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Capacity Building for Father-Inclusive Practice

Capacity building implies that a service is able to sustain a new approach, in this case to include fathers, across time. The way that staff members might engage fathers in conversation as they come through the door, for example, should not rely on the interests, enthusiasm and accidental skills of individual staff members. Nor should it rely on a specific program funded to ‘take care of fathers’ while the bulk of the service delivery reinforces the notion that mothers are the ones responsible for infants and children’s wellbeing.

For sustained change the organization, not just individuals, need to have the capacity to develop the work with fathers, to be responsive to fathers and families as the needs and requirements of fathers are identified and addressed. Building capacity for father-inclusive practice then implies change across all of the areas (inside and outside of organizations) that influence practice, from personal competencies of the staff involved through to protocols and procedures of the service organization to policies, regulations and laws governing human service interactions with families.

A pdf, Capacity Building for Father Inclusive Practice, contains more information and a series of links to useful documents.

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