Resources

This is a Disability Directory for Laois and Offaly to support parents, families, young people and those who work in services to access a range of information across 13 sections of topics relevant to understanding more about supports for disabilities.

Useful leaflets to explain Meitheal to Parents and Young People

This is the full 3 year plan that the CYPSC works to with details on actions and key priority areas to support gaps identified through consultations.

Here is a link to our Autumn 2021 Podcast Series called Life Matters. All the content was generated locally with our local Young people interviewing Dr. Peter Vermeulen, Dr. Penny Rogers, Dr. Gillian Harris and a range of other speakers .

With our FRC partners in Offaly we were one of 12 Projects chosen by the Wheel for their Training Links Fund. This allowed us to continue our trauma informed communities journey from phase 1 and build on the local knowledge and trauma informed practice across services. The funding from the Wheel was crucial to providing the high quality standard of training and events we had embarked on in Phase 1 of the project with Healthy Ireland funding.

Free eight module adult education course "Childhood trauma, Consequences and Essential Responses" what a lovely gesture this lady has made sharing her great resources for free.

The Parent Hub Initiative is a project identified by the Prevention Partnership and Family Support (PPFS) Subgroup of the Laois and Offaly CYPSC. The Parent Hub will represent a collaborative group of Statutory and Community Services who have a common focus of parenting support. The need for coordination of information, data and admission/referral details on all things parenting in Laois and Offaly has been identified by the partners involved in the CYPSC subgroups, PPFS Child and Family Support Network and the families the services work with.

Research carried out as part of the DECDIY What Works Sharing Knowledge Fund.

Key stats from 7 services involved in the Healthy relationships project 2023