In partnership with a private donor, Rethink Ireland announced Parents Plus as one of eight awardees from strand 1 of their Entrepreneurship Impact Fund. This €3 million three-year fund will support the eight innovative social organisations to achieve higher levels of impact by scaling their innovations and reaching their next stage of growth.
Rethink Ireland highlighted that “Ireland faces continuing critical social issues across health, education, equality, and the green transition sectors. One of the key problems confronting social innovations is the difficulty of scaling their operations and social impact. Insufficient funding in terms of both scale and duration to align with their aspirations, as well as a shortage of suitable capacity-building supports are key main barriers.”
The Entrepreneurship Impact Fund’s Strand 1 will address these challenges by providing multi-year funding and targeted support in the areas of scaling, investment and procurement readiness, organisational resilience, leadership, impact measurement, and financial sustainability. The eight innovative and change-making projects awarded under strand 1 of the Entrepreneurship Impact Fund will drive social change with greater impact, increased scale and long-term sustainability through individual and collective solutions in the areas of green transition and enhanced social inclusion, accessibility and equality – achieving transformative social impact in communities across Ireland.
Speaking of the news, CEO Cherie Tyner explained what the programme and funding means to Parents Plus, “By working in partnership with Rethink Ireland over the next three years, and investing in the infrastructure Parents Plus needs to scale deeply, together we will create lasting, positive outcomes for thousands more families and communities, and the services set up to service them. On behalf of all of the team and board of trustees at Parents Plus, we would like to extend a massive thank you to Rethink Ireland and the private donor for selecting Parents Plus.”
Northumberland Case Study: Working with Separated Parents
Background
Family hubs offer universal and targeted support for all children and families, including those where parents have separated or are separating.
Family Solutions Group highlighted that in 2021 there were 2.3 million separated families in the UK, affecting 3.6 million children. The report What about me? A child’s right to matter recommends that family hubs “recognise children whose parents separate as a discrete target group in need of support and direct services through the national family hub programmes.”
Building capacity of services to improve outcomes for children and families.
As we look back on 2023, we would like to acknowledge the impact made possible with the services we work with, across mental health, disability, family support, education and youth services.
Through building the capacity of these services to improve outcomes for families by training and supervising their teams to deliver and evaluate our evidence-based parenting and mental health programmes, we continue, together, to ensure that families can avail of proven parenting support, at their point of need, and in the their local communities.
Together, we have continued to deliver on our mission, and we look forward to even greater impact in the future.
I am pleased to present Parents Plus Annual Report 2023, which is an important opportunity to look back at 2023, spotlight our charity’s key achievements and activities, and acknowledge the challenges facing our sector.
As a small Irish charity, with over 25 years’ experience researching and developing evidence based parenting and mental health interventions for services supporting families, I am incredibly proud of the invaluable work and collective commitment of Parents Plus team, and voluntary board of trustees, to deliver on our mission to improve outcomes for children, adolescents and their families, by empowering professionals to deliver and evaluate our programmes through their services in local communities. Without you, none of this life changing work would be possible.
Our model of developing tailored parenting and mental health interventions in partnership with services and families for services and families, means that teams are better equipped to work collaboratively with parents to achieve the outcomes they define for their family, with our proven programmes, supervision, evaluation and outcome tracking. Indeed, our model of reinvesting all profits made from sale of our professional parenting and mental health intervention packages into development of new programmes to respond to the evolving needs of families, and in sponsorship of services with limited funding, to train in our programmes, emphasises our steadfast commitment to working together with community, mental health, disability and education services, to improve outcomes for families.
I would like to extend a special thank you to our funders of 2023 including The Community Foundation Ireland and The RTÉ Toy Show Appeal, An Pobal and The JP Mc Manus Benevolent Fund. We are extremely grateful for your support, which enables us to continue to provide our evidence-based and subsidised services at affordable rates to services supporting families, children and adolescents.
Building on the work done in 2022 to increase the impact of Parents Plus charity, and guided by Parents Plus Strategic Plan 2022 – 2025, developed in partnership with Rethink Ireland, 2023 was an extremely busy year for Parents Plus with the charity working with over 900 professionals across the community, mental health, disability and education sectors. The charity trained over 740 professionals in the delivery of our suite of evidence-based programmes and provided supervision and implementation support to 283 practitioners. We also delivered seminars to a range of professionals across Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS), disability, family support and education, in key areas such as ‘Improving outcomes for children with ADHD by empowering parents’, and master classes in Solution-Focused Groupwork.
A significant milestone in 2023 was the announcement in December of Parents Plus three year partnership with the HSE. The partnership with HSE Disability Division, will see our charity work with the 92 Children’s Disability Network teams (CDNTs) and provide our proven trainings and implementation support for 160 practitioners over the next three years, to build their capacity to improve outcomes for families with evidence-based parenting support, the Parents Plus Early Years Programme and Special Needs Programme, as well as provision of tailored workshops on the Parents Plus Solution Focused Model of working with families, and supervision, accreditation and evaluation support.
Other notable milestones of 2023 include the continued RTÉ Toy Show Appeal transformative grant funded delivery of online Parents Plus programmes to families via Parentline, ADHD Ireland and the Midwest Parenting When Separated Project, as well as the JP McManus Benevolent funded training and supervision of services in Limerick and Clare in the delivery of the Parents Plus Special Needs and Early Years Programmes.
2023 saw Parents Plus charity continue to build the capacity of a wide range of public and community and voluntary sector organisations to improve outcomes for families and children, including the TUSLA Traveller Project, the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) to roll out the Adolescents and Working Things Out programmes in secondary schools, and supporting the Tavistock and Relate services in the UK to deliver the Parenting when Separated Programme.
The charity also continued to invest in infrastructure to support growing the impact of our evidence-based services, including investment in HR consultancy, external governance review, PR expertise, SORP reporting, and salesforce functionality, all continuing to enhance delivery of high standards of governance and regulatory requirements, as well as our purpose and mission.
Without question, as with all services in the charitable sector, the economies we are working in remain challenging. Many of the services we worked with in the UK in 2023 experienced significant budget cuts. Parents Plus also experienced the challenges of rising costs to deliver our services across, for example, print and distribution. Nonetheless, the need for our services has increased considerably, and the charity has observed gradual recovery and steady progress.
As a member of the Parents Plus team since 2019 I was proud to accept the position of CEO of this invaluable charity in June 2023. The issue of inequitable access to proven parenting interventions for parents raising children, via services in their local communities, remains a challenge. However, as we embark on 2024, we are confident that as a team, and with the services we support, we can and will collectively make a significant positive impact in driving our mission forward and achieve our vision of a country where families in need have access to proven and tailored parenting tools from the services they turn to, in their communities, early on in their journey, improving their outcomes and preventing difficulties arising.
The team at Parents Plus would like to extend a special thank you to our funders of 2023.
Including The Community Foundation Ireland and The RTÉ Toy Show Appeal, An Pobal and The JP Mc Manus Benevolent Fund.
We are extremely grateful for your support, which enables us to continue to provide our evidence-based and subsidised services at affordable rates to services supporting families, children and adolescents.
The Core delivery of the Parents Plus Early Years programme (PPEY) is an alternative to the original delivery format of the programme. The concepts of the original programme and the written materials for parents have been adapted to become more accessible to a wider range of parents.
This alternative delivery allows facilitators to run the programme with individual families in a flexible manner, shaped to their needs over an extended period of time.
For facilitators already trained in the PPEY, we offer a special one-module training on May 28th, 2024, to demonstrate how to use the PPEY Core Programme, which includes an introduction to the new format and content, a recap of solution-focused video feedback skills, and copies of the new Parent Pack and Facilitator notes.
This special one module training to show you how to use the PPEY Core will take place on the8th October 2024 (9:15am-1:30pm) online via Zoom.
This training workshop will – *Introduce you to new PPEY core format and content * Recaps on skills of solution-focused video feedback Copies of the new Parent Pack and Facilitator notes are included.
You can book a place on this special one-module training via the button below.
We are offering a series of comprehensive training sessions across our evidenced-based programmes, designed to empower professionals like you to make a significant impact in the lives of families and children you work with.
From the early years to adulthood, and also supporting complex needs, the Parents Plus suite of evidence-based parenting and mental health programme trainings for professionals will equip you with the skills, practical strategies, and ongoing support, to improve outcomes for the families and children you work with.
Whether you are new to Parents Plus or looking to expand your expertise, these sessions provide invaluable tools and insights.
Only open to facilitators previously trained in Early Years Programme. This alternative delivery allows facilitators to run the programme with individual families in a flexible manner, shaped to their needs over an extended period of time. The programme is suitable for parents who may have an intellectual disability or mental health issues; have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs); not use english as their first language; live in unstable accommodation; or be isolated or not engaged in services.
Dates: June 17th, 19th, & 20th Time: 9.15 AM – 1.30 PM
Tailor your skills to support families raising adolescents with intellectual disabilities. The Parents Plus Special Needs Programme is practical, solution-focused and draws on parents strengths. It is suitable for professionals including social workers, therapists, teachers to assist parents who are raising an older child or adolescent with a mild, moderate or severe intellectual disability, and who may also have an additional diagnosis, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or a physical disability.
Dates: June 19th, 20th, 21st, 24th, & 25th Time: 9.15 AM – 1.30 PM
Enhance your ability to assist parents in managing behaviour and fostering positive emotional development in children.
This programme provides in-depth training on managing behaviour and emotional challenges, building self-esteem in children, and reducing parental stress.
The Children’s Programme facilitator training is suitable for a range of professionals, including:
– HSE Primary Care Teams such as Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Public Health Nurses – Family Resource Centres – Children and Young People’s Services Committees – Home School Liaison Officers (HSCL), TESS – Primary School Teachers. – TUSLA Parenting Support Champions Project – TUSLA Child and Family Agency Teams – Regional Parent support networks such as Parenting Monaghan, Parent Hub Donegal and Parenting Limerick – Area Based Childhood Programme (ABC) such as Supporting Parents & Early Childhood Services (SPECS), Bray – HSE Sláintecare Healthy Communities
Dates: June 26th, 27th, 28th, and July 1st & 2nd Time: 9.15 AM – 1.30 PM
Learn strategies to support families raising an adolescent through their critical developmental changes and challenges.
The Parents Plus Adolescent Programme facilitator training is practical and solution-focused and will provide you with the essential skills and learning to achieve the best outcomes for the parents and families who attend your service. The training focuses on:
– Developing an in-depth understanding of this programme. – Delivering the programme via face-to-face and online sessions to groups and individual families. – Providing opportunities to observe and practise the skills to become a solution-focused facilitator. – Building on parents’ strengths as a basis for ongoing change. – Strengthening inter-agency and community partnerships
Don’t miss the opportunity to enhance your skills, expand your knowledge, and make a positive impact on the lives of children, adolescents, and families. Join the Parents Plus Programme Training this Summer and unlock your potential, connect with a community of professionals, and embark on a fulfilling growth and professional development journey.
To reserve your spot or find out more about any of our programmes, please visit our booking page or contact our Impact Lead Vicki Byrne directly at vicki@parentsplus.ie
We encourage you to book early as spaces are limited and fill up quickly. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your skills and expand your professional network this summer.
We look forward to having you join us for these enriching experiences that promise to enhance your expertise and enable you to provide even greater support to the families and children work with.
The Parents Plus Adolescents Programme is an evidenced-based training is designed to equip professionals with the knowledge, skills, and techniques they need to help adolescents navigate the complexities of this transitional phase of life.
About the Programme Training: Adolescence, a time of significant developmental changes, can present unique challenges that require the understanding and support of trained professionals. At Parents Plus, we have developed the Adolescents Programme Training for professionals, an evidence-based approach focused on empowering adolescents, enhancing communication, and fostering strong relationships.
Programme Details: The programme comprises a comprehensive training package of active learning. It includes group activities, role-plays, video observation, and feedback sessions, ensuring that each participant receives hands-on experience and comprehensive insights into the programme’s methodologies. The next Parents Plus Adolescents Programme training is on the 26th June.
