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Parent Participation Service

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The Parent Participation service recognizes the importance of designing services with parents using their voice and the skills of practitioners together to improve services. We understand the vital role that parents have in creating improved outcomes for children and families. We are here to support parents to influence the activities of the Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership (CYPSP) and to support service providers to develop and improve co-production practice with parents for more information visit https://www.ci-ni.org.uk/welcome-to-parent-participation-service/ 

Poverty and Infant Mental Health

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The NI Association for Infant Mental Health (AIMH NI), Stronger From the Start Alliance and AIMH UK cordially invite you to attend our online Infant Mental Health Awareness Week conference on how poverty impacts the social and emotional development of infants and their relationships with caregivers:

Poverty & Infant Mental Health: 

Understanding the Relationship, Challenging the Status Quo

Friday 17th June 2022

9.30am-1.00pm 

With 1 in 4 children in Northern Ireland living in poverty and rates of poverty increasing most significantly for families where the youngest child is under one year old, we ask: Is anyone holding baby in mind?

Keynote speaker, Robin Balbernie, Child Psychotherapist and Infant Mental Health Specialist, will be joined by parents, practitioners and policy makers, to discuss the key issues and focus on ‘what works’ solutions to ensure every child in Northern Ireland gets the best start in life.

Local contributors include:

  • Parents & Practitioners from ABC PiP, MAS Project and STEP
  • Dr. Ciara Fitzpatrick, Ulster University
  • Peter Toogood, Department of Health
  • Tracy Johnston, Department for Communities
  • Linsey Farrell, Department of Education
  • Maurice Meehan, PHA

For further information and to receive the Zoom joining details, please register your attendance on Eventbrite: AIMH NI and Stronger From The Start Event – #IMHAW2022 Tickets, Fri 17 Jun 2022 at 09:30 | Eventbrite

This event is being held as part of Infant Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 and we’d be hugely grateful if you can support our awareness raising efforts by sharing this invitation across your networks.

Southern Area FYI Newsletter – Issue 82

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Welcome to the 82nd edition of our information bulletin, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

Download Issue 82 – 12 May 2022

As you may be aware, this week is Mental Health Awareness Week. Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health are one of our 3 top priorities in the Southern Trust Area and we are promoting many relevant key services and resources in this edition of ‘FYI’. We know there are many more services and resources so please keep sharing them with us and we will be happy to keep these included.

One of the ways to promote good emotional wellbeing is to see children and young people engaged in positive activities in their local area, so you will see on page 3 a great way for all organisations and services to share their summer activities and schemes in the Southern Trust Area with others with whom they work.

Based on recent feedback from our ‘FYI’ Members Survey, we are now organising the Southern Trust Area section by theme which will hopefully make navigating the information contained in ‘FYI’ even more straightforward!

Joanne Patterson & Darren Curtis, Locality Development Team, Southern Area

Fatherhood: A Life Changing Relationship

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This Free 1 hour seminar is ideal for practitioners & professionals who work with children and parents. It will also be of interest to those who want to find out more about the important role that fathers play in their children’s lives – download Poster and more information

Register for this free 1 hour webinar at : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dads-direct-steve-biddulph-fatherhood-a-life-changing-relationship-tickets-338215500667

Down, Ards and North Down LPGs Fortnightly News

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Welcome back to Edition 46 of the fortnightly newsletter for Locality Planning Groups in Down,  Ards and North Down.

Download your copy here

In this Mental Health Awareness edition we would like to share information on services promoting emotional, social and financial support for struggling families. Please share with your contacts.

If you wish to advertise any upcoming programmes or activities please see the guidance on the back
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