Playful Parent Mornings

Nov, 2024
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Last February we launched our Playful Parents Pilot Programme in the Coolock library. Since then we have delivered 4 workshops, reaching approximately 55 families from within the Northside Partnership area. https://youtu.be/NkOIpLn7ajY These workshops have covered several topics including: • Introducing Sensory Play at Home • Supporting Language Development Through Play ...

PFL Home Visiting Programme on RTE Radio 1

Aug, 2024
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Professor Orla Doyle of University College Dublin discussed Preparing for Life Home Visiting with Philip Boucher Hayes on RTÉ Radio 1. Orla talked about the success of PFL Home Visiting, the importance of building positive relationships and how the programme has spread across the country. Click on link...

Preparing for Life's Early Years Education Team Introduces Biffy, our Building Big Futures Mascot.

Jul, 2024
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Biffy was created as a way of promoting our Building Big Futures (BBF) professional development programme. We wanted our mascot to not only promote our programme but also celebrate the achievements of the local early years services who engage with us. During the 2023/2024 academic year, we ran 3...

Preparing for Life Celebrates 14 Years of Home Visiting

Oct, 2023
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Hip! Hip! Hooray! Preparing for Life celebrated 14 years of its Home Visiting programme recently by inviting families who took part in the programme fourteen years ago to a party in The Bell Building, Darndale. Dozens of families joined in the celebrations, including skincare tutorials, comedy, music,...

National Breastfeeding Week: PFL Home Visiting in Darndale Now Similar to National Breastfeeding Levels

Oct, 2023
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Over the last two and a half years, 61.3% of Preparing for Life Home Visiting participants started breastfeeding in the hospital and 58.1% were breastfeeding leaving hospital. On average, more than half of those that initiated breastfeeding continued to breastfeed for at least 6 months....

Darndale-based Home Visiting Programme Selected for Implementation in Chicago

Mar, 2022
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Preparing for Life (PFL), Northside Partnership’s Home-Visiting programme based in Darndale, has been selected by the University of Chicago's Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD), founded by Nobel Laureate, James Heckman, as the programme it will implement to measure the impact of Early Intervention on...

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