The Fathering Project |
About the Fathering Project
The Fathering Project is an evidence-based organisation that aims to promote positive fathering behaviours and fathers’ engagement with their infants, preschool, primary school and adolescent-aged children.
The Fathering Project recognises that fathers, and father figures, play a vital role in children’s lives. The evidence demonstrating fathers’ potential to positively influence their children’s health and mental health, social success and academic achievements is now robust, indisputable, and compelling.
The Fathering Project has a great website about what they do:
https://thefatheringproject.org/about-us/
At Huntingdale Primary School we are thinking of implementing The Fathering Program at our school.
To start the Fathering Project at our school we would have a ‘launch event’ (for example a pizza and paper plane making night or a BBQ), with the aim of:
· Father’s creating relationships between the other fathers in the school
· Brainstorming about supports fathers need
· Creating a network of fathers to organise other events later on for fathers/children with some support from the school
The Fathering Project has information on the sorts of programs they can help run which can be found at: https://thefatheringproject.org/programs/school-program/
The school would aim to implement an event around every 3 months, depending on interest from fathers and having fathers willing to take the lead in facilitating events with support from the school.