Key Benefits – Participating in this training provides several key benefits:
Skills Development: The training sharpens essential skills for professionals such as active listening, problem-solving, and conflict resolution.
Evidence-Based Approach: The programme is based on extensive research and has proven efficacy in various settings, ensuring you are employing techniques backed by scientific evidence.
Improved Outcomes: The programme’s focus on strengthening relationships and promoting positive behaviour and communication ensures better outcomes for families raising an adolescent.
Ongoing Support: Post-training, participants gain access to ongoing supervision and support from the Parents Plus team, assuring continuous development and learning.
The Adolescents Programme Training from Parents Plus represents a great opportunity for professionals in the field. The training offers the chance to deepen your understanding of adolescent development, sharpen your practical skills, and be a part of a community dedicated to supporting families raising an adolescent.
The Parents Plus Working Things Out Programme provides professionals with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) strategies to equip young people with coping skills, helpful thinking strategies, improved conflict resolution and communication skills, and reduced stress levels.
This evidence-based programme builds on young people’s strengths and positive relationships with their families, peers, schools, and communities. The programme can be used by professionals as a preventative mental health measure to promote positive coping or as an intervention for young people with identified mental health problems.
Below is the experience of North Somerset Family Support Worker, Leanne Pugh, of running the Parents Plus Working Things Out Programme:
“My name is Leanne Pugh and I am a Family Support Worker in North Somerset. So far, I have experience of running and co-facilitating one Parents Plus Working Things Out programme.
We ran this programme for eight weeks, in-person and the feedback has been incredible. We have witnessed the young people flourish. The biggest impact appears to be the relationship the young people have developed with their parents. We ran the programme alongside the Parents Plus Adolescent Programme, and it was a really successful way of doing it.
Here are some of the things we heard from the programme attendees:
“My mum came and sat in my room last night to chat”
“We actually went for a family walk”
“My sister stole my makeup again and I didn’t react instead, I told my mum”
The parents on the Parents Plus Adolescent Programme all gave positive feedback too:
“I’ve been using the pause button and it really helps”
“We played a game together at the weekend”
“She has grown so much in her confidence”
“Parent Plus programmes are really straightforward and easy to deliver. You get all the information you need to deliver the course, and from the very first session there are tips and ideas for the families to try at home.
“Parents Plus offer ongoing support and deliver their training in a fun way. If you get the chance to deliver the Parents Plus Adolescent Programme alongside Working Things Out, I would highly recommend it.”
Studies have shown that young people who complete the Working Things Out programme report improved coping skills, reduced behavioural and emotional problems, improved family communication, and significant gains on personal goals. Parents Plus provides a comprehensive package of pre and post-training supports to professionals and managers, including implementation support, individual and group supervision sessions, advanced training workshops, extra resources to facilitate delivery, support to promote and market your Parents Plus courses, and advice and guidance on evaluating and monitoring outcomes in your agency.
Completing the two-day Working Things Out Programme training will license you to co-deliver the programme under supervision in both group and one-to-one sessions with parents. For facilitators who want to take their practice to a higher level, Parents Plus also offers an established accreditation process to refine their facilitation skills and professional practice and reach a high standard of delivery.
The Working Things Out Programme offers a comprehensive, evidence-based solution for professionals to equip young people with positive coping mechanisms and a healthy mental health outlook. With the right skills and knowledge, professionals can make a significant difference in the lives of young people experiencing mental health concerns, difficulties, and conflict.
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Blanaid Gavin explains that “The Parents Plus ADHD Programme is a fundamental tool to effective ADHD care. Professionals develop a greater understanding of ADHD, the real-life challenges of parents and how to most effectively use helpful solution focused therapeutic strategies to enable positive behaviours.
Professionals also gain confidence from the use of a structured programme using evidenced based strategies. Through experiencing the encouraging outcomes of the programme, this enhances therapeutic optimism, and in itself is key to professionals’ ability to facilitate constructive change.” The critical need for and value of early access to evidence-based and tailored parenting interventions for families raising a child with ADHD through their local NHS CAMHS services cannot be underestimated. It is a key component of ensuring mental health and wellbeing of children with ADHD, their parents and siblings. The Parents Plus ADHD Children’s Programme addresses the needs of parents of children with ADHD aged 6-12 years, and can help prevent serious secondary problems, such as self-harm and substance misuse, from affecting children with ADHD as they grow older. The programme utilises a solution-focused approach with facilitators introducing and exploring topics and parents’ problem-solving solutions as a group.
Furthermore, due to its group nature, the programme is cost-effective as it supports large numbers of service users with limited staff/time. It can also be delivered on a one-to-one basis, and improves mental health teams’ overall service delivery to families raising a child with ADHD.
Speaking of its effectiveness, NHS CAMHS Gloucestershire, Lisa Whitlock shares the impact of delivering the programme, “We had one hundred percent improvement on parent goal-based outcomes, and one hundred percent of parents reported the programme had a positive effect on their family.”
NHS CAMHS Registered Physician Associate, Rebecca Taylor explains, “Running the Parents Plus Children’s ADHD Programme in Tower Hamlets makes you remember why you do what you do. It is rewarding and a privilege to see parents feel supported on their journey with this programme.”
The proof is in the evidence: The Parents Plus Children’s Programme is robustly evidence-based and two randomised controlled trials conducted in clinical settings attest to its effectiveness for families with children with ADHD.
Study 1 – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Ireland, RCT study Compared to the control group parents completing the programme showed significant reductions in:
Reductions in children’s total difficulties and conduct concerns
Decreased parental stress and increased parental confidence
Improvements in parent goals
Gains maintained at five-month follow-up.
Study 2 – ADHD Mental Health Service, Turkey RCT study The children in the study were aged 6–11 years, and they had been diagnosed with ADHD and had residual symptoms despite the effective dosage and timing of their medication. Compared to the control those in the programme group improved significantly more overtime on –
Conners’ Parent Rating Scale-Revised
Family Assessment Device
Parent Stress Index
This trial is the first clinical study involving the parents of children with ADHD that addresses residual symptoms and functional impairments that remain despite the administration of the maximum effective dose of pharmacological treatment.
By training as a facilitator of this programme, you will learn how to support parents to:
Understand the challenges and strengths of ADHD
Manage behaviour and emotional problems
Build their children’s self-esteem and confidence and reduce their stress
Understand the role of medication and other treatments
Manage homework and education challenges
Help their child talk about and understand ADHD
Support children’s friendships
The professional programme training focuses on:
Developing an in-depth understanding of the needs of families raising a child with ADHD
Delivering the programme via face-to-face and online sessions, to groups and individual families
Providing opportunities to observe and practise the skills to become a solution-focused facilitator
Building on parents’ strengths as a basis for ongoing change
Strengthening inter-agency and community partnerships
NHS CAMHS Nurse Therapist, Nonsi Mabhena adds, “Through training in and delivering the Parents Plus ADHD Children’s Programme in our service, parents experiences are validated, they are supported to know that they are not terrible parents. Parents learn that there are many positives to having ADHD and raising a child with ADHD, and to understand that often it is the world around us that is not designed to support these children.”
The Parents Plus Supports Package: Research shows that families achieve the best outcomes when facilitators and their managers are supported pre and post-training to deliver programmes. Parents Plus charity provide a comprehensive package of pre and post-training supports to our facilitators and managers to ensure a sustainable and effective delivery of the programmes within their agency.
Our supports include the following:
Implementation support to get groups off the ground, including planning workshops and coaching for managers.
Access to two individual supervision sessions free of charge in the first year post-training.
Advanced training workshops on specific topics.
Extra resources to facilitate delivery, e.g. fliers, posters, certificates, practice articles, parenting articles, and supplementary handouts.
Support to promote your Parents Plus courses in your community.
Advice and guidance on evaluating and monitoring outcomes in your agency to ensure your groups are effective.
Sponsorship for further supervision is available on the application.
