IY Classroom Dina Classroom Dina is a unique programme which uses puppetry to strengthen children’s social, emotional and learning skills. 24 facilitators trained in Classroom Dina attended a Shared Learning event on the 24th May in DIT Grangegorman. Another Shared Learning session is planned for September. This exciting initiative will reach around 500 children by December 2017!

IY Baby with Baby Massage

We are delighted that Pobal have agreed to fund a

fourth run of IY Baby. Public Health Nurses

working in the D1 and D7 areas are currently

recruiting mothers and babies between 0-12

months for a July start. To date, nearly 50 mothers

and babies have benefitted from this valuable

programme.

Please contact Susan

Moloney (PHN) on

01-8892665 if you are

interested in attending

future runs.

IY Teacher Classroom Management (TCM)

In 2016-17 8 teachers and 77 children benefitted from this training. TCM is a prevention programme which encourages positive behaviour in children and prepares them for moving on within school.

IY Parent Programme

So far, 70 parents have engaged with this 14 week

programme which focuses on positive behaviour and

parent-child problem solving. In May parents from

Stanhope St., St. Gabriel’s N.S. and St. Mary’s

attended a Celebration of Participation graduation in

St. Laurence’s in DIT Grangegorman. If you live in

the D1/ D7 area and are interested in joining the next

run of this programme please contact Petra on

0871921311.

Dates for your calendar

June 9th Deadline for submitting Steering Group agenda items

June 13th Steering Group

June 15th Consortium Meeting with Dr. David Carey speaking on the

“Importance of the role of carer, educator or mentor on the life of the child”. (All are welcome to attend)

Grangegorman ABC May Steering Group Update

Sustainability

We are currently finalising details of the work involved around the sustainability of ABC and the process for tendering to

carry it out. Once this is done, we will circulate this information to Consortium organisations. Consortium organisations

with the capacity to deliver this sustainability project will be invited to tender for it.

Evaluation of Grangegorman ABC to date

We have agreed to carry out an evaluation of the ABC programme to date to help us understand what worked well, and

what we could do better or differently for the next phase of the programme. We are in the process of selecting and

appointing a suitable evaluator to carry out this work. The evaluation will be an opportunity for Consortium members

and other partners to have their say and to share everyone’s experience of ABC so far.

For more information, contact Mick Cowman, 4027626 / 0871523127 mick.cowman@dit.ie

Incredible Years (IY) Suite petra.hanlon@dit.ie

Dr. David Carey

Upskilling

In 2016 24 students enrolled in the DIT Level 7 Aistear and Síolta Implementation Programme (the early childhood curriculum framework for all children from birth to six years).

CDETB Adult Education Service in partnership with the Gateway Project are offering a Level 6 full award in childcare in the Dublin north-west inner city area starting in September This is a repeat of the successful Level 6 course in Gateway just finishing this summer. Participants should already have a QQI full Level 5 award in childcare (with Merits) and be working in a childcare setting.

Full details on eligibility and applications are

available from bernadette.sproule@aes.cdetb.ie

Doodle Den Doodle Den, an after -school literacy club for senior

infants’ children, has helped 120 children to date. The aim

of the club, which is run by Dublin 7 School Completion

Programme, is to engage children in fun reading

and writing activities.

Grangegorman ABC Update

We have reached outline agreement with CES and Pobal to redeploy our existing budget to the end of December 2017. This will

enable us to carry out evaluation of our programme with an external evaluator, and to commission a study, hopefully by one of the

Consortium members, on options for the Grangegorman area when ABC finishes: this is The Sustainability brief we talked about at

the Consortium meetings in December.

In March, we announced that the Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA), who have funded ABC with Atlantic Philanthro-

pies, had invited ABCs to apply for extra allocations to enable us to continue to December 2017. The catch was that there had to be

extensions of things we were already doing. This is separate to the above allocation which we already had; following discussions

with members and contracted organisations we have applied for about an extra €140,000. We expect to hear about this soon.

DCYA also announced that they will be bringing proposals to the Dáil at the October Budget to fund ABC to August 2018; after this

they hope to have developed their own proposals for a new Programme. We are confident that the Dáil will approve a new budg-

et. Members of the Consortium and the wider community will be invited to meetings to discuss all this later in the year as things

become clear.

Parent Child Home Programme (PCHP) PCHP is a "learning through play experience" for parents and their preschool children. It is designed to strengthen the natural bond between parent and child, and to encourage a love of learning. ABC is currently exploring how best to continue to support PCHP. To date, it has been supported by The National College of Ireland (NCI).

Issue :2

Referral Pathways

The ‘Stepping Up’ early years to primary school transition

programme began in 2016 when over 50 children from the

area took part! It is now in the process of being rolled out

for children who are moving from early years to school

this year.

Training sessions delivered by HSE specialists for early

years’ staff to support them in helping to make referrals

for children in their care have taken place. Workshops on

Speech and Language (28th March) and Psychological

Services (17th May) took place in Henrietta Street and were

well attended by early year’s staff. Feedback was very

positive.

June 2017 Newsletter

mailto:bernadette.sproule@aes.cdetb.ie