Meet your Caring Dads team!

Dermot Brady - Accredited Trainer (UK)

Dermot Brady qualified as a social worker in 1994. He is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Kingston and St. George’s University of London, specialising in post-graduate social work education.

Dermot is a Practice Educator and Assessor and has managed placements in a range of settings. He has worked as a frontline practitioner and manager and has a particular interest in working with men, fathering and domestic abuse. rior to joining Kingston he was part of a team that developed a Community Interest Company, RISE, which successfully spun out of the London Community Rehabilitation Company.

Current work involved research on a pilot to help young people exit gangs and a programme developing practice guidance, training and teaching around honour based violence, forced marriage, FGM and harmful traditional practices.

Elaine Gaskell-Mew - Accredited Trainer (UK)

Elaine is a qualified social worker and lecturer in higher education.

She worked for 25 years in the probation service in London (England) specializing in group work with perpetrators of domestic abuse. She lectured in Social Work at Kingston University for 8 years before returning recently to front-line practice.

Elaine is currently manager of the Outreach Team at St. Michael’s Fellowship, a long-established charity working with young parents in South East London. From there she is also running Caring Dads groups for men of all ages and training and supporting new Caring Dads facilitators in other London boroughs.

Linda Stevenson - Accredited Trainer (UK)

Linda is a Training Officer for Caring Dads in Leeds, UK. Linda has worked in the domestic abuse field for over 18 years, mostly in the Domestic Violence Team of Leeds City Council – a large local authority in the north of England.

Linda's role has predominantly been developing and delivering training for practitioners and trainers. Prior to this role, Linda worked in a variety of Voluntary Sector organizations in frontline response to homelessness, disabilities, and substance use.

Caring Dads started in Leeds in 2013 and Linda has been involved from the start in delivering dads groups and training facilitators.

Linda feels very passionate about this work, both in terms of not putting all the focus on mothers to protect their children, but by working directly with fathers to support them to make positive change.

Matt Tattersly - Accredited Trainer (UK)

Matt is employed by Leeds City Council, a local authority in the north of England. In his day to day role he manages a service that provides interventions to address domestic abuse within families. This includes delivering Caring Dads programming to communities in Leeds.

Matt began facilitating Caring Dads in 2014, during the rollout of Caring Dads pilot programming throughout the city, and remains involved in the delivery and supervision of Caring Dads programs.

Before his involvement with Caring Dads, Matt worked with children and families as part of service that provided support to vulnerable families living in Leeds.

Matt is pleased to say he has seen a shift in how fathers are viewed and assessed within a Social Work context. Despite this, Matt points out there is still much to be done to provide a more holistic approach and he is excited to be part of this.

Damian Green - Accredited Trainer (Australia)

Damian Green is an experienced Facilitator, Trainer and Supervisor in the areas of violent offending, working with men and fathering, and policy and research.

Damian is currently CEO of Stopping Family Violence (SFV), a national Peak Body for perpetrator response, and through this role is committed to ending violence against women and children through increased perpetrator accountability and intervention.

Damian is also the Chairperson at Starick, an organization that provides support services to women and children affected by FDV, a White Ribbon Ambassador and State Committee Member, and a member of the National Fatherhood Project Expert Reference Group.

Monique Yeoman - Accredited Trainer (Australia)

Social Work trained, Monique spent 10 years working in the Child Protection field in both New Zealand and Victoria, Australia, working with families and community partners towards the safeguarding of vulnerable children prior to moving into the community services sector in 2015. There, she initially worked in and contributed to the implementation of a large scale state funded trial delivering client services in a multidisciplinary, client led framework.

Currently Monique is the state wide coordinator for the state funded Caring Dads trial in Victoria, Australia and is employed by Kids First Australia. Kids First is a non-government organisation working with children and families across a range of services from the primary prevention, through to the tertiary intervention space.

Alongside supporting the operational and clinical implementation of the Caring Dads program across the three Victorian sites, Monique maintains her clinical practice via ongoing facilitation of the Caring Dads program curriculum.

Nick Green - Accredited Trainer (Canada)

Nick is a Caring Dads Trainer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

His role as a Child Protection Worker at the Children's Aid Society of Toronto, has provided him with the opportunity to experience multiple roles and areas of specialization.

Nick has been facilitating dads groups and training other clinicians in the Caring Dads program for 7 years, and feels passionately about sharing his learnings with others.

He is also a professional artist and active member of the Toronto arts community.

Yoshi Takano - Accredited Trainer (Japanese Language)

Dr. Takano is an Assistant Professor at the Doctor of Psychology Program in the Department of Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island.

Dr. Takano has an expertise in forensic psychology in various intervention approaches and assessments. Dr. Takano has facilitated court mandated domestic violence intervention programs in British Columbia and Alberta, as well as facilitating Caring Dads programming for many years.

He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in Canada, as well as in Japan about effective therapeutic approaches for domestic violence. He is an accredited Caring Dads Trainer in Canada, and also trains facilitators for the Caring Dads program in Japan.

Abir Al Jamal - Accredited Trainer (Arabic Language)

Abir Al Jamal, MSW, RSW, earned her degree from the University of Western Ontario in 2015. She has over twenty years of international experience working with internally displaced, refugees, and vulnerable populations.

In Canada, she is a service provider and researcher at the MRCSSI, London, Ontario. She is focused on researching domestic violence, risk assessments, and social issues that affect immigrants and newcomers’ communities.

She comes from an anti-oppressive, anti-racist, and trauma-informed lens. She believes in evidence-based best practices, more specifically, culturally informed risk assessment and culturally integrative responses to address gaps in services for immigrants and newcomers.

Carina Corradi - Accredited Trainer (Spanish Language)

Carina Corradi, Psychologist/Psychoanalyst, BSc, SSW, Life Coach.

With more than 25 years experience, working in human services, within private and not-for-profit sectors, Carina Corradi is the Lead Facilitator of the Caring Dads Program at Changing Ways, London, ON, Canada.

Carina supports men/fathers who have perpetrated abuse, by holding them responsible for their choices and actions, building trust, and successfully engaging men in ending the cycle of abuse against women and children.

In addition, Carina is a certified Caring Dads Trainer for Spanish speaking Caring Dads facilitator trainings.

Rick Mulvaney - Business Management for Caring Dads Social Enterprise

Rick has worked in non-profit administration for 20+ years in the intimate partner violence sector. He has had the opportunity to support orgnizations providing programming to both pepetrators and survivors of intimate partner violence.

Rick is the Director of Administration & Operations for Changing Ways and has supported the organization to achieve its mission of disrupting men's violence towards women and children for 10 years.

Rick has faciliatated both Caring Dads and Partner Assault Response client groups at Changing Ways. This stregthens his commitment to understanding the complexities, challenges, and opportunties of working with men to create a safe place where they can reflect and take accountability for choices and actions that cause harm to women and children in their lives.