The Fermanagh and Omagh Policing and Community Safety Partnership in collaboration with the Western Domestic & Sexual Violence Partnership are hosting a half day seminar that seeks to increase understanding of coercive control for practitioners.

The seminar entitled I don’t know how I got here! addresses the context and impact of coercive control in domestic and sexual abuse. Facilitated by knowledgeable and experienced practitioners working in the field of domestic and sexual violence.  The seminar offers perspectives on how a relationship underpinned by coercive control strategies adversely affects victims and survivor’s health, well-being and autonomy.

 The seminar is aimed at policy influencers and practitioners and seeks to:

• consider what do we mean by coercive control
• explore how practitioners can understand impact and identify indicators
• consider the context of coercive control for risk assessment, safety planning and action for all including the victim/survivors and those seeking to support them.
• explore the implications of different perspectives of coercive control behaviour on help-seeking
• provide an update on the introduction of coercive control legislation in Northern Ireland.

The seminar will take place on Tuesday 9^th October 2018 at The Tara Centre, 11 Holmview Avenue, Omagh BT79 0AH commencing with registration at 9.30am and concluding with a light lunch at 1.00pm. There is very limited parking at the back of the Tara Centre. Other car parks within walking distance include Drumragh Avenue, Campsie Road and Market Place.

To book your place please contact Paula Sheerin, Fermanagh and Omagh PCSP

E:            paula.sheerin@fermanaghomagh.com

T:            0300 303 1777 ext. 21629

Places are limited, and early booking is advisable, please indicate if you have any dietary requirements.

The CYPSP Fermanagh & Omagh Locality Planning Groups in partnership with Family Support Hubs: Western Domestic & Sexual Violence Partnership and Digital Safeguarding Group have been raising awareness of the impacts of ACE’s across the locality through a recent screening of the Resilience Documentary. 60 individuals from across the community, voluntary and statutory sector attended the event.

Click here to read more out the Fermanagh and Omagh Resilience Screening Event

Infant Mental Health Week 2018 in the Western Outcomes Group Area 

The Fermanagh and Omagh Locality Planning Groups celebrated Infant Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 by highlighting the excellent evidence-based practice of its members and learning more about the people that lead in this practice.. A series of key messages were endorsed and celebrated across the Western Outcomes Area as part of the infant mental health awareness week campaign for 2018.

To find out more about the Western Area Infant Mental Health Campaign that took place during the month of June 2018 click here 

Contact Us:

To find out more about this work in the Fermanagh and Omagh Areas please contact Priscilla Magee, Western Area Locality Planning Officer by email at priscilla.magee@westerntrust.hscni.net

The Fermanagh and Omagh Locality Planning Groups celebrated Infant Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 by highlighting the excellent evidence-based practice of its members and learning more about the people that lead in this practice. 

A series of key messages were endorsed and celebrated across the Western Outcomes Area as part of the infant mental health awareness week campaign for 2018.

Research Scientist, Suzanne Zeedyk shared her aspiration for families in the Western Outcomes Area:

‘I would wish times of warmth and relaxation for families in the West.  I would take away the subtle pressure that parents must somehow be perfect and always ‘get it right’.  Instead, I would wish for parents who are ‘good enough’.  That’s all our kids want: parents who can laugh with them and relax with them and spend time with them and laugh with them.  Having confidence that you can find your way back to laughing each other, even after tension and fighting, gets families through some pretty tough places. So that’s what I would wish for families in the West: times of laughter – living in communities that make those times even more possible’.  

Click here to read more about the Infant Mental Health Awareness Campaign in the Western Outcomes Area

Contact Us:

For further information contact Priscilla Magee, Fermanagh and Omagh Locality Planning Officer by:

Email: Priscilla.magee@westerntrust.hscni.net

Telephone: 028 66 344 096

The CYPSP Fermanagh and Omagh Locality Planning Groups in partnership with the Western Outcomes Group recently hosted a seminar to bring together practitioners working with families in the western outcome area to understand the level of poverty experienced by families in rural communities. 

Karen McHugh and Seana Connor, coordrinators of the Omagh and Fermanagh Family Support Hubs from Action for Children shared an overview of the role of the family support hubs to signpost families to range of local support services based on their needs. They spoke about the growing numbers of parents who refer themselves for support, particularly from rural areas however the lack of services to support families experiencing poverty that live in rural communities have become increasingly apparent. 

Helen O’Neil from the Health and Social Care Board highlighted the number of services that are held on the online Family Support NI database. Visit the website at www.familysupportni.gov.uk

Click here to download the report from the seminar 

Click here to download the presentations from the seminar

Click here to download the APSE Food for Thought: School Holiday Meal Provision Document 

Contact Us:

For further information please contact Priscilla Magee by telephone at 07880723076 or email priscilla.magee@westerntrust.hscni.net 

The CYPSP Fermanagh & Omagh Locality Planning Groups invite families to the Lakeland Forum on 13 June to celebrate Infant Mental Health Week. The event has been organised in partnership with ARC Healthy Living Center and Devenish Partnership Forum and funded through the Department for Communities.

Click here to download the Teddy Bear Picnic Invitation 

Event Details:

Date: 13 June 2018

Time: 10.30am-12.00 noon 

Venue: Lakeland Forum

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Contact Us

For further information please contact Priscilla Magee by telephone at 07880723076 or email priscilla.magee@westerntrust.hscni.net