Barnardos national database of parenting courses provides information for parents hoping to attend a parenting course in their own area. The database includes the details of parenting courses that are organised and delivered on a scheduled basis and parenting courses that are delivered by request. The database can be searched by location, by theme and to who the programme is targeted.
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Location: Meath,
This programme aims to develop learning and thinking abilities. The logo, a triangle (Greek letter 'D'), symbolises partnership with parents.
Location: Sligo town, Carrick on Shannon and Ballymote
Three courses offered: Power of positive parenting, Raising resilient children, Raising confident children, in numerous counties.
Locations: Carlow, Cavan, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow
Provide participants with an opportunity to update information on drugs and their effects. Explore attitudes and decisions related to substance misuse. Develop a family focused drug prevention strategy.
This course aims to prepare parent for first time parenting role, new addition to the family, anxieties/worries.
To provide a confidential one to one service to parents struggling to cope with their child, teenager or indeed their own behaviours with support, information and guidance.
To provide general parenting tips and advice for parents of children in the 12 months to 10 years range.
Visits centre around the individual needs of the parent. Provide support to all parents of children 0-5 years. Rapid response breast feeding support to help establish breast feeding routine in the early days.
To become empowered to meet the challenges of parenting.
To help parents create families who: Think more clearly; Connect more compassionately; Behave more response-ably; And live more joyfully.
Learn to look at what is behind the behaviour, the feelings and needs of the child; Develop the ability to see things from the child's perspective; Develop more awareness and consciousness about what is really going on in our relationship with our child and in relationship with self while we parent.
To equip parents with the skills and strategies required to parent effectively.
The programme aims to support parents and their children to: Address challenging behaviour within the family environment; Increase the levels of effective communication between parents and their children; Develop a number of key parenting skills to support improved relationships with their children.
To support parents in having more education about their child's needs.
This course aims to support individuals about the importance of relationships within family and community and how compassion and understanding the intention of behaviour brigs about personal change sand conflict resolution.
This is a 2 hour interactive and lively workshop designed to give parents researched information on aspects of family well-being, which can support them in their efforts to nurture the well-being, which can support them in their efforts to nurture the well-being of their family members.
Supports parents to resolve conflict, improve the family communication practicing clear and direct communication.
The aim of the programme is to promote positive relationships between parents and children.
This programme will enable parents to parent effectively through and after separation/divorce. It assists parents in shifting their relationship to a co-parent relationship while exploring obstacles that prevent co-parenting.
This programme assists in problem solving, effective communication skills and supporting children's play.
Helps promote your baby's social, emotional and language development at the earliest stage in your baby's life.
The programme aims to increase children's emotional, social and cognitive development, to promote positive social behaviours and to promote school readiness.
The aim of this programme is firstly to build positive relationships with children and then manage behaviour. The programme was developed to meet the needs of all parents and has been proven effective in general groups as well as those families with children who have ADHD diagnosis.
This programme aims to provide positive parenting and assist in behavioural management.
This is a practical course designed to help parents strengthen their parenting skills and reduce behaviour.
The programme's aim is to promote your toddler's safety and promote their social, emotional and language development.
A programme to raise awareness of the positive aspects of the word wide web with an emphasis on the dangers for children when using the internet and other associated technologies.
This programme aims to empower, encourage and educate fathers, mothers and others who parent in the holistic development of their children, with particular emphasis on the new born to age five years; to raise awareness of parenting as crucial in the development of community, and more.
Learn more about anger - what is really going on when someone is angry; The causes and contributing factors of anger, learn ways of exploring what might be contributing to the intense feelings of anger; and more.
This programme aims to explore issues that may affect the mental health of young people. Recognising depression in Teenagers. Communicating about self-harm. Risk factors associated with eating disorders.
The aim of this programme is to prepare the pre-teen/parent for move from more intimate setting to larger groups, more subject choices, more challenges, holding onto yourself when everything around you is changing/moving.
The aim of the programme is to improve the parent-teenager relationship and to provide parents with the skills and knowledge about how to be an authoritative parent, the changes that happen during adolescence and how that affects teenagers thinking and their relationships, how to put in place rules and consequences, how to build teenagers self-esteem, how to manage conflict and problems effectively and access support services.
The aim of this programme is to help parents to understand their child's need and respond, to understand the difficult behaviour is about how the child feels and what the child thinks so 'to get under behaviour', and if what you are not doing is not working, to respond differently. To be kind, firm but not cross, to be a good role model.
After taking part in this training for trainers, participants will be able to: Plan, design and deliver a 6 to 12 week Family Communications Programme; Understand the theory behind the Family Communications Manual; Understand and coach parents in the principles of clear and direct communication in the home for problem solving; and much more.
After taking part in this training for trainers, participants will be able to: Plan, design and deliver a ten-week Positive Parenting Programme; Understand the theory behind the Positive Parenting Manual; Be familiar with a range of approaches for managing difficult behaviour in children while raising self-esteem when parenting alone; and much more.
This training is a valuable service for parents who need help with an issue and can gain support. The sessions are one hour in duration and time to reflect and discuss, parents have a greater understanding of the child's behaviour and the reasons behind it. Parents leave with a clear understanding of how to respond in a way that works better.
The aim of this programme is for participants to become empowered to meet the challenges of parenting.
The aim of this course is to support parents to understand their child's behaviour and give them the tools to deal with challenging behaviour effectively, to support parents in parenting when they are: separating or divorcing, sharing parenting, parenting in a multicultural society, parenting alone, and more.
