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Community Planning and CYPSP

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Liam Hannaway, Vice Chair of the Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership provided an update to partnership members at the CYPSP Executive workshop that was held in Mossley Mill in September 2016. Mr Hannaway fed back on the progress of community planning across Northern Ireland with a Newry, Mourne and Down District Council perspective. This provided an opportune moment for members to learn more about the community planning processes, how it will fit with current CYPSP strategic and delivery structures including family support hubs and locality planning groups and also how organisations can share their views during the consultation period for each Councils Community Plan over the next number of month. Read more…

 

Give Your Child the Best Start in Life! – Infant Mental Health Awareness Week

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The western locality planning groups brought together organisations delivering children’s services with families to support infant mental health awareness week from 6 – 10 June. A series of events took place across Enniskillen and Omagh. Representatives got involved and supported the event by painting their ring finger to highlight the importance of bonding and loving your baby.

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Delivering Social Change Stakeholder Update – March 2016

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Keep up to date with all the latest developments happening within the Delivering Social Change Stakeholder Update.  The latest update includes information on:-

  • Appointment of a new Comissioner for Older People
  • Our Population: What Matters Most
  • EITP – Getting Ready to Learn Project
  • EITP – Building Better Futures Project
  • EITP – Supporting a Social Enterprise for Care Leavers and Homeless Young People
  • Development of the next Children and Young People’s Strategy
  • Together: Building a United Community Strategy
  • Consultation on draft annual indicators for the monitoring and evaluation
    of the ‘Active Ageing Strategy 2016 – 2021’
  • The UN Committee on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
  • The Executive publishes Child Poverty Strategy
  • Childcare Strategy

If you would like to contact the Delivering Social Change Communications Team

Write to:

Delivering Social Change Communications Team

Finance, Strategic Planning and Social Change Directorate

Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister

Room E4.15, Block E

Castle Buildings, Stormont Estate

Belfast, BT4 3SR

dsccomms@ofmdfmni.gov.uk

028 9052 2640

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Family Support NI Website – Finding Information

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The Family Support NI website is a valuable resource for Families, Young People, Children and Practitioners in Northern Ireland to find local services to meet their needs.

The site provides details of a wide range of services provided by statutory, voluntary and community organisations to support families. You will also find details of ALL REGISTERED childcare providers in N.Ireland.  For an overview on the different ways to find information on www.familysupportni.gov.uk please click on the link below:

Family Support NI Flyer 

Symposium on Health and social care professionals’ family focused practice with parents who have mental illness, their children and families

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The School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast in partnership with the Health and Social Care Board wish to invite you to attend a symposium on:

Health and social care professionals’ family focused practice  with parents who have mental illness, their children and families

Date: Monday, 16 May 2016 with registration from 12.15pm

Location: Riddel Hall, Queen’s University Belfast, Conference Room 1

There will be presentations from Dr Anne Grant (QUB) and Mary Donaghy (Think Family NI Lead) in conjunction with three international experts in the area of parental mental illness, Dr Adrian Falkov, Sydney, Dr Bente Weimand, Norway and Dr Tytti Solantus, Finland. Presentations will focus on initiatives internationally and in Northern Ireland for families when parents have mental illness.

Light refreshments will be served from 12.15pm, with presentations to commence at 1.10pm. The symposium will come to a completion at 4.45pm.

If you would like to attend, please RSVP by Monday 2nd May 2016 to Amber Mulholland at amber.mulholland@qub.ac.uk

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