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DadPad launches in Haringey.

First ever DadPad apps launch in Scotland, for dads in North Highlands and Argyll & Bute.

DadPad launches in South Tyneside.

Julian attends the Rewired Conference 2024 at the NEC in Birmingham, as a guest on the ORCHA stand.

First DadPad app on our new app platform piloted in Torbay.

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DadPad sponsors the Institute of Health Visiting’s Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (PIMH) Conference: Coming Together: Belong, Be Curious Believe, in Manchester – which ended with on-stage ‘dad dancing’ from Kieran at Dad Matters UK and Julian!

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Co-ParentPad© officially launched in Brighton and Hove, with support from the team at Brighton & Hove Safeguarding Children Partnership.

DadPad are the Gold Sponsors of the 2023 National Care Co-ordinator Conference in Huntingdon.

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Our new Co-ParentPad© resource – for LGBTQI+ non-birthing parents – starts to be distributed to our existing DadPad areas.

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Julian is one of the speakers at the Smartline 5-Year Celebration Conference: A new vision for health and housing.

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Julian and Georgie attend the HETT Conference in London.

Julian in Bolton to take part in the Dad Matters UK 5th Birthday Conference.

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Julian is one of the founding members of the Paternal Mental Health Alliance, campaigning to raise awareness of and improve support for dads who experience mental health difficulties during the perinatal period.

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Julian – together with a number of other fathers’ mental health campaigners – is in London for World Suicide Prevention Day, to raise awareness of perinatal mental health issues in new dads, and to present Mark Williams’ report to NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) and to the Houses of Parliament.

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Julian is in London, working with the team at Multivitamin Studio, to produce our first ‘DadPad explainer’ video.

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First DadPad animations produced – following funding from Smartline – in partnership with the team at End of Night Productions.

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DadPad sponsor and work with the team at Alright Mate? CIC to help them turn their ‘Cracking‘ play into a series of podcasts discussing different aspects of men’s mental health.

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Julian attends Public Health England’s South West Conference in Taunton, looking at ways of improving outcomes in pregnancy and postnatally for the most vulnerable mums and infants.

Julian attends the production of Alright Mate? CIC’s play ‘Cracking‘, which looks at “love, loss and parenthood from a father’s perspective” and, as an event sponsor, talks to the audience about our work at DadPad.

DadPad Neonatal resource Highly Commended in the BMA Patient Information Awards Innovation category.

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First DadPad apps go live – in Gloucester, Wiltshire, Bath & NE Somerset, and Greater Manchester & Eastern Cheshire.

DadPad Neonatal launched at Poole Hospital’s Neonatal Unit on Father’s Day.

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DadPad available to buy nationwide in Mothercare stores.

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Inspire Cornwall CIC secures a National Lottery-funded Awards for All grant, to help fund the development of a pilot scheme for a new DadPad resource which will support neonatal dads.

Updated versions of the DadPad – with input from Cornwall’s specialist perinatal mental health team – commissioned by NHS Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group and Cornwall Council’s Public Health team, using CAMHS transformation funding to support local strategy around infant mental health.

Inspire Cornwall CIC commissioned by the then NHS Cornwall Primary Care Trust to write and co-produce an initial 2,200 copies of the DadPad.