Giving children the best start in life in the West

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

 

Round Up: Infant Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 in the West

 

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

 

Understanding poverty in the Western Outcomes Area

 

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 

 

Teddy Bears Picnic celebrates Infant Mental Health in Enniskillen

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

Follow the conversation on twitter at #IMHW2018

 

Contact Us

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

Invitation: Resilience Documentary Screening in the Western Outcomes Area

 

The Western Outcomes Group would like to invite practitioners and social partners to the Resilience Documentary Screening in the West. This is an opportunity to build a wider awareness of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their impact on health and behaviour.

The screening will be followed by a group and panel discussion to explore the ACE agenda to build on the growing momentum within the committed workforce and networks supporting families across the Western Outcomes Area.

 

Click here to find out more about this event 

 

Screening Documentary Details

14 June 2018

10am-12pm

Lecture Theatre, South West Acute Hospital

(124 Irvinestown Rd, Enniskillen BT74 6DN)

 

NOTE: This is a FREE event.

 

How to Register:

Registration is essential.  Get in touch with Priscilla Magee, Fermanagh and Omagh Locality Planning Officer, WHSCT by:

Telephone: 078 80723076

Email: priscilla.magee@westerntrust.hscni.net