Preparing for Life Celebrates 14 Years of Home Visiting

Oct, 2023
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Hip! Hip! Hooray! Preparing for Life celebrated 14 years of its Home Visiting programme recently by inviting families who took part in the programme fourteen years ago to a party in The Bell Building, Darndale. Dozens of families joined in the celebrations, including skincare tutorials, comedy, music,...

National Breastfeeding Week: PFL Home Visiting in Darndale Now Similar to National Breastfeeding Levels

Oct, 2023
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Over the last two and a half years, 61.3% of Preparing for Life Home Visiting participants started breastfeeding in the hospital and 58.1% were breastfeeding leaving hospital. On average, more than half of those that initiated breastfeeding continued to breastfeed for at least 6 months....

Darndale-based Home Visiting Programme Selected for Implementation in Chicago

Mar, 2022
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Preparing for Life (PFL), Northside Partnership’s Home-Visiting programme based in Darndale, has been selected by the University of Chicago's Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD), founded by Nobel Laureate, James Heckman, as the programme it will implement to measure the impact of Early Intervention on...

Graduation Celebration in Coolock Library

Mar, 2022
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Coolock Library was the scene of celebration, stories and dancing as 18 families marked their completion of the Preparing for Life Home Visiting programme. The children and their parents have taken part in the programme from pregnancy until they were ready to start school, with parents receiving regular...

Home Visiting on Near FM

May, 2021
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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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