The programme aims to support parents in their valuable role so they can find their own solutions to childhood challenges and problems. To help their children learn and to be emotionally secure and happy.
The aim of this programme is to build on parents strengths and help them not only to solve discipline problems but to also have a more enjoyable and satisfying relationship with their children.
The aim of this programme is to help parents understand their child’s emotional world by learning to read emotional needs, and to support parents successfully helping children manage their emotions and develop their self-esteem and honour the child’s innate wisdom to be secure.
This programme is suitable for parents who are planning to separate or have already separated. Developed based on experience as a family mediator, Parents Plus facilitator, research and personal experience, this workshop looks at ways to help children/teens to cope with parental separation.
Based on the Parents Plus , this course covers all areas of parenting young children including positive parenting, positive discipline, the importance of play, expanding children's language, helping young children to learn new tasks or routines etc.
Based on the Parents Plus , this course covers all areas of parenting children aged 6 to 11 including positive parenting, positive discipline, solving problems with children, managing difficult behaviour and discipline problems.
This programme focuses on building positive respectful relationships within the family, improving communication as well as reducing conflict and increasing cooperation.
This programme focuses on building positive respectful relationships within the family, improving communication as well as reducing conflict and increasing cooperation.
Based on the Parents Plus , this course covers all areas of parenting teenagers including positive parenting, positive discipline, solving problems with children, managing difficult behaviour and discipline problems - helping your child to be more co-operative and keep rules, encouraging your child to help improve their confidence more.
Why do young people engage with substance misuse? What are the signs? The risks and dangers. To support a young person who finds himself/herself in this position. If there is a problem?
To develop and increase the resilience and reduce the risk factors for substance abuse in teens/young people. To improve the social competence, school performance in 12-16 year old young people. To strengthen the bond between the parent and child/teen. To enhance the parenting and coping skills of parents dealing with difficult family situations.
The Parents Plus Adolescent Programme is an Irish evidence based parenting programme that draws on well researched ideas on parent-child communication, relationship building and behaviour management.
Parents Plus Adolescents Programme: Getting to know and connecting with your children; Communicating effectively and positively; Listening to and encouraging teenagers; Negotiating rules and boundaries; Teaching teenagers responsibility; Managing conflict and aggression; Solving problems together; and Specific topics and challenges.
To support the development of parenting practices which nurture the well-being and development (social, intellectual and behavioural). Deepen our understanding of the potential for family relationships to build esteem and support the needs of each family member individual equally as well as the family as a whole.
The overall aim of the course is to support parents to be ‘good enough parents’ by taking time to care for themselves so they can be there for their children.
This programme is designed for parents, to help them understand more about conflict and how it is managed, and to reduce its potentially harmful effects on children. The workshop looks at conflict through the lens of the current economic climate and the specific challenges that recession can bring to family. The training is designed to help you understand the nature of conflict in relationships and some of its causes. Identify the protective factors which help reduce the negative impact of conflict on relationships. Recognise different types of conflict, how people respond differently. Understand the impact of conflict on children. Deal with conflict in ways that reduce the potentially harmful effects on children.
To discuss how parents can support their children with their education, social and emotional development. To focus on the important skills of listening, encouraging and connecting with your child/teenager. Empowering responsibility and self-awareness for the young person. Promoting confidence and self-esteem. Tools to equip the young person to make choices.
To discuss how parents can support their children with their education, social and emotional development. To focus on the important skills of listening, encouraging and connecting with your child/teenager. Empowering responsibility and self-awareness for the young person. Promoting confidence and self-esteem. Tools to equip the young person to make choices.
Private parent coaching can be arranged and tailored specifically to clients needs. The coaching draws on the required resources/workshops at Help Me To Parent including: Parenting Age 1 to 6, Parenting Age 6 to 11. Parenting Teenagers and Parenting After Separation or Divorce.
In order to address the challenges of parenting when separated, Parents Plus have developed a six week psycho-educational course for parents who are preparing for, going through or have gone through a separation or divorce.
This course does not propose to find magic answers but aims to help parents to gain the support of other parents and to find solutions for difficult situations. The focus of the course is positive and aims to build on your strengths as a parent and what you are already doing right.
Now in its second edition, the Adolescents Programme considers how parents can connect with and build good relationships with their teenage children, while also being firm and influential in their lives. The video illustrates well researched principles of effective communication and conflict resolution which parents can use with their teenagers.
An evidence based parenting programme package that draws on well researched ideas on parent-child communication and behaviour management.
The aim of this programme is to maximise their children's learning, language and social development, as well as reduce behaviour problems, while ensuring their children grow up happy and emotionally secure.
The programme aims to support parents in: encouraging children's learning, reducing behavioural problems, promote children's self-esteem and good parent-child relationships.
The aim of this programme is to prepare parents for first time parenting role, new addition to the family, and any anxieties/worries surround this.
During the 1: 1 mentoring and courses, parents have the time to reflect and discuss issues that are arising for them and leave with a greater under-standing of their own and their child’s behaviours and the reasons behind them and how to respond in more open and supportive ways.
This course aims to help parents of teenagers communicate better with their child using clear and direct communication skills. It also aims to build on family strengths, demonstrate conflict resolution and negotiation techniques.
Facilitated group-based information sharing and discussion sessions on parenting in different cultural contexts.
