Chime’s family support team will provide parents and families with practical information and the emotional support they need to make informed decisions throughout your child’s development, from first diagnosis of hearing loss or deafness to navigating school and college. Chime understands that every family and child is unique with different needs and we aim to work closely with families on their wishes and goals. Chimes new Children and Family Support service will have a person centred ethos with one to one support facilitated by the Family Support Workers. Family and Person Centred Plans will be the mechanism by which the service will be facilitated.
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Sligo Leitrim and West Cavan Parent Hub
The parent Hub offers Information regarding all things parenting including parenting courses such as Parents Plus , supports, Webinars, talks or workshops which are upcoming, additional supports and signposting of services is also provided including parenting-24-seven. The Parent Hub offers information on different parenting programmes and supports such as Parenting24seven, and First5. For more information, please visit our new website at www.parenthubslwc.ie
The parent hub is run by Sligo Leitirm CYPSC, Tusla.
Leitrim Volunteer Centre
Our vision is to support the people of County Leitrim in further enhancing its places and ways of living as flourishing, vibrant communities, with volunteering at its heart. Volunteers have the potential to build local value, increase their social capital, become active citizens, and provide support to community development projects.
Leitrim Volunteer Centre aims to match volunteers to suitable volunteer opportunities within community-based organisations. This is a great opportunity to engage transition year students looking for work experience, college-bound students looking to improve their employability, Parents, guardians and children looking to engage in family volunteering, immigrants looking to meet people and learn about their locality, individuals looking for once-off micro volunteering opportunities that fit their schedule, professionals looking to share their knowledge, and retirees looking to become active. There is something out there for everyone and we can help you find a volunteering opportunity that suits your interests.
If you are considering volunteering or have questions about what it entails, please give us a call. We can help you identify what kinds of skills, knowledge and experience you would like to develop when giving your time to an organisation. We can also help you think about your interests and the kind of organisation that you would like to support. Please download the I-VOL app on your phone to find opportunities near you!
We very much look forward to helping you on your volunteering journey
Sligo Springboard Family Support Service
Sligo Springboard Family Support Service is a not for profit organisation established in 1996 in Cranmore, Co. Sligo and was known as Resource House Project. With over 24 years’ experience we understand just how difficult life can be at times. Based in Cranmore, we work with families from Sligo in Child and Family Support Network Area 3 (CFSN3).
We have a Family Support Service who work with families and children to alleviate stress, to overcome difficulties and to encourage each individual to reach their full potential. The specific supports we offer to families are as follows:
- Meitheal
- Parent’s Plus
- Non-Violent Resistance
- One-to One Interventions – Children & Young People
- Parenting Support
- Drop-In Support Service
Sligo Springboard Family Support Service have a Childcare Service that understands the importance of providing quality childcare that allows a child to learn and explore the world around them in a safe caring environment. To accomplish this, we implement a practical approach to curriculum development in combination with Aistear, the Irish Curriculum Framework, and Síolta, the Quality Standards Framework. Our Childcare Service provides the following services:
- Early Learning and Care,
- School Aged Childcare,
- Breakfast club,
- School bus,
- Homework support.
National Educational Psychological Service, Department of Education & Skills
NEPS stands for the National Educational Psychological Service. It is a service provided by the Department of Education and Skills. NEPS psychologists work with both primary and post-primary schools. We are concerned with learning, behaviour and social and emotional development. Each NEPS psychologist is assigned to a group of schools.
The following services are provided by NEPS:
- Consultation service to schools.
- Assessment service within an educational context.
- Direct and indirect inputs to schools.
- Support and Development work with schools.
- Critical Incident advice to schools.
- Reasonable Accommodations in Certificate Examinations (Leaving Certificate.)
Triple P Positive parenting Programme
Triple P is a proven evidence based positive parenting programme which is free to parents/ guardians of children up-to age 10 years in Sligo and Leitrim. The programme offers parenting information, tips and strategies to help parents respond to the issues that inevitably arise in families. It is a one of a kind multi-level system offering a suite of programs of increasing intensity catering to different levels of family need. The options are a once off 1 and 1/2 hour seminar which provide information to parents/ guardians who are generally coping well but have one or two concerns with their child’s behaviour or development.
Some of the options are: Raising resilient children or raising confident, competent children. Two hour workshops targeting a specific problem behaviour or issue like dealing with disobedience, managing fighting and aggression or developing good bed-time routines.
Groups run over a few weeks and provide support to parents/ guardians who want support in their parenting role, want to prevent problems, and help to manage behaviours and emotional problems.
For details of up-coming events check out the Parent Hub facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/SligoLeitrimParentHub/ Programmes are also advertised on public notice boards and in your local community.
To book a place or find out more contact Aolish at aolishsligochildcare@gmail.com or phone 087 7391569. Triple P is also available for a fee on-line-www.triplep-parenting.uk.net https://www.triplep-parenting.net/global/triple-p/?cdsid=i2a7gd2a41jllcup8bkvsafij5
Leitrim Sports Partnership
Leitrim Sports Partnership LSP provides a management role for the coordination, development and delivery of sport and recreational activity in Leitrim. In our new strategic plan, we plan to build on the achievements of the last four years where we have implemented a long term approach to increasing participation and the benefits of active and healthy living among the following key target groups, children, teenagers, families, adults, people with disabilities and disadvantaged communities. The LSP will continue to empower and work in partnership with all sporting partners and stakeholders on an on-going basis and facilitate effective working relationships between all agencies involved in the development of sport and physical activity in the County.
The main functions of the Leitrim Sports partnership is, information and support, to provide education and training opportunities and to support the development and implementation of Irish Sports Council and local key partners programmes and events in sport and physical activity.
M-PACT Moving Parents and Children Together
Moving Parents and Children Together provides free support and advice to professional agencies, individuals and their families through our Nine Week Programme, the Telephone and through our Online support/service.
M-PACT supports families to work together to understand how parental substance misuse has affected their lives. M-PACT promotes a whole family approach and focuses on helping and supporting families to make positive changes. The programme, which is free, helps build resilience and coping strategies by promoting positive and honest communication.
A programme can bring together up to eight families at any one time, where at least one parent has or had an alcohol or drug problem and where there is at least one child aged 8-17 years old. The programme runs for nine consecutive weeks. Each session covers a different topic, and combines separate group work with children and adults, work with family units and whole group work when all participants come together. Each family has a review session shortly after the programme ends and a reunion session, approximately three months later, bringing the families together for the final time.
Counselling in Primary Care Service (CIPC)
The HSE Counselling in Primary Care Service (CIPC) is a professional, confidential counselling and psychotherapy service available free of charge. The service is for people with mild to moderate psychological difficulties. It is a short-term counselling service that provides up to 8 counselling sessions with a professionally qualified and accredited Counsellor/Therapist.
It is a service for people who are 18 years of age or over, and who want help with psychological problems that are appropriate for time limited counselling in primary care.
The service is suitable for people who are experiencing certain difficulties such as:
- depression
- anxiety
- panic reactions
- relationship problems
- loss issues
- stress
National Counselling Service (NCS)
The HSE National Counselling Service (NCS) is a professional, confidential counselling and psychotherapy service available free of charge in all regions of the Health Services Executive. Our client group are adults who have experienced trauma and abuse in childhood with priority given to adult survivors of institutional abuse in Ireland.
