Area
Challenge Dad will be active across Aberdeen City with a particular focus on regeneration areas.
Target client group
Male family members (dads, grandfathers, uncles, carers and so on) of children living in Aberdeen City.
Aims
The aims of Challenge Dad is to promote literacies to male family members. Challenge Dad also aims to offer opportunities and support for learning.
Activities
The project organises fun events for fathers or carers and their children. Events incorporate literacy-related activities to help parents build their skills and develop ways to support their children's learning.
Dads are recruited through local contacts, partner groups and primary schools. The aim is to initially involve 30 new dads, with 60 more expected to join the group within six-month.
In the first nine months of the project a group of the dads will draw up a family learning plan focussing on literacy and numeracy practice.
After one year of contact, dads are given support to organise their own events and will be supported to organise and run their own committee. Dads will also become action researchers by recording everyday literacy practices in their own families and communities.
Pathfinder legacy
The legacy of the pathfinder will be to have a positive impact on learning in the families involved, particularly with the adult males.
The family learning plan - incorporating literacies in the community guidelines - could also be used as a model for work in other parts of Scotland.
Training resources will be developed and could be used by other projects. There will also be a management template on working with male family members that could be reproduced elsewhere.
Contact
Colin Lemmon
Challenge Dad
Family Learning Aberdeen
Kittybrewster Primary School
Great Northern Road
Aberdeen
AB24 3Q U
01224 487 822