FSH Newsletter – October Edition

The October edition of the Family Support Hub Newsletter is now available to https://cypsp.hscni.net/download/391/family-support-hubs/42040/oct23-fsh-newsletter.pdf

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This edition is packed with useful information about services and events. In the coming editions of the newsletter we are going to showcase our Coordinators and their Hubs. Kicking us off we have Seána Connor from the Fermanagh Hub hosted my Action for Children.

It is also packed full of information for parents/carers, early years, children & young people with a disability,  mental health and wellbeing advice,  Helplines and much more – make sure you download your copy now!

Previous editions of the newsletter are available at  http://www.cypsp.hscni.net/family-support-hubs  under Family Support Newsletter section.

 

Issue 113 – Southern Area FYI – 19th October 2023

Welcome to Issue 113 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

Download Issue 113

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This week is National Parenting Week, so we have started off this edition with key support and services to assist local families.  We have also included information relating to National Adoption Week, which again is this week.

 

You will find a lot of new opportunities throughout the edition, including a chance to learn more about, and contribute to, the new Emotional Health and Wellbeing Network’s Framework – See Page 23 for a brief description of this and avail of the opportunities to attend an online and face-to-face session to help shape this key piece of work. Emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people remains one of, if not, the most pertinent issue and priority for all of our Locality Planning Groups.

 

We hope you get something from this edition. Your feedback is welcome, as always!

 

Locality Development Team (Southern Trust Area)

Early Interventions to Support Well-being

Increasing help seeking – creating opportunities for the workforce and members of the public to engage in early interventions to support well-being:

Aim: To engage members of the workforce in the HSC and C&V sector and the public in early interventions to support well-being.

Target audience: adults across our communities (regional) and the workforce in the HSC and community and voluntary sector. As this is early intervention and low intensity work (self-help), it is not aimed at people with more severe mental health challenges.

The four interventions include:

  • Using Self Compassion to Improve Wellbeing and Support Growth
  • Bend Don’t Break: a low intensity CBT based self-help to support resilience.
  • Making Our Nevous System Work For Us – Using the Polyvagal Therory to Improve Well-being
  • Building our Children’s Developing Brain: aimed at parents to help build emotional regulation with their children.

Time scale

From September 2023 until March 2024, 9 psychoeducational workshops, have been organised via zoom to engage participants in the work. (see details)

 

 

 

Early Years Practice E News

As we move into the beginning of September many children are transitioning into new Early Years   settings. While this can be an exciting time for all, many can experience some challenges at this stage of transition. Children who make the move into a new setting will bring their own unique personal     experiences and individual levels of readiness

Megan McConaghy (Early Years Quality Mentor) and Karen Cooke (Senior Early Years Specialist)
from Early Years Organisation for Young Children, reflect on how these individual experiences must  be fully embraced and considered to ensure a smooth transition.

Early Years practice E News August 2023

Getting Support at an Early Stage

ASCERT, the South Eastern and Western Health and Social Care Trusts have been working together to bring support to people at a much earlier stage. We have created 3 on- line self-help resources to help people work on these common things that we all have at times.

They all have workbooks that can be downloaded and visual clips that guides the viewer through the workbooks at their own pace They are all free. All we ask is if you make use of them use the evaluation link on each on to tell us in they have been helpful.

  • Using Self Compassion to Improve Wellbeing and Support Growth Self Compassion | ASCERT
  • Bend Don’t Break: Low intensity CBT based self-help to support resilience

Bend-Dont-Break-30-May-2023.pdf (hscni.net)

  • Building our Children’s Developing Brain for parents to help build their children’s emotional regulation. https://view.pagetiger.com/selfcareforfamilies

On- line workshops on Zoom between September 2023 and March 2024 will be held to create interactive ways to see what is in each resource and make use of them.  See registration links for September workshops.

To sign up for sessions from October 2023 to March 2024 see the training brochure from the Western Trust

Health Improvement, Equality and Involvement Training Brochure | Western Health & Social Care Trust (hscni.net)