This event is open to all who have an interest in the future of supporting families within the Southern Health and Social Care Trust area. It will be held on Thursday 11th October from 12pm to 2pm (lunch included) at NIACRO, 6 Carleton Street, Portadown, BT62 3EP. For more information or to register contact kala@niacro.co.uk Download flyer here.
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EITP – Getting Ready to Learn Funding Information Sessions
Getting Ready to Learn is a project funded through the Early Intervention Transformation Programme, which seeks to support pre-school settings with DE Funded places to encourage and develop parental involvement in children’s early learning. This is to ensure maximum parental contribution at a crucial time in children’s early brain development.
The funding application process for 2017/18 academic year will open on Wednesday, 1 March 2017 and a number of information sessions will be held over the coming weeks for new applicants.
For more information on the Getting Ready to Learn Project and the Information Sessions please click on the links below:
EITP: Getting Ready to Learn Programme Update
The Getting Ready to Learn Project aims to support pre-school education settings with DE-funded places to encourage and develop parental involvement in children’s early learning to ensure maximum parental contribution at a crucial time in children’s early brain development.
Within Getting Ready to Learn, four key thematic approaches have been identified as particularly relevant to parents of pre-school children:
- Big Bedtime Read
- Education Works in Pre-school
- Happy Healthy Kids
- Ages & Stages, 3-4
Currently, over 350 pre-school settings are participating; holding workshops for parents to help them understand:
- how children develop, including attachment and brain development;
- the importance of parent-child relationships for the child’s development and behaviour;
- the importance of childhood education and learning; and
- the importance of healthy lifestyles and diet.
How to get involved?
All settings delivering the NI Pre-School Education Curriculum are eligible to participate. The next call for applications will open in March and close at the end of April 2017.
For further information please go to the following website: www.eani.org.uk/schools/getting-ready-to-learn or contact:
Nicola Mitchell, Research and Development Officer Programme Manager at:
Email: Nicola.Mitchell@eani.org.uk
Telephone: 028 90564047
Hilary McEvoy, Programme Manager at:
Email: grtl@eani.org.uk
Telephone: 02890 564 047
Getting Ready for Baby – Early Intervention Transformation Programme
The Southern Health and Social Care Trust has launched a new programme for first time parents.
Getting Ready for Baby is a new way of delivering care and supporting parents through pregnancy, preparing for labour and the early days of baby’s life.
The programme, for the first time in Northern Ireland, links antenatal appointments with parenting group support as Patricia McStay, Head of Midwifery and Gynaecology for the Southern Trust explains: “Having a baby is a very exciting time. Along with the physical changes the mother will experience, there is also a lot of new information for parents to absorb in preparation for their new arrival.
“Attending your antenatal care is very important for the physical health and wellbeing of both mum and baby. However, we also now know that antenatal education classes are just as important in supporting parents to cope with pregnancy, birth and right through to the early days with their new arrival.
“We are delighted to introduce ‘Getting Ready for Baby’ to the Southern Trust. By combining both antenatal check-ups with group education we hope to make it much more convenient for parents. The programme includes all the same information as our traditional ‘Parentcraft’ approach but also emphasises the importance of emotional health and wellbeing, helping parents to get to develop relationships with their baby and equipping them to give their child the best start in life.”
Parents get all their appointment dates at their first visit so they can make arrangements well in advance and will see the same midwife for both their education and care, allowing them to build up a relationship.
The programme is currently targeted at first time mothers with no health or pregnancy complications. Your midwife will advise at your booking appointment if you are eligible to take part in the programme and explain what is involved before you choose this option.
Getting Ready For Baby has been introduced through the Early Intervention Transformation Programme (EITP) a Northern Ireland Executive/Atlantic Philanthropies Delivering Social Change Signature Programme, funded jointly by the Delivering Social Change fund, DoH, DE, DoJ, DfC, DfE and The Atlantic Philanthropies. EITP aims to improve outcomes for children and young people across Northern Ireland through embedding early intervention approaches.
Department of Health Minister welcomes EITP EDGES Service showcase at Stormont
The Department of Health Minister, Michelle O’Neill addressed Health and Social Care providers at a recent Long Gallery showcase of the EITP EDGES Service. The EDGES Service is one of the projects funded through the Early Intervention Transformation Programme.
The Programme is funded jointly by five government Departments (Department of Health, Department of Education, Department of Justice, Department for Communities and Department for Employment and Learning), Delivering Social Change and Atlantic Philanthropies. Department of Health leads the implementation of this cross-government initiative.The aim of the service is to provide an evidence informed, specialist ‘earlier intervention’ service for young people primarily between the ages of 12 to 17 years, who are on the ‘edge of care’, custody and or education.
One parent who has three children who have benefitted from accessing the EDGES Service has said “EDGES is a totally fantastic group to be involved with and if I ever slip back I know for a fact they would be the first people that I would contact.”
To read more about the EDGES Service and the showcase event in the Long Gallery at Stormont click here
For further information about the service contact Helen Dunn, Health and Social Care Board at Helen.Dunn@hscni.net