That’s a Wrap for the Storytime Project 2025

Nov, 2025
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This year we had the pleasure of having 55 families join us for the Storytime Project! These are all local families who attend local early years services or primary schools from within the Northside Partnership catchment area. This year's special guest was Elayne Heaney. Elayne is an award-winning...

Nurturing Distributed Leadership in Early Years Services Report Launch

Nov, 2025
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A new report from Preparing for Life’s Early Years Team, in collaboration with five community-based Early Years Services in Dublin 5 and 17, explores how distributed leadership can be lived and sustained in practice. Click on this link to read the full report. Co-authored by Jelena Simic (Early Years...

Celebrating Breastfeeding Week 2025

Oct, 2025
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This week we celebrated National Breastfeeding week with a special coffee morning. The event combined a "Stay & Play" session facillitated by our Home Visiting and Early Years Education teams and a "Skin-to-Skin" talk from HSE public health nurses Emma Davoren and Susan Groarke. Vicky Maguire, HSE...

Building Big Futures Graduation 2024/2025 – A Celebration of Learning, Growth & Community Spirit

Jun, 2025
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Paul Rogers, Northside Partnership; Stacy Heavey, PFL Early Years Education; Liam Murphy, Principal Our Lady Immaculate JNS; Bernie Laverty, Area Based Childhood programme; Niall Sexton, Preparing for Life; Jelena Simic, PFL Early Years Education; Katy Cluskey, Senior Speech & Language Therapist, PFL; Shauna Byrne, Preparing for Life. We...

Preparing for Life at 14: A Landmark Study Confirms Long-Term Benefits of Home Visiting Programme

May, 2025
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A decade after the last home visit, young people who took part in Northside Partnership’s Preparing for Life (PFL) programme continue to show remarkable educational and health advantages compared to their peers, according to a newly published age 14 evaluation. This groundbreaking research, carried out by the UCD...

Babybunch Café is Back!

Mar, 2025
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Preparing for Life is delighted to announce dates for our next 6-week Babybunch Café. It will take place on Tuesdays 10.00-11.15am in the Darndale Belcamp Village Centre. The dates are: 22nd and 29th April 2025 6th, 20th and 27th May 2025 3rd of June 2025 (last day of group) Babybunch Café is a 6-week postnatal group...

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