CYSCP
Building relationships and connecting with fathers and male carers
Resources for building relationships and connecting with fathers and male carers
Find resources to help build relationships and connect with fathers and male carers.
- Local links to support for father
- Examples of good practice and advice from our partners
- Resources for professionals
- Videos, podcasts and TED Talks
- Further research
Local links to support for father
You can find support from:
- Raise York
- Family Information Service
- Family Matters York - are here to support, equip and to encourage you to make small steps to change in your family relationships
- Menfulness - we bring men together to socialise, exercise, enjoy themselves, talk and let off steam in a non-judging, friendly and supportive environment. These are all essential for wellbeing and health, both physical and mental
- Parenthood Dads Group - social group open to dads, babies and toddlers. Tuesday's from 1.00pm to 2.00pm in room G11, York St John University
- Parenthood Online Dads Group - Online dad’s group. Social group open to fathers and father and babies. Every Thursday from 7.30pm to 8.30pm on ZOOM. Meeting ID: 873 4393 9324 Passcode: r4BZpL
- Yorkey Dads Hair School - Yorkey Dads, Menfulness and Pretty Plaits are absolutely delighted to announce we are back with now our world famous hair school. Its on the last Sunday of every month in the Community Room at Askham Bar TESCO, 10.30am. Booking is essential. Please don't book for your child and you. You only need to book for the dad who is coming. Book for the Yorkey Dads Hair School. You can donate £5 to menfulness. However, if you can't do this please pay the tutor on the day
- Andy Man’s Clubs - are a men’s suicide prevention charity, offering free-to-attend peer-to-peer support groups across the United Kingdom and online. We want to end the stigma surrounding men’s mental health and help men through the power of conversation. #ITSOKAYTOTALK
- Babies and Pregnancy CYSCP webpage
- CYSCP Engaging with Fathers One Minute Guide
Examples of good practice and advice from our partners
Here are some examples of good practice and advice from our partners:
- Engaging with Fathers Principal Social Worker Blog
- Health visitor parenting tips - Institute of Health Visitors Parenting Tips
- Ey Up Dads presentation - Yorkshire and Humberside Mark Gurrey - Lead Reviewer
- New Dad Poster (Dad Zone)
- Engaging with fathers presentation - produced by Primary Care
Resources for professionals
- DadPad - The Essential Guide for New Dads support Guide for New Dads is a guide for new dads (app available), developed with the NHS. The DadPad app available for dads within North Yorkshire and York. Created to provide dads with support and knowledge to help them with their new-borns. Once the app is downloaded it will ask for their location and direct them to the localised version of DadPad
- Early Years – Engaging with Fathers
- Parent Kind Blog – What a difference a dad makes: engaging with fathers as well as mothers
- IRISS – Good practice with fathers in children and family services
- Family Rights Group - fathers
- Anna Freud – Supporting Dads
- NSPCC – Unseen men
- Fatherhood Institute resources
- Research in Practice – Working with Fathers
- Birthing4Blokes – Everything a ‘Father to be’ needs to know a resource for fathers to be including an online course
- Support – Following Young Fathers Further offers support and has a list of useful resources for dads or dads to be
- New Dad - You Are Not Alone
- Dad's guide to fatherhood
- Home-Start UK - Working with dads and male carers
- House of light - Postnatal Depression Support and Counselling
- DigiDAD – by dads for dads
- Dads Matter
- Baby Buddy - support for dads, pregnancy and postnatal exercise videos, mental health videos - Out of the Blue, premature birth videos, breastfeeding videos
- PANDAS Foundation (Pre and Postnatal Depression Advice and Support) hosts online zoom support groups and have a peer-to-peer support group on Facebook for Dads
- Men’s Sheds - Men’s Sheds encourage people to come together to make, repair and repurpose, supporting projects in their local communities
- Dad Talk - Europe's largest advice and support website for Dads. FAQs, articles and videos to help you become the dad you aspire to be
- Families need fathers - we offer information, advice and support services for parents on how to do the best for their children. We're the only organisation that provides these services on a national basis
- Family Lives (Previously - Parentline Plus) - we provide professional, non-judgmental support and advice in a way that all members of the family can freely access. We provide this through our helpline, extensive advice on our website, befriending services, parenting and relationship support groups. Nearly all of our services are accessible at no charge to parents and you can contact us 365 days a year. People contact us about all aspects of family life including child development, issues with schools, parenting and relationship support. We also respond when life becomes complicated and provide support around family breakdown, aggression in the home, bullying, risky teenage behaviour and mental health concerns of both parents and their children. It is good to talk and we can help you find solutions and recommend further support within our own wider services and/or from our many partner organisations
Videos, podcasts and TED Talks
Watch the following videos, podcasts and TED Talks:
- podcast: Partner and Dads podcasts - Hull
- TED Talk: Caring Dads: The Making of Involved and Confident Fathers
- podcast: How are you dad? - This podcast explores the challenges men face in becoming a father. It discusses the science, evidence and research to help parents and health professionals understand the importance of fathers mental health
- Ted Talk: The importance of new fathers mental health - In this video, Mark discusses his lived experience of witnessing his wife go through a traumatic birth and post-natal depression and how this impacted upon his own mental health and parenting. He discusses the importance of supporting new fathers with their wellbeing
- video: Working effectively with minoritised men - This video shares learning from the Child Welfare Inequalities Project’s approach to working effectively with men, including boys, fathers and male carers
- video: Think Fathers! Why Men Matter - Dads share their experiences in relation to the difficulties in being involved in their children’s upbringing when services are mother-focussed
- conference: Future Men - This keynote speech looks at how organisations can working effectively with men, including boys, fathers and male carers
- video: how to include fathers in maternity services
Further research
Find further research:
- The Myth of Invisible Men (.pdf)
- NSPCC: Unseen Men: Learning from case reviews (2022) - this summarises key issues and learning for improved practice around ‘unseen men’
- Community Care: Engaging Fathers: What about dad? – this article aims to help professionals engage with fathers to ensure they are not overlooked. The article also provides examples of fathers’ lived experience of services
- Community Care: How can social workers better engage fathers? – this article shares the learning from a research study on an attachment building programme for fathers
- BASW: Engaging with men in social care: a good practice guide – this guide offers strategies for engaging with men in, or attached to, families in which a child is at risk or may become so
- IRISS: Good practice with fathers in child and family services – this article discusses the benefits of fathers’ involvement in a child’s life and how it impacts on their development
- Whose the bloke in the room? - a narrative review conducted by one of the world's leading fatherhood-organisations, of the research evidence relating to fathers in the perinatal period and at the birth in the UK, including identifying 'what mothers want' and describing interactions with Health Care Professionals. Research gaps are identified and recommendations made for policy, practice and research
- What a difference a dad makes - report from the Paternal Involvement and its Effects on Children’s Education (PIECE) project
- Fatherhood Institute resources- find information about:
- health
- work
- education
- safegaurding
- recognising and supporting diverse fathers