The Longford-Westmeath Parenting Partnership will welcome Professor Matt Sanders, the founder of the Triