Parents Week Family Fun Day – Ballymena

Join us for a FREE Parents Week Family Fun Day in Harryville Community Centre, Ballymena on Wednesday 25th October 10am – 1pm.

We are delighted to have Mini Explorers providing some exciting, stimulating sensory family fun. Children will have the opportunity to explore emotion based play activities through unique sensory play experiences, in a safe and fun filled environment. Children can experience sounds, lights and bubbles, whilst enjoying hands on play activities promoting positive mental wellbeing through our carefully planned play areas. We will also have sensory dark den which is inclusive of children with additional needs and perfect to stimulate little babies! 

Click here to download a copy of the event’s flyer

 

Changing Childhood Conference – 22 March 2017

The CYPSP Cookstown and Magherafelt Locality Planning Groups will host a ‘Changing Childhood’ Conference in March 2017. This Conference will look at how some children and parents have become addicted to modern day technology and unhealthy food. We will discuss the effects these have on both the child and parent as well as exploring the parent child relationship, children’s behaviour, child development and modern day to day family life.

Click here to download the conference programme 

 

Conference details:

Date: 22 March 2017

Time: 9.30am – 1.00pm

Venue: The Burnavon, Cookstown

 

How to register:

The conference is open to anyone working with children, young people and families in the Northern Outcomes Area.To book a space contact Gemma Lutton by email at gemma.lutton@northerntrust.hscni.net or telephone 028 2563 6615

 

Ballymena Youth Fair encourages Young People to make positive life choices

Over 650 year 11 pupils in the Ballymena area attended the Annual Youth Fair this week.  The focus of this year’s fair was on Mental Health, raising awareness of support and emotional wellbeing services available as well as to encourage young people to make positive choices in their lives.  Veronica McKinley, NICHI Project, North Antrim Community Network said, “This Youth Fair is a great opportunity for a range of services to provide information and raise awareness on health issues to young people attending post primary schools in the Ballymena area”.  

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Ballymena Youth Fair

This year the Ballymena Youth Fair will take place on Tuesday 8th November from 9am – 1.30pm in Ballymena North Business & Recreation Centre Ballymena.

This will be an excellent opportunity to showcase your work to 700+ young people attending from the 7 local post primary schools in Ballymena.

We would like to invite your organisation to participate in this Youth Fair and provide an information stand/visual aids – if you are available please complete the reply slip and return to Gemma Lutton as soon as possible. Please share this information to anyone covering the Ballymena area who you feel may also be interested in exhibiting at this event.

Download reply slip here

Keeping pupils safe-Ballymena Pastoral Care Event

CYPSP Ballymena LPG in partnership with Ballymena Learning Together (BLT) held a Pastoral Care Event in Cambridge House Grammar School in June 2016. The event was attended by teachers and pastoral care support staff from all 9 post primary schools across the northern locality area. The purpose of the pastoral care event was to raise awareness of the vulnerabilities faced by our young people today including self-harm and keeping safe online. The event also enabled organisations to network and share information about services available and how teachers and staff can refer young people for help. Click here to read more.