Calling all services for families in Limerick and Clare

The JP McManus Benevolent Fund and Parents Plus Charity are offering sponsorship for free training places to professionals providing services to children, adolescents, and young adults with intellectual disability or special needs in Counties Limerick and Clare.  The JP McManus Benevolent Fund will sponsor the training and post training supervision of professionals in two of the flag ship […]

develop an INTERREG application
Parents Plus is seeking partners to develop an INTERREG application

‘The families and carers of young people and adolescents facing an intellectual disability have indicated that the services provided for their affected person are in need of improvement.  Improving healthcare systems to better address the needs of these individuals, their families and carers has been identified as a priority in many countries.   We are […]

Free training in the new Parents Plus Healthy Families Programme

The Parents Plus Healthy Families Programme was launched last year and already shows positive results for families completing the groups.  In partnership with UCD, we are now conducting a larger RCT study to determine its wider impact and are looking for services to help us. In return for taking part we can offer fully sponsored […]

New Parents Plus courses open to the public
New Parents Plus courses open to the public

Parents Plus partner with ParentlineParents Plus are delighted to be partnering with Parentline to deliver four online parenting courses to the public this April 2021. The four courses for parents are:Parents Plus Early Years (1-6 years) starts Mon 12th April, 8 – 10pm.Parents Plus Children’s (6-11 years) starts Tues 13th April, 7:30 – 9:30pm.Parents Plus Adolescents (12-16 years) starts Wed 14th […]

Call out to all ‘Working Things Out’ Programme facilitators

Expression of interest applications are invited for the following opportunity If you are an experienced practitioner, who has regularly run the Working Things Out Programme groups with young people in your setting over the last few years, you may be interested in the following development. We are looking for a trained Working Things Out facilitator, […]