Cookstown & Magherafelt Why People Need People Training June 2016

This training was facilitated by Barnardos and provided health professionals with information and research on the benefits of early attachment. This one day training event takes the best available evidence from infant mental health and applies the learning to achieving healthy emotional development with older children and young people. The training uses the evidence based ‘Five to Thrive’ approach for building and maintaining healthy brain development and applies this to help strengthen brain connections at all ages. ‘Why people need people’ is aimed at practitioners working with Primary and Post Primary aged children and young people.  The training looked at the science behind how children’s brains develop and the importance of strong attachments and relationships to build resilience.

Enniskillen Castle Support Breastfeeding Awareness Week

Breastfeeding Awareness Week

Breastfeeding Awareness Week is this week and in truly Western style, I would ask that we could all come together and make this a very worthwhile week for families, particularly here in Fermanagh and Omagh. We can all become involved in some way, large or small in the theme for this year which is “What can you do to support a woman to breastfeed?”

This is a call to action from across the West for various organisations to support a woman to breastfeed as they fully understand that if a mother feels supported by her partner, family, workplace and the wider community we are all making breastfeeding more acceptable and encouraging mothers to breastfeed for longer.

The first to lead this call is Fermanagh & Omagh District Council who have led the way by agreeing to join the Western Trust scheme ‘Breastfeeding Welcome Here’ and to mark this, have lit up Enniskillen Castle and The Strule Arts Centre. The Council are also holding a reception, hosted by Mary Garitty, Chairperson, for the babies, mothers, staff, volunteers and  supporters of the ever more successful Breast Friends Group who meet on a Thursday in Darling Street, who are doing amazing work at pushing up our rates of sustained breastfeeding.

Open Invitation

If you, a parent / representative of your organisation to support our local mothers and encourage new members and attend the reception at:

                            1.15pm on Thursday 23rd June, 2016, Enniskillen Town Hall.

Alternatively, you may wish to attend the event being organised in the Bawnacre Leisure Centre, Irvinestown on Friday 24th with more details below of all the interesting information stands and workshops that will be shared with families.

If you cannot attend any of these events you can still be involved by encouraging your community, team, colleagues or organisation in this week to think about how they can increasingly support women:

  • Participating in Breastfeeding Welcome Here Initiative
  • Develop policy for breastfeeding mothers returning to work
  • Provide space for mothers to express or breastfeed.
  • Signpost/promote to breastfeeding groups and other support.
  • Allow time to attend antenatal classes.
  • Listen to mothers.

Please let Sarah Davidson sarah.davidson@westerntrust.hscni.net know how you have become involved this week or would like to be involved in the future and look out for messages that can be resent on your social media sites.

 

Cookstown/Magherafelt Recruitment Fair

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Young people and other members of the public in the Cookstown area found out more about volunteering opportunities at a recent Volunteer Recruitment Day in Cookstown. The free event was organised by Cookstown and Magherafelt Volunteer Centre in partnership with the Children and Young People Strategic Partnership (CYPSP). Cookstown Locality Planning Group. Continue reading…

Family Support and Information Day – September 2015

Parents and carers of children or young people with a disability or additional needs in the Cookstown area recently attended a support and information day at The Burnavon in Cookstown. The free event was organised by the Cookstown and Magherafelt Locality Planning Group in Partnership with Family Fund and the Children & Young People’s Strategic Partnership (CYPSP). Continue reading …..