FATHERS ROCK

Fathers’ engagement in the Role Of Care Keeping mothers and children safe

Fathers’ involvement in perinatal care and engagement in parenting enhances children’s well-being. It also contributes to the development of healthy relationships and is associated with a reduced likelihood of violence. Therefore, Fathers Rock focuses on the prevention of gender-based violence against men who are (becoming) fathers through collaboration with crucial services.

"The project was well-designed and successfully involved professionals in the field as well as men. It reached the intended target audiences and provided high-quality materials." - European Commission evaluation feedback

Our work

Improve the social and emotional capacity of men who are (becoming) fathers and their skills in dealing with parenting and their (new) role as fathers
Increase the engagement of critical public institutions in recognising and promoting the caring role of men to promote gender equality, child well-being and safeguarding, and prevention of domestic violence.
Enhance the skills of services to involve and support men in parenting to minimise the risk of violence and to increase accountability.
Improve the capacity of frontline professionals to prevent domestic violence and identify risk indicators and early critical signs of domestic violence.
Enable professionals to use available resources and paths for referral of domestic violence and to motivate men to accountability.

Results

Results of the Fathers Rock project include a capacity-building programme for frontline services to identify and refer domestic violence, the engagement of fathers and the work on caring masculinities codesigned with perinatal and early childhood professionals and a multiagency intervention model for prevention of gender-based violence and child safeguarding through the work with men around fatherhood.

Manual for Fathers´ Groups

Training manual for perinatal and early childhood professionals

Multiagency Cooperation Model

Awareness Raising Materials

Online Event: Raising engagement & accountability of men to become caring fathers

Additional resources

Parent European Manual - Promotion, awareness raising and engagement of men in nurture transformations

State of the World´s Fathers (2023)

Preventing and addressing intimate violence when engaging dads

Newsfeed

Launch of Project March 2022

EN | ES | CAT | IT | DE

Launch of Fathers Rock Multiagency Model March 2024

Partners

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Dimitra Mintsidis

Project Manager, WWP EN

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