Melanie Wins Best Practice Award

  • Jun, 2021
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Melanie Wins Best Practice Award
Melanie Murphy, Infant Massage Instructor with Preparing for Life, has won a Best Practice Award from The Story Massage Programme. The Story Massage Programme offers a fun and fully inclusive way of combining the creativity of story, song and rhyme with the benefits of positive touch. Everyone can...
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Home Visiting on Near FM

  • May, 2021
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Home Visiting on Near FM
Home Visiting Mentor, Caroline Creagh, spoke to Donie Tarrant on Near FM about Preparing for Life's Home Visiting Programme. Caroline discusses what Home Visiting entails, its origins, how it continues during Covid-19, dads' involvement and the positive outcomes it produces. Niamh O'Shaughnessy is a parent on Preparing for...
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Come along to our FREE Peep group via Zoom

  • Apr, 2021
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Come along to our FREE Peep group via Zoom
Peep sessions share simple ways of supporting your child’s learning and development in everyday life.  You can make a real difference just by talking, singing, sharing books and playing together. Come along - you and your child can make friends, share ideas and have fun through singing, story and...
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Preparing for Life Awarded RTE does Comic Relief Grants

  • Dec, 2020
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Preparing for Life Awarded RTE does Comic Relief Grants
Northside Partnership's Preparing for Life programme has been awarded 2 grants from the proceeds raised by RTE does Comic Relief. 672 grants totalling over €5.8 million were awarded to charities all across Ireland from funding raised by RTÉ Does Comic Relief and distributed by The Community Foundation for...
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Parenting Through A Pandemic (and Beyond)

  • Jul, 2020
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Parenting Through A Pandemic (and Beyond)
Parenting Through a Pandemic (And Beyond) is a bespoke workshop designed to equip parents to better support their children emotionally throughout the pandemic and beyond. It supports parents and caregivers of children aged 2 - 10 who reside in the Northside Partnership catchment area of north east Dublin.  The workshop series was developed by Preparing...
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Preparing for Life on Near FM

  • May, 2020
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Preparing for Life on Near FM
Sue Cullen talks to Donie Tarrant on Near FM about the challenges facing families during the Covid-19 pandemic and Preparing for Life has adapted to support them. Listen here ...
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