Taking 5 or 10 minutes out of your busy day to try one of these activities with your little one can really help them learn more new words and boost their language development 
Category Archives: Parenting
Help Kids Talk Basic Awareness Training
Help Kids Talk is a community wide initiative that is passionate about raising awareness of the importance of speech, language and communication development. The Basic Awareness webinar is free and runs every month. It is suitable for parents and practitioners across Northern Ireland. In the webinar we discuss infant mental health and baby brain development and top tips for supporting speech, language and communication skills in children.
Information leaflet and booking links – https://view.pagetiger.com/basic-awareness-webinar-training-dates.
Parent Participation Service
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/
Advice NI – Free Confidential Advice & Information Service
Advice NI offers free and confidential advice on benefits, debt/money, EU settlement scheme and much more.
Freephone – 0800 915 4604
Email – advice@adviceni.net
Website – www.adviceni.net
Poverty and Infant Mental Health
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.