Project: DigiDad
Purpose: To provide parenting support to young fathers
Funding: The charity NEYDL has invested more than £400,000 in the development of DigiDad over three years with funding coming from grant-making foundations, academic institutions, the NHS and voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations
Background
Former youth worker Kevin Stoodley founded the North East Young Dads and Lads Project (NEYDL) in 2017. After working on a project supporting young mums, he realised there was little support for young dads in the Gateshead area. “There was a gap in the service and no blueprint for working with young dads in a meaningful way,” he says.
He began to offer one-to-one support to young dads aged up to 25 and created opportunities for them to meet each other and share experiences. Almost all the young men who access the charity – 91 per cent – experience isolation and loneliness. Stoodley realised young dads also needed support in areas such as housing, parenting and relationship skills, mental health, and advice around social care or court proceedings.
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