Keep up to date with all the news happening in school

• Time to shine

  Tue 11 May 2021

  Zoom invite

  

• Text-a-Nurse

  Wed 24 Mar 2021

  Text-a-Nurse service has been launched to provide young people with a secure and confidential text messaging service to a school nurse for advice and support.

   

  The service is aimed at 11 to 19 year olds and will be delivered by the School Nursing Teams.  It is one of a range of resources to support the implementation of the Framework for Children and Young People’s Emotional Health and Wellbeing in Education.

  This new scheme will allow young people to seek advice about sensitive health issues without a face to face appointment. School nurses will provide help on a range of issues including, emotional health and wellbeing, alcohol and drugs, sexual health, bullying and general health issues.

   

  We hope through this non-judgemental, confidential text service young people will be empowered to ask those questions that they otherwise wouldn’t have the confidence to ask.

   

  A qualified school nurse will respond to the young people’s messages using the secure ChatHealth web platform. ChatHealth is an award winning service in the UK and is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland and will transform the way young people communicate with health professionals.

• Sure Start

  Wed 24 Mar 2021

  Register here for your free tickets to Barnardos’ Webinar taking place on Tuesday, 30^th March at 10am-12pm entitled, ‘Plugged in, Switched Off’ for parents and professionals.  

   

  Overview

   

  These past few months have presented many challenges, however it is clear that our collective relationship with technology has increased.

   
   

  Agenda

  • 10.00-10.05: Welcome and introduction from MC, Anton Savage
  • 10.05-10.20: Insights from Barnardos Online Safety Programme
  • 10.20-10.40: Insights from expert - Joanna Fortune (Clinical psychotherapist and parenting expert)
  • 10.40-10.50: Insights from Industry - Tik Tok and Google
  • 10.50-11.00: Insights from Young people - Webwise Youth Advisory Panel (YAP)
  • 11.00-11.05: Comfort break
  • 11.05-11.30: Break out sessions (choose 1 from 3 options)
  • Workshop 1: Being a good role model: how to empower parents (chaired by Barnardos Project Leader)
  • Workshop 2: Opportunities and challenges re Screentime and Digital Learning - insights from a teaching perspective (chaired by Children & Young People Services Committee (CYPSC) Education Chair)
  • Workshop 3: Defining Digital Wellbeing - how can we promote it for children? (chaired by Cybersafekids)
  • 11.35-11.55: Panel discussion (Joanna Fortune - key note speaker, Almudena Lara - Google, 2 young people from YAP, Clíodhna Purdue - Barnardos)
  • 11.55-12.00: Wrap up and close

• International Womens Day

  Tue 02 Mar 2021
  

• Parenting Anxious Children and Teenagers

  Mon 01 Mar 2021

  Anxiety has become part and parcel of modern life. Its impact on family and on young people’s lives in particular can be debilitating. Parents typically feel at a loss to know what to do. Join Bronagh Starrs, internationally renowned psychotherapist, trauma specialist, academic and author for this webinar which will focus on supporting parents of to understand childhood and adolescent anxiety. A trove of helpful strategies will be presented.

   

  Date: Tuesday 02 March 2021

  Time: 7.00pm

   

  About the Presenter

  Bronagh Starrs is Founder & Director of Blackfort Adolescent Gestalt Institute and Programme Director for the MSc Adolescent Psychotherapy in Dublin Counselling & Therapy Centre in partnership with University of Northampton. She maintains a private practice in Omagh, Northern Ireland, as a
  psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, writer and trainer, specialising in working with adolescents. Bronagh is an adolescent development specialist and has considerable experience teaching and presenting throughout Ireland and
  internationally on the developmental implication of trauma on the adolescent journey. Her book Adolescent Psychotherapy - A Radical Relational Approach (Routledge, London) has received international acclaim.

   

  To register interest please contact Shauna Devine on shauna.devine@barnardos.org.uk or
  07809100511 leaving your phone number and email address.

   

  Hosted by: General Practice Multi-Disciplinary Team, WHSCT & Barnardo’s NI, Strabane Family Support Hub

• Ascert

  Tue 23 Feb 2021
  Support sessions

  

• Half Fare Smart Pass

  Thu 11 Feb 2021

  How to apply

  To get a  SmartPass you must also be aged between 16 and 59, and have been permanently resident in Northern Ireland for a minimum of three months.

  You can get an application form:

  • in person from any manned Translink bus or rail station
  • by phoning 028 9066 6630 (deaf and hard-of-hearing applicants can use the textphone number 18001 9066 6630)
  • by emailing: smartpass@translink.co.uk to ask for a form to be posted to you

  More information https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/half-fare-smartpass-disability-living-allowance

• Podcasts from Royal National Institute of Blind People

  Thu 11 Feb 2021
  https://www.rossmar.co.uk/podcasts/

• Transition video

  Mon 08 Feb 2021
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAU9jan3Dos

• Parent Line NI

  Fri 05 Feb 2021