Group support in action....here in Donegal/Derry ... Building hope .....Teen Bereavement #connection
#belonging
#sharedfeelings .Foyle Hospice Inishowen Dev P'ship

So privileged to be back for Part 2 Teen Bereavement group in Donegal/ Derry today..... #connection
#belonging #sharing

Amazing morning launching our Easy Read booklet on End of Life Care which is co-developed with Project Search. Our booklet uses simple language +pictures to support a person with an intellectual disability to have a conversation about end-of-life care.
#inclusion
#teamwork

The Separation Network is hosting a series out workshops for frontline practitioners who work with separated families. This workshop, facilitated by Eavan Ward Women's Aid Ireland is focused on the intersection of domestic violence and separation. Learn more here: onefamily.ie/separation-net…

When our most traumatised young people suffering from toxic stress,you are not going to solve the behaviour by punishing them into a better way of being. This only exacerbates the trauma,dosing up the stress response & adding more pain to people who have already suffered.🧠🌱

Every behaviour is a form of communication. We need to look beneath it and seek to understand what is driving it. This behaviour does not occur in a vacuum. 🧠🌱

Des from @KDYS .....highlighting the importance of support and intervention at significant difficult times in an adolescence life. Key often #onegoodadult

Access to timely support a key issue in local communities Community Therapy Ireland Tusla - Child and Family Agency FRC National Forum

Delighted to be attending the Community Therapy launch this morning.

This should be displayed at the front door entrance of every school.🧠🌱

Brains develop until adulthood,so school s need to be places of nurturing,not just a transmission of facts & abilities but nurturing, emotional nurturing.The most important input that the school environment should have on the developing brain is the quality of relationships.🧠🌱

Fully funded ABLE training places available. Develop your understanding of why holding space, listening & building supportive relationships matter. For frontline practitioners in healthcare, social care, education & community roles #Interpersonalskills #CPD #RelationshipsMatter

'Trauma is not remembered as something that happened in the past, but repeated, relived, and reenacted in the present.' Here's how that can affect healing. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/relati…

The part of the brain we need to get for a young person to access learning is the cortex.Learning can only take place if the cortex is accessible.This can only happen when brain and body feels truly safe.If the nervous system is dysregulated the cortex is not accessible. 🧠🌱

When I go,
don’t learn to live without me,
just learn to live with my love,
in a different way.

And if you need to see me,
close your eyes,
or look in your shadow,
when the sun shines,

I’m there.

Sit with me in the quiet and you will know,
that I did not leave.

There is no

NPEC INFANT Centre Ireland South Women & Infants Directorate UCC Medicine & Health UCC Research Irish Hospice Foundation Barnardos Ireland Feileacain Children's Grief Centre FirstLight The Irish Childhood Bereavement Network Rainbows Ireland A Little Lifetime Anam Cara

When you learn to live with loss, it doesn’t mean that there’s no more pain.

It means that you’ve come to understand that you can *survive* the pain.

#Grief

In a bereavement group today #Saytheirname - We can never ever underestimate how hard it is for children whose parent has died to say their name or talk about them - #rawpain #griefandlossbeyondwords

Culture of Excellence.

The NSRF are recruiting parents & guardians of children who were bereaved by suicide at age 8-14 yrs

▶️Explore the needs of young people,identify barriers & facilitators to accessing appropriate supports

Interested in participating?
🖊️tinyurl.com/bddpfddn

#ConnectingforLife