Click on the brochure below for information on Merchants Quay Ireland’s Northeast Family Support Service. The new Family Support Service for the Northeast covers Counties Louth and Meath. It will be delivered by Merchants Quay Ireland (MQI) and is funded by HSE Addiction Service CHO8.
Shine (supporting people affected by mental ill health) highlight that this course aims to give you the knowledge required to understand the impact of and key issues surrounding depression and explore ways of managing it.
Date: 11th August 2022
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Online
Click on the link below for information on how to register your interest.
Innovation Recovery Understanding and Managing your Depression
Tuesday 02 August
The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, has announced the allocation of €409,000 to 25 organisations under the What Works ‘Sharing Knowledge’ Fund. The What Works initiative supports prevention and early intervention services for children and young people and is funded through Dormant Accounts Funding.
The ‘Sharing Knowledge’ Fund builds on the 2021 What Works ‘Learning Together’ Fund to support learning, share knowledge, open peer discussions and develop strong professional relationships.
The aim of the Fund is to support professionals working in children, youth, and family services with their learning requirements, peer interaction, project collaborations and knowledge dissemination. Projects considered focused on organising or accessing relevant learning/training sessions, while putting a strong emphasis on future collaborations between peers and disseminating learning to larger audiences, including networks. All applications were required to have a focus on prevention and early intervention.
The grantee organisations address a range of service needs, including family support, early learning and childcare, education, mental health, parenting support, domestic, sexual and gender based violence services, equality, inclusion and human rights and supporting those with a disability.
Minister O’Gorman said:
“I am delighted to award over €400,000 in funding to a range of promising projects to support professionals working with children and young people in the area of prevention and early intervention. This is funding that will make a real difference to the services being supported. These services and professionals play a vital role in supporting vulnerable children, young people and their families across Ireland.
“I am struck by the quality of the applications received and I know that this funding will provide practical support to services focused on providing high quality prevention and early intervention services. As we know early intervention can help children and young people to develop the skills they need to live happy, healthy and successful lives. It can improve the quality of children’s home lives and family relationships, increase educational attainment and support good mental health.”
Minister of State at the Department of Rural and Community Development with special responsibility for Community Development and Charities, Joe O’Brien added:
“This funding will come as very welcome news to these projects who are doing such vital work on the ground with young people in communities across Ireland. I recently visited one of these projects – Familibase in Ballyfermot- and was privileged to witness first-hand the breadth of services provided and the positive impacts that such early intervention and continuing outreach work can do to support young people and their families. The funding committed will enable projects such as Familibase to further widen their services and, crucially, reach even more young people with the offer of hope and opportunities for support, growth and success.”
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What Works
The What Works initiative, funded under Dormant Accounts, takes a coordinated approach to enhance capacity, knowledge and quality in prevention and early intervention for children, young people and their families, with a focus on those at risk of developing poor outcomes. At the core of the initiative is a desire to foster persistent curiosity amongst those working to improve the lives of children and young people in Ireland. What Works aims to support key groups working with children, young people and families to know what works, how it works and provide an evidence supported approach to the application of this work.
Sharing Knowledge Fund – Grantees
Twenty five grantees were awarded funding under the 2022 Sharing Knowledge Fund. These projects are listed HERE along with the project description, funding amount and the county/area in which the project is based.
Click on the poster below for information on an upcoming event from the Meath Wellness Hub.
For information on water safety advice when swimming click on the Meath County Council link below:
Water Safety Ireland have further information on water safety via the following links:
https://watersafety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Warm-Weather-Warning-12072022-Press-Release.pdf
On the week that the 3rd National Strategy on Domestic and Gender based violence has been adopted, we in Louth and Meath CYPSC’s are looking forward to launching a Resource Pack to affect change and create awareness in our communities.
Trim FRC is linking with local families and Kinship Care Ireland in order to set up a Peer Support Group in the area for those who look after the child(ren) of a relative or a friend on a full time basis. If you want to find out more or join the group, please contact: [email protected] or 046 9438850.
What is a Childminder Development Grant (CMDG)?
The purpose of the CMDG is to offer an incentive, in the form of a small capital grant, to Childminders to enhance and support their awareness of quality early learning and childcare.
The CMDG is designed to assist Childminders, already providing a childminding service in their own homes, to enhance safety/quality in the service through the purchase of small capital items, equipment, toys or minor adaptation costs. It may also give financial assistance to new or prospective Childminders with their initial set up costs.
All applicants must be committed to maintaining/improving the quality of their childminding service.
Phone: 046-9073010 Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.mccc.ie/funding_schemes_childminding_development_grant.asp
As part of our pride celebrations this year, Outcomers are launching their Proud in the North East celebration in June. Please click on the attachment below for recent press release:
In 2017, Navan School Completion Programme (NSCP) staff team with the support of Meath CYPSC, LMETB and Meath Springboard Family Support Services developed a workbook called;
“Mind the Gap” Transition Steps from Primary to Post Primary
The main aim of the workbook and its associated video is to assist young people successfully transfer from primary to secondary school. It encompasses exercises to help pupils negotiate second level time tables, teacher expectations, new environments and the journey from established social groups into new social relations.
In response to the needs of 6th Class pupils during this time, the Mind The Gap Steering Committee have taken the generous decision to continue to make the successful Workbook available online as a pdf. Please click on the link below to access the Mind The Gap Workbook.
Navan School Completion Programme MindtheGap Workbook
Hard copies of the Mind the Gap Workbook are available and can be ordered through [email protected]. The workbooks are very reasonably priced at €2 each to facilitate mass distribution. The Mind the Gap Steering Committee note from their experience that children absorb the learning best when completing hard copy material.
The online video resource that accompanies the workbook can be accessed by clicking on the following link: