yblive Winter 09/10
- Dr. Tony Bates and prize winner David Bennett from Ballymun Community Training Centre at the Jigsaw-youngballymun event "It's Good to Talk"
Focus on Services
In this yblive Winter issue, we focus on Jigsaw-youngballymun (our wellbeing and mental health service to teenagers and young adults), our first Conference - A Child Is Born - and our Infant Mental Health week with Dr. Deborah Weatherston in January 2010.
Jigsaw - youngballymun
Jigsaw-youngballymun was launched by Sylda Langford, the Director of the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs just a year ago at our 2009 Christmas celebration. We mark Sylda’s recent retirement in this issue with a reflection from our Chair John Dunne in The Last Word.
One year into the delivery of Jigsaw we bring you up-to-date on a number of angles of the work. In his article Craig Hodges from Headstrong places Jigsaw in the national context of Headstrong’s work around the country. We have perspectives on Wrap Around Facilitation – (WAF) - from Headstrong’s Helen Coughlan and from Angie Birch and the Outfit team in Ballymun Regional Youth Resource. youngballymun’s Catherine Mc Gowan and Ballymun Job Centre’s Lorna Powell fill us in on our youth mental health information and awareness raising lecture series – the Jigsaw Lunchtime Lectures.
Jigsaw-youngballymun is one of youngballymun’s six integrated services working to support learning and wellbeing across the life-cycle and Catherine McGowan, reflects in her article Life-Cycle on the significance of our life-cycle approach for work with teenagers and young adults.
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A Child Is Born Conference
Our first Conference on December 10th was a landmark event for youngballymun coming as it did at the midway point of our first five years of work. With the keynote address by President Mary McAleese the conference marked in a very tangible way the progress we have made in focussing on the importance of beginnings for children and for families.
Videos of the conference:
Infant Mental Health
Following on from the Conference and Masterclasses in December Dr. Deborah Weatherston Director of the Michigan Infant Mental Health Association spent a week in January in Ballymun to inform the development of the infant mental health strand of Ready, Steady, Grow.
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