Tender: Domestic and Family Violence Fathers Intervention Pilot – Caring Dads & Specialist Case Management (3-year, NSW)

About

Provider sought to deliver a three-year pilot for fathers who use domestic and family violence, combining delivery of the Caring Dads group program and specialist case management for fathers, mothers/(ex) partners and children to enhance family safety and wellbeing. The pilot aims to improve the safety, freedom and wellbeing of women and children; increase fathers’ accountability for their choices and impacts; provide fathers with tailored case management to address risks and support sustained behaviour change; strengthen child-centred fathering, understanding of child development, emotional regulation, non-violent discipline and respectful co-parenting; and provide mothers, current and former partners, and children with independent, needs-led safety, advocacy, recovery and practical support. The provider must deliver, in accordance with the program specifications, a 20–25-week program that includes multi-source risk and suitability assessment and ongoing risk review; delivery of the Caring Dads group intervention for fathers; case management for fathers, and for current and former partners and children; culturally safe practice; structured transition and case closure; and brokerage. The pilot will test the feasibility, fidelity and early outcomes of this integrated, father-focused intervention to inform future commissioning and expansion of community-based perpetrator responses in NSW.