Focus on Fathering Week - 2007

Monday 27 August to Sunday 2 September 2007

Focus on Fathering Week - 2008
Fathering Report
Photo Exhibition for Local Dads
Other Sources
Image Gallery

Focus on Fathering Week is all about celebrating fathering, and acknowledging the essential role men play in growing the city of our future.

It's about stories we tell about the joy and opportunities of fathering.  It's about supporting our dads, making sure that they can have good back-up for when times can get tough. It's about being the best dads possible, for kids looking for guidance and love, no matter how old they are.

Fathering is a gift to all of us.....lets make it great!

Fathering Report

Fathering Our City is a scoping report on fathering our children in Waitakere City.   It was produced in 2005-2006 by Warwick Pudney, Senior Lecturer, AUT University, Auckland.
Fathering Our City was commissioned by Te Korowai Maanaki and Violence Free Waitakere.
 

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Photo Exhibition for Local Dads

As part of the Focus on Fathering Week celebrations the Waitakere City Council  hosted a photo exhibition on the airbridge, Railside Ave, Henderson, a community collection of photos of Waitakere dads. 


 

Other Sources
 

Man Alive is New Zealand's biggest and most comprehensive men's centre dedicated to working with men and boys on issues that affect their lives.   It is a secular, non-political organisation offering a broad range of counselling services and programmes.

www.manalive.org.nz

The Father and Child Trust produces a magazine for new fathers, carries out research on solo fathering and has an Auckland branch.

www.fatherandchild.net.nz

The Teen Dads organisation has lots of information on how to be a good father, but mostly stories from other young dads.

www.teendads.org.nz

Big Buddy is a mentoring programme based on the simple philosophy that boys need good male role models in their lives to become good men.

www.bigbuddy.org.nz

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