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We provide a range of post-training supports for facilitators and agencies who want to ensure sustainable and effective delivery of the programmes within their services.   Our training and supports are designed to improve outcomes for families, through our evidence-based parenting and mental health programmes. Research shows that families achieve the best outcomes when facilitators […]

Our programmes are for professionals who work in Community, Health, Education and Disability services and they’re backed by over 25 years of research and have proven benefits for families. In the last 10 years alone, we have supported over 1,000 organisations, in Ireland and internationally, to create sustainable change in their service delivery, strengthening over […]

As we approach the end of the year and begin to look ahead to 2023, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the past 12 months. So for our last update of 2022, we wanted to share some reflections on what has been another eventful year filled with much impact, as well as many things […]

Inspired by children, the RTE Toy Show Appeal works to bring the magic of the Late Late Toy Show to every child in Ireland. By funding essential support, health, well-being, play and creativity the aim is to change children’s lives for good. Parents Plus are delighted to be featured in the Toy Show Impact Report […]

Monday 21st of November saw the opening of the Festival of Learning from What Works Ireland and we were honoured to be asked to join the panel of experts and share the story of our first in-the-world Special Needs Programme. Roderic O’Gorman TD, Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth, opened the 3-day event […]

The Parents Plus Special Needs Programme for Professionals is a first in the world programme for families rearing an adolescent with an intellectual disability and was created to help parents to manage challenges, improve their family’s well-being and strengthen their links with other parents. Training for this unique and invaluable Programme is taking place on […]

The entire team at Parents Plus want to extend a huge thank you to everyone that attend our new ADHD Children’s Programme for Professionals launch seminar. Cherie Tyner Parents Plus CEO said “It was wonderful to have so many professionals from CAMHS, Primary Care, Education, Disability and Family support services join, all clearly wanting to support families with evidence-based […]

We’d love to hear from suitable candidates for the position of Office Manager with Parents Plus. At Parents Plus we are driven by our mission to improve the well-being of children, young people, and parents, and to strengthen families, by empowering professionals to deliver our evidence-based parenting and mental health programmes in their services. Our research, development, training and supervision enables community, health, […]

On the 27th June a special practice seminar took place to celebrate and support the work of the many practitioners who are delivering the PPSN throughout Ireland and the UK. View the webinar below to hear about how practitioners have successfully delivered the programme in a variety of settings, with a wide range of disabilities […]

Parents Plus has been awarded €300,000 from the RTE Toy Show Appeal grants for 2022 by the Community Foundation for Ireland. This funding will “change the futures of over 2,000 children, parents and families in the next two years,” says Professor John Sharry of Parents Plus. Professor Sharry says parents today need more support than […]