Interagency is one of the five programme strands within the overall Better Finglas Programme. Interagency has been really important to both the creation and ongoing development of Better Finglas as many local and national organisations are actively involved in the wider consortium and within the current oversight structures. In order to evaluate this type of collaborative […]
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Home Visiting Training
Better Finglas delivered training for local Early Years Practitioners and Home School Community Liaison Teachers on home visiting. This training was funded by Tusla under the Parental Participation Seed Funding. The training was delivered to support professionals in working in partnership with parents and to carry out home visits. Training was delivered by Marian Baker, […]
Circle of Security – 10 Practitioners Trained
Better Finglas, with the assistance of a grant from the Dublin North West Area Partnership, have facilitated ten local professionals to train as Circle of Security Parenting Trainers. The Circle of Security Parenting programme is an attachment based parent reflection class for parents of children aged from birth to 5 years and is designed to engage […]
Better Finglas Spring 2017 Newsletter – Issue 1
Better Finglas has had a busy start to the year with the provision of new training to Early Years and Triple P Practitioners, promotional events in the community, and a successful application for seed funding to provide Circle of Security training in the community. This is all alongside the ongoing work in the original strands […]
National Síolta Aistear Initiative
The National Síolta Aistear Initiative is a new national training programme designed to support the coordinated roll-out of Aistear: the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework and Síolta: the National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education. Under this strand, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) have developed 10 hours of workshops to support early years practitioners’ understanding […]
Preparing for Baby Workshops
Are you pregnant and living in Dublin 11? There are free workshops now running in your area through a community based midwife service. Our community midwife runs ‘Preparing for Baby’ workshops in the community every Monday afternoon in the Wellmount Health Centre, Wellmount Road, Finglas. Topics covered in the workshops include, Healthy Pregnancy Preparing for labour and birth Caring […]
Teacher Talk Training for Early Years Practitioners
Better Finglas are delighted to be hosting the ‘Teacher Talk’ series of workshops for promoting Speech & Language development within Early Years Settings based in the Finglas area. These workshops will be delivered by two Senior HSE Speech & Language Therapists. We expect demand will be high, so please register your interest early. The details […]
Steps to School Photobook
As part of our work with local preschools and primary schools to support children’s transition from preschool to primary school, Better Finglas has created the ‘Steps to School Photobook’. This is a picture book with photos of local schools to help children engage in conversations about going to primary school. The Home School Community Liaison Coordinators were […]