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Toy Show Grant to Extend Support for Stressed Parents

Parents Plus has been awarded €300,000 from the RTE Toy Show Appeal grants for 2022 by the Community Foundation for Ireland. This funding will “change the futures of over 2,000 children, parents and families in the next two years,” says Professor John Sharry of Parents Plus. Professor Sharry says parents today need more support than […]

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Parents Plus are are chosen by RTE Toy Show Appeal for the Transformative Grant

ParentsPlus are delighted to announce that we have been chosen by #rtetoyshowappeal and The Community Foundation for Ireland as one of the lucky recipients of the Transformative Grant. This partnership will support our national collaboration with key parent support organisations to scale up the provision of Parents Plus evidence-based programmes online and to families across […]

communications officer for parents plus
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Communications Officer to join our team.

Parents Plus is a social enterprise and charity who are driven by our mission to improve the well-being of children, young people, and parents, and to strengthen families, by empowering professionals to deliver our evidence-based parenting and mental health programmes in their services. Our research, development, training and supervision enables community, health, education and disability […]

Calling all services for families in Limerick and Clare

The JP McManus Benevolent Fund and Parents Plus Charity are offering sponsorship for free training places to professionals providing services to children, adolescents, and young adults with intellectual disability or special needs in Counties Limerick and Clare.  The JP McManus Benevolent Fund will sponsor the training and post training supervision of professionals in two of the flag ship […]

develop an INTERREG application
Parents Plus is seeking partners to develop an INTERREG application

‘The families and carers of young people and adolescents facing an intellectual disability have indicated that the services provided for their affected person are in need of improvement.  Improving healthcare systems to better address the needs of these individuals, their families and carers has been identified as a priority in many countries.   We are […]

Free training in the new Parents Plus Healthy Families Programme

The Parents Plus Healthy Families Programme was launched last year and already shows positive results for families completing the groups.  In partnership with UCD, we are now conducting a larger RCT study to determine its wider impact and are looking for services to help us. In return for taking part we can offer fully sponsored […]