Document Type
Report
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Psychology and Social Science
Abstract
The 2012 IPS Father’s Day Catch & Cook events The 2012 Father‟s Day events held in each of the communities, built on the events held in Djarindjin and Ardyaloon the previous year. Last year the events were dedicated for fathers catching food and then cooking together with their sons. This year the event included the fathers and sons preparing food for women. With this shift there was a whole of family focus and also a shift of venue. In Djarindjin the event was held at the school grounds near the basketball courts. In Ardyaloon, rather than away from the main buildings on the beach, the event was held in the community hall. This year Beagle Bay held the event for the first time and it was situated near the women‟s centre. The report below concludes how the IPS is characterised by this exceptional event. The event is unique within the general FSP suite of services and programs that can be evaluated using the current FSP framework. I have extended the FSP indicators in this report. On one level, if the FSP requires 80% of responses from men being surveyed at the event to provide a satisfactory rating, I can conclude, from my observations and recorded interviews with all men attending, there was 100% satisfaction. All the men that I talked to expressed their deep satisfaction with this event. However if the general more qualitative FSP question is do we have an impact; are we making a difference to clients through improved knowledge and skills: The overwhelming answer is yes. But the yes is qualified by two things. The impact is perhaps, in many more ways, potentially more subtle and powerful than any limited view of knowledge and skills would allow. The participation and thus the extent of the event was lower than anticipated, thus the greater the participation of men within the community the greater these subtle and powerful impacts will unfold. With these points in mind, below I evaluate how the event is exceptional as its potential as a best practice approach, aimed at bringing father and sons together. This is a powerful aim, given the past research literature in this area.
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Comments
Guilfoyle, A. (2012). It‟s a just a different way of cooking: Social learning and Aboriginal father and son attachment within the Dampier Peninsula Indigenous Parent Support Catch and Cook Event. Save the Children WA.