The National Father-Inclusive Practice Framework Website

Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle, Australia

A Challenge to Services

The Principles of Father-Inclusive Practice presented on this website provide a challenge to all services supporting families.

Each of the nine principles suggests important questions to be addressed at different levels of the service:

• Which fathers are currently included in activities?
• Do fathers experience your service as respectful of their fathering role and is your service recognised as an advocate for father-child connection?
• Are fathers from diverse backgrounds represented among those accessing your service?
• Do policies and staff development processes support the building of a mixed gender workforce competent to engage with fathers?

The Engaging Fathers Program -Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle, Australia

The Engaging Fathers Program aims to promote the wellbeing of children from birth to eight years of age by engaging fathers and father-figures in the lives of children. The program has a focus on family and antenatal services, schools, childcare and early education institutions. It supports the staff in these institutions to better recruit and engage fathers and father-figures with their children.

Many other useful publications and resources on Fathering and Educating Boys are available from the Family Action Centre's online pdf catalogue