We are delighted to share details of our Facilitator Training Schedule at Parents Plus for autumn 2025, offering you an opportunity to build on your skills and enhance your service’s capacity to make a positive impact in the lives of the families you support. Our scheduled training takes place online. You can expect the following from […]
Since autumn 2021, Parentline and Parents Plus have had a very successful collaboration in the delivery of online Parents Plus programmes. The project began during COVID as a response to the high volume of parents reaching out to Parentline for support for themselves, and their children struggling with mental health challenges, including anxiety and depression, […]
Parents Plus co-founder and Clinical Director, Dr John Sharry, recently welcomed some of the over 150 Accredited Parents Plus facilitators to an engaging workshop for those wishing to integrate a neuro-affirmative approach to their work with parents. A neuro-affirming approach, like the Parents Plus model itself, is compassion-driven and celebrates each child’s unique experience and […]
Last week, Parents Plus was delighted to host our first in-person scheduled training, open to professionals from education, mental health and community sectors in the UK. Taking place at Lockleaze Sports Centre in Bristol over three days, we welcomed over 20 professionals to train in the Parents Plus ADHD Programme with Senior Trainer, Fred Ehresmann, […]
Parents Plus is currently seeking a candidate to fill a vacancy on our Board of Directors (Trustees). We are seeking applications from interested candidates, from a Public Sector background who have a passion for making a difference in your community and strengthening families across Ireland? Who We Are Parents Plus is a charity on a […]
Do you have expertise in HR and a desire to make a difference by helping to strengthen families across Ireland. Parents Plus is currently seeking candidates for the positions of external non-board members on the following subcommittees: HR and Remuneration Subcommittee External non-board members are recruited to join subcommittees to lend their particular skills […]
Developed in 2019 after a series of focus groups and workshops with families, the Parents Plus Healthy Families (PP-HF) programme is designed to support parents of babies and young children up to 12 years old to establish healthy habits that promote family health and wellbeing. Now, the results of a new randomised controlled trial published […]
This March, Parents Plus was delighted to be a contributor at the National Children’s Bureau’s Parenting Programmes Showcase for Northern Ireland. It was an illuminating morning hearing from some of the most prominent organisations delivering parenting programmes and training in Northern Ireland, as well as from representatives of the Public Health Agency and the […]
The JP McManus Benevolent Fund and Parents Plus are offering sponsorship for free facilitator training places to 10 professionals providing services to adolescents and young adults with additional support needs in counties Limerick and Clare. This sponsorship opportunity will also include materials in 2025. Last year, Parents Plus was grateful to receive funding from the JP McManus Benevolent Fund to sponsor 40 […]
Are you passionate about making a difference in your community and strengthening families across Ireland? Parents Plus mission is to improve outcomes and well-being for children, adolescents and their families by empowering professionals to deliver our evidence-based parenting and mental health programmes through their services in local communities. Parents Plus vision is that families in […]
