Are you a dad who wants to build some confidence, meet other dads, get a bit of support with the struggles of fatherhood, and want to do so while getting to spend more quality time with your wee one? It’s time to get the support you deserve.

Dads Rock are a national charity who do remarkable work by inspiring dads to be more actively involved in their children’s upbringing. From dad-focused play groups, workshops, peer support, and more, there’s plenty of ways to get dads involved and feel supported.

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Services Available

Workshops

• Dads Rock run a range of parenting workshops to help support dads and mums. Currently offering: Antenatal, First Aid, Hairstyle, Raising Children with Confidence and Sleep workshops. Their workshops are delivered in person in Glasgow and Edinburgh and online.

Young Dads

• Supporting young dads and their families: The 'Young Dads' project provides 1:1 mentoring to support young dads, aged 25 or under in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Becoming a parent can be daunting for anyone. For young men without family support, that may be compounded at a time of setting up a first home, finding work, learning to manage finances, and handle other new pressures of life.

Play Groups

• Dads Rock playgroups are special, they are places where Dads can learn from each other, build confidence, spend quality time with their children and have fun. We have playgroups in Edinburgh on Saturday and Sunday mornings at 10am; and in Glasgow on Saturday mornings at 10am. We also run a Dad and Baby group in Edinburgh on Tuesday evening at 6.30pm. It’s a place to play together, make friends, paint, read stories, go on trips, look for bugs, generally mess about and have a great time.

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• Peer support for new dads: A national service to support dads in the perinatal stage who feel their mental health could be better (perinatal is from when you first learn you are going to be a dad and up to your baby's first birthday). Dads are matched with highly-trained peer support volunteers, who are more experienced parents to give emotional support during this life changing time.

North Ayrshire

• Dads Rock is working with the North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership with funding from the Scottish Government Whole Family Wellbeing Fund to provide much needed support to Dads in North Ayrshire.
  
  
• In a first of its kind partnership our Dads Rock worker is embedded in the Children and Family Health Team helping Dads to be the best that they can be and support them to give their children the best possible start in life. This means working with Health Visiting, Midwifery and Social Work to provide bespoke 1-1 support for dads and their families at home and in the communities of the Irvine, Kilwinning, Saltcoats, Stevenston and Ardrossan

Dundee

• Dads Rock is working with the NHS Tayside midwifery teams to provide person centred, individualised care for families needing additional support with parenting. We are contributing to the holistic support of families by focusing on working with Dads from the antenatal stage through to postnatal stage, ensuring they feel supported during pregnancy and birth.

WhatsApp Community

• Our WhatsApp groups provide a space for dads to connect. You’re free to ask each other questions or provide support and feedback to others who may be going through similar experiences. There’s some general chat too.