 people have already downloaded our Bringing Fathers In #bringingfathersin materials, designed to help professionals from a range of disciplines work in ways that embrace and build on fathers’ vital role in improving children’s outcomes. 

New web network for Eastern European fatherhood advocates
A new website Mencandoit is now available to promote involved fatherhood in Eastern Europe. Its role is to: disseminate information on working with men in former soviet republics in Eastern Europe and Central Asia develop cooperation and partnerships between individuals and organisations in post-Soviet countries provide information to the media and to private and public sectors. 

Dads warned to look out for signs of parental child abduction
Dads are being advised on how to prevent their children’s mothers abducting them and taking them abroad. According to a new Government campaign,  every other day a British child is abducted by a parent to a country which has not signed the 1980 Hague Convention on international parental child abduction*.  

Blog: UN report spotlights global need for more father-inclusive public policy
Men in Families and Family Policy in a Changing World, published by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, emphasises the need for policy-makers to create policies that can engage constructively with men in their caring roles, both within and beyond traditional family structures. 

Training

Find out about Fatherhood Institute training courses
The Fatherhood Institute offers a comprehensive range of services to support all children and families service providers. All our services can help you fulfil the requirements of the Dad Test. 

Other courses & bespoke training
The Fatherhood Institute offers a comprehensive range of services to support all children and families service providers. We have expertise in all aspects of working with fathers, so if you would like to commission us to design a course specific to your needs, just get in touch. 

Commission Fatherhood Institute consultancy
The Fatherhood Institute offers a comprehensive range of services to support all children and families service providers. We have vast experience of working in a range of ways to assist local authorities and different agencies to transform their services at a strategic level. 

FI Training: Working with Fathers in Early Years and Children’s Centres
Option A: Standard A 2-day training course to help managers, front-line workers and volunteers in Children’s Centres and other early years settings: • develop the confidence, knowledge and skills to work effectively with fathers • explore and develop strategies to engage with fathers • think about how to create a ‘whole team’ approach to engaging fathers • plan needs-led approaches to engaging with and supporting fathers • consider how to use networks to support fathers.