This webpage is designed as an induction tool for staff involved in community health/welfare/counselling contexts and how their program/organisation can best involve fathers. Organisations and programs are encouraged to complete the whole FIP process t...
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Making Father Inclusive Practice happen (Groupwork Solutions)
AIMHS Health Promotion Kits
Do you want to get serious about promoting male health?
AIMHS has just produced a complete male health promotion kit - the first of its kind in Australia.
The kit consists of a mobile stand of 40 high quality full colour brochures, covering topics on h...
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Men fare worse than women in education, health and crime (ABS)
In February 2012 the ABS released its Gender Indicators Report accompanied by a media release titled Busy mums want more paid work that completely ignored male disadvantage (see Men's Health Australia report here).
Today they have redressed this i...
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Male Health Victoria E-Newsletter – July 2012
President's Update
It's all happening!
Thanks for taking the time to read our very first e-newsletter! MHV exists to serve its members who are serving men, boys and ultimately the whole community. These newsletters will help you keep abreast of develop...
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Boys first in Gardasil cancer vaccine rollout | The Australian
Australia will be the first country to offer males free access to the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, after the federal government announced it would spend $21 million to immunise nearly 900,000 boys across four years.
The new program, which will sta...
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Court rules "fun" dad should have access cut
A father accused of having all the fun with his daughter while his former partner dealt with the "drudgery and hard work" has lost half his contact visits.
The dad was also accused of failing to acknowledge the six-year-old girl was suffering from sepa...
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‘Daycare Dads’ (Channel 7 TV News story – video)
Channel 7 News Sydney reporter Sally Bowrey reports on the increase in the number of stay-at-home dads, but the lack of social services to support them. Broadcast on 12th June 2012.
Source: 'Daycare Dads' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO4s8X...
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Best selling author seeks fathers with teen or preteen girls for book about fathers and daughters
Any fathers with teen or preteen girls: how would you like to be interviewed for a book about fathers and daughters?
The best selling author of Puberty Girl is working on a book focusing on the important role of fathers.
http://www.shushann.com/
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Why women lose the dating game (Bettina Arndt)
Playing the dating game Photo: istock photos
Naomi sat in the back row of Melbourne's Grattan Institute, about to watch her fiance give a lecture. She was joined by three unfamiliar women - all attractive, well groomed, in their mid-30s. From their wh...
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Effective Men’s Health Promotion Training Program (Sydney, Melbourne, Townsville, Brisbane)
Register now for EFFECTIVE MEN’S HEALTH PROMOTION – Australia’s leading men’s health promotion training program.
SYDNEY AUGUST 3 Forum 1, Hyde Park Inn, 271 Elizabeth Street Sydney
MELBOURNE AUGUST 8 Hume Global Learning Ce...
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Fathers on the Move (Western Australia)
A toolbox approach to fatherhood in all its forms presented as a special weekend workshop for Fathers.
We invite you to explore your experiences of being a father, including:
your dad and how he has influenced your life.
you as a father and the feelin...
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Fathers with a history of child sexual abuse: New findings for policy and practice – Child Family Community Australia
The trauma of child sexual abuse can manifest in many areas of victim/survivors' lives, including their attitudes towards parenting and their relationships with their children. This paper outlines the key findings of the limited research that has inve...
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EMALE Issue 112 (July 2012)
In this month's issue:
new report shows gaps in male health policy
NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN - emale readers ticket offer
Men’s Health Week 2012 a huge success
PM’s partner promotes men’s health
Grants to study Māori men’s heal...
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Regional Suicide Prevention Consultations: 10 July to 13 August 2012 (NSW)
The Hon. Mr Kevin Humphries MP, Minister for Mental Health, recently established the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Suicide Prevention as part of the implementation of the NSW Suicide Prevention Strategy 2010-2015.
Using the NSW Strategy as a refere...
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Dads and partners now have legal right to ask for time off work when a new baby arrives – Australian Council of Trade Unions
Dads will no longer have to justify asking for time off work when their new baby arrives, thanks to new laws that ensure they have the right to access paid parental leave.
ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver said unions had campaigned for paid parental leave f...
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Religious circumcisions are crimes says court (Germany)
Religious circumcisions are bodily harm and thus a crime, a German court ruled this week, in what was dubbed a precedent-setting decision.
Non-medical circumcision is a "serious and irreversible interference in the integrity of the human body,&rd...
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