The Program
8:00 am
Arrival and registration
8:45 am
Welcome to Country
9:00 am
Session 1: Father-inclusive practice in perinatal health services – how and why?
Dr Karen Wynter will lead an interactive session incorporating elements of Group Model Building and Systems Thinking to facilitate improved understanding of the current status of father inclusive practice (FIP) in health and community services in Australia.
10:30 am
MORNING TEA
11:00 am
Session 2: Innovations, solutions and best practice
This session includes presentations on current digital and workforce solutions to support father inclusive practice. The nature and content of these initiatives will be outlined, and evaluation findings or plans explored. These presentations can help participants consider potential Best Practice Principles for father inclusive practice, or individual commitments that they could consider in their own workplace.
Associate Professor Richard Fletcher, SMS4dads
Craig Hammond, SMS4DeadlyDads
Ben Rogers, Movember
12:30pm - 1:30pm
LUNCH
1:30pm
Session 3: Dr Izaak Lim: Impacts of fathers’ mental ill health on child development – a research update.
2:00pm
Session 4: Lived Experience Panel: Dads engaging Dads
This session invites clinicians who are Dads and Dads who have interacted with health services antenatally and in the first 2000 Days to discuss and reflect on their experiences.
Panelists include Dr Sean Mahon-Daly, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Tresillian.
2:40pm
Stretch Break
3:00pm
Session 5: What does the future hold? Facilitator Alison Wallbank, Tresillian Clinical Nurse Consultant
This session will encourage smaller group reflection and discussion in light of the presentations throughout the day. The group will then come together to explore Best Practice Principles for Father Inclusive Practice and potential future core commitments.
4:20pm
Final Reflections
4:45pm
Networking drinks and canapes on the Terrace
