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"Supporting Parents is Supporting Children"
Brian Lenihan, Minister for Children, launched the Ballymun Partnership Seminar Supporting Parenting is Supporting Children at the AXIS Theatre Ballymun on Friday 10th November. Miriam OCallaghan the popular RTE broadcaster and journalist kindly agreed to give freely of her time to act as master of ceremonies.
According to event organiser, Noirin Coghlan Childcare Coordinator with Ballymun Partnership:
The most valuable experience any of us, as parents, can offer children is a relationship, which affirms and values, challenges yet respects. Parents also deserve nothing else
The aim of the seminar was to energise those working with parents to enter into such a relationship.
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Miriam O Callaghan receiving Dermot Bolger poem Ballymun Incantation framed by members of Youthreach Project which included Mandy Byrne, Debbie Sallinger, Natalie Gleeson and Natalie Mc Anaspie
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Back Row: Miriam OCallaghan, Minister Brian Lenihan, Declan Dunne CEO Ballymun Partnership, Dr Vincent Malony, Heino Schonfeld Director Centre for Early Childhood Development and Education. Front Row: Gladys Hand Local parent and crche manager, Noirin Coghlan Childcare Coordinator, Fionnuala Kilfeather Chief Executive National Parents Council.
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Miriam O Callaghan and Minister Brian Lenihan in the Axis crche.
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The Partnership would like to acknowledge and support the role of parents in Ballymun because it is critical to supporting local children. It is hoped that, from the seminar, the various agencies will value parents as key partners in the planning and delivery of health, education and childcare provision.
One hundred and fifty eight people registered to hear the speakers at the seminar who included:
- Dr Vincent Maloney, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
- Gladys Hand, Local Parent and Crche Manager
- Fionnuala Kilfeather, Chief Executive, National Parents Council
- Heino Schonfeld, Director, Centre for early Childhood Development and Education
- Declan Dunne, CEO, Ballymun Partnership
The seminar was organised by the Ballymun Partnership Parents Support Group. Their energy and enthusiasm has contributed to the success of the seminar.
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