The Parents Plus Programmes are robustly evidence-based and currently over 27 studies conducted in clinical, disability and community settings attest to their effectiveness for families with children and adolescents of all ages, dealing with a variety of challenges and issues. For example, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Alan Carr, University College Dublin, presented a meta-analysis of the Parents Plus evidence base. This analysis, conducted with over 1,000 families, highlights the significant benefit for families who attend the Parents Plus courses, both post-treatment and at follow-up. The study was published in the International Journal Family Process.
For more information on the Parents Plus ADHD Programme and how it can benefit your teams and the families you support, please contact our Impact Lead, Vicki Byrne at vicki@parentsplus.ie. Our charity also provide onsite training, team supervision, and tailored packages of support to ensure the successful rollout and evaluation of our evidence-based programmes.
“My name is Susi Wakely and I am a Senior Educational Psychologist at Falkirk Council, Scotland.
The Parents Plus Early Years programme (PPEY) is a 7-week-long course delivered by professionals. At Falkirk Council, the programme was delivered to families of children with significant additional support needs.
Speaking of the programme, Senior Educational Psychologist, Susi Wakely explains,
“The Parents Plus Early Years programme materials encourage parents to connect with each other and feel empowered to support themselves. They emphasise the power of the group dynamic, creating a safe space where parents can be more authentic and share hard truths. This means parents freely giving tips and advice to each other.
I work with some of the families in my casework and I can see the increase in the engagement and confidence of the parents who attended our first group.
Over the weeks we witnessed the added benefits of the programme in supporting the wider families. Parents who attended shared with their partners who were unable to attend, or the parents took it in turns to attend, and one couple attended together. In the second to last session, the husband who attended with his wife openly praised her on the strategies she was using from the programme already. He is by nature a very reserved man and it was powerful to see him come out of his shell and openly praise his wife in the group. They have a child with significant ASN and shared how isolated they had felt prior to coming to the group.
Parents Plus deliver a cost-effective, strengths-based series of parenting programmes. Parents are fully engaged and take ownership of the group. My co-facilitator Alice says it is a group for parents, not a parenting group. The programme fits well with our relationship-based service values.
The Parents Plus team are true to their principles and values – they empower us as facilitators and believe in us as much as we then believe in the parents. They could not be more supportive as an organisation – they want to make it as simple as possible for you as a professional to be trained and get going with a programme. There are no unnecessary barriers and costs with accreditation processes.
You are trusted as a facilitator to work with the materials and make them work for the group of parents you are supporting. This is a very different approach to other parenting programmes.
The materials in the programme are high quality, too. Parents loved the glossy parent books and enjoyed the videos. We had only to sift through the contents each week to pick out the activities and assets that would be most appropriate for our ASN group and did not need to modify anything.
We’d like to say a big thanks to Parents’ Plus for their support in getting our programmes up and running in Falkirk.”
The Core delivery of the Parents Plus Early Years programme (PPEY) is an alternative to the original delivery format of the programme. The concepts of the original programme and the written materials for parents have been adapted to become more accessible to a wider range of parents.
This alternative delivery allows facilitators to run the programme with individual families in a flexible manner, shaped to their needs over an extended period of time.
For facilitators already trained in the PPEY, we offer a special one-module training on May 28th, 2024, to demonstrate how to use the PPEY Core Programme, which includes an introduction to the new format and content, a recap of solution-focused video feedback skills, and copies of the new Parent Pack and Facilitator notes.
This special one module training to show you how to use the PPEY Core will take place on the28th May 2024 (9:15am-1:30pm) online via Zoom.
This training workshop will – *Introduce you to new PPEY core format and content * Recaps on skills of solution-focused video feedback Copies of the new Parent Pack and Facilitator notes are included.
You can book a place on this special one-module training via the button below.
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Rethink Ireland highlighted that “Ireland faces continuing critical social issues across health, education, equality, and the green transition sectors. One of the key problems confronting social innovations is the difficulty of scaling their operations and social impact. Insufficient funding in terms of both scale and duration to align with their aspirations, as well as a shortage of suitable capacity-building supports are key main barriers.”
