Parents Plus is a social enterprise and charity who 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, education and disability […]
The JP McManus Benevolent Fund and Parents Plus Charity are offering sponsorship for free training places to professionals providing services to children, adolescents, and young adults with intellectual disability or special needs in Counties Limerick and Clare. The JP McManus Benevolent Fund will sponsor the training and post training supervision of professionals in two of the flag ship […]
‘The families and carers of young people and adolescents facing an intellectual disability have indicated that the services provided for their affected person are in need of improvement. Improving healthcare systems to better address the needs of these individuals, their families and carers has been identified as a priority in many countries. We are […]
A free online workshop for parents of children under 12. Thursday 13th January 2022, 7:30pm – 8:45pm Establishing positive family habits around healthy eating, family mealtimes, fun activity and restful sleep will make all the difference to your children’s health and well-being. In the midst of the ongoing Covid crisis, this has never been more […]
The Parents Plus Healthy Families Programme was launched last year and already shows positive results for families completing the groups. In partnership with UCD, we are now conducting a larger RCT study to determine its wider impact and are looking for services to help us. In return for taking part we can offer fully sponsored […]
Parents Plus Parenting when Separated Course – six week course for parents starting Thursday 15th April, 7:30 – 9:30p.m Delivered by Adele Keating and Michelle Choudhry, (two of the original developers of the programme) in partnership with Parentline . For more details go to www.parentline.ie/courses Topics covered in the course include: Communicate and co-parent effectively with your children’s other parent […]
Friday 19th March 12p.m. – 1 p.m. Prof John Sharry Drawing on the evidence-based Parents Plus Programmes, John Sharry describes practical ways parents can help themselves and their children cope and thrive after separation. In particular the talk will describe how you can learn to Communicate and co-parent effectively with your children’s other parent Maintain […]
