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Fathers’ Mental Health & Suicide Prevention
For health services, local authorities, charities, and employers
An evidence-based and policy-informed programme addressing the often-overlooked paternal mental health needs of fathers, with a particular focus on neurodiversity and parenting.
Topics include:
- Paternal perinatal mental health
- PTSD, anxiety, depression, and identity loss in fathers
- Suicide risk factors and protective factors
- The impact of supporting fathers on child development and family stability
- Making services and workplaces father-inclusive to enhance suicide prevention efforts.
Impact
Impact: This work has informed policy discussions at Westminster and contributed to national conversations on suicide prevention and family wellbeing.
Fathers Matter Inside
Fathers Matter Inside is a trauma-informed programme supporting fathers in prison to understand paternal mental health, strengthen identity, and maintain healthy family bonds.
Through education, reflection, and practical tools, it helps reduce isolation, improve wellbeing, support safe communication with children, and contribute to rehabilitation, resettlement, and intergenerational mental health prevention, aligned with safeguarding, evidence, and lived experience across custodial settings.
Sporting Fathers Programme
Sporting Fathers Matter is a training and awareness programme supporting athletes and sports professionals to understand paternal mental health, identity, and life transitions into fatherhood.
It promotes wellbeing on and off the field, reduces stigma, strengthens family relationships, and equips clubs with practical, trauma-informed tools to support sporting fathers, performance, retention, and long-term mental health outcomes.
Fathers Mental Health Training: Join Us in Making a Difference
Because Fathers Matter (Workplace Edition)
addresses the hidden cost of unsupported paternal mental health at work. Untreated distress increases absenteeism, presenteeism, turnover, and risk, while fathers face elevated suicide vulnerability during major life transitions.
This course equips employers with practical, evidence-informed tools to reduce risk, protect staff, improve wellbeing, and strengthen performance, retention, and organisational culture.
This content explores the intersection of neurodiversity, including ADHD and autism, trauma, and the vital role of
- Understand how neurodivergence affects stress, attachment,
New - Leadership & Post-Traumatic Growth
Leadership & Post-Traumatic Growth
For anyone interested in neurodiversity and parenting, as well as paternal mental health, this programme explores how adversity can become a catalyst for growth — personally and professionally.
Participants will:
Understand trauma, stress, and burnout in leadership roles, which can also impact suicide prevention efforts.
Learn how post-traumatic growth develops.
Build emotionally intelligent, psychologically safe teams.
Strengthen decision-making under pressure.
Develop sustainable leadership practices.
Consultancy
Mark provides consultancy and advisory support across health, business, and the voluntary sector, with a particular focus on fathers' mental health.
He has collaborated with organizations such as NHS England, Tommee Tippee, Bosch, and Best Beginnings, as well as various charities and community groups.
His work emphasizes inclusive practice, mental health, and wellbeing, especially in relation to fathers reaching out for support regardin
Fathers Mental Health: Empowering Dads
Mark Williams specializes in bespoke consultancy that integrates staff talks, focused group sessions, and strategic support.
His approach helps organizations develop policies and informal pathways that better support fathers and families, particularly in relation to fathers' mental health and paternal mental health. By encouraging fathers to reach out, Mark aims to enhance men's health overall.