PROJECT
Lads Need Dads
PURPOSE
To empower 11- to 15-year-old boys with absent fathers or limited access to a male role model to become more motivated, responsible, capable and emotionally resilient
FUNDING
£4,000 from the School for Social Entrepreneurs, £21,000 from the Essex Police and Crime Commissioner, and £10,000 from the Shackleton Foundation
BACKGROUND
Lads Need Dads was founded in Essex in June 2015 by Sonia Shaljean, who had spent 20 years supporting families, offenders and vulnerable people through drug and alcohol issues, domestic abuse, anger management and homelessness. Shaljean noticed a common thread in her male clients' backgrounds: an abusive, unsupportive or absent father. So she resolved to create an early intervention programme "to prevent the next generation of young men going down that path".
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