Empowering Parents and Carers

A Reflection from the Children’s Disability Network Team Mid-Wicklow The Wicklow Primary Healthcare Centre, and the Children’s Disability Network Team Mid-Wicklow (CDNT6) have been at the forefront of delivering the Parents Plus Special Needs Programme since it was launched in September 2020   The Parents Plus Special Needs Programme was developed to enable professionals to effectively […]

Parents Plus welcomes The Report on Aligning Disability Services with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Parents Plus welcomes this important report published by the Joint Committee on Disability Matters today. The report shows access to mainstream health services is severely impacted for people with disabilities due to inaccessible services, lack of expertise, therapies, & individualised services as well as a significant cost of disability & a lack of disability awareness […]

The Special Needs Programme at the launch of the Festival of Learning
The Parents Plus Special Needs Programme at the What Works Festival of Learning

Monday 21st of November saw the opening of the Festival of Learning from What Works Ireland and we were honoured to be asked to join the panel of experts and share the story of our first in-the-world Special Needs Programme. Roderic O’Gorman TD, Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth, opened the 3-day event […]

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Update from the ADHD Programme Launch Seminar

The entire team at Parents Plus want to extend a huge thank you to everyone that attend our new ADHD Children’s Programme for Professionals launch seminar. Cherie Tyner Parents Plus CEO said “It was wonderful to have so many professionals from CAMHS, Primary Care, Education, Disability and Family support services join, all clearly wanting to support families with evidence-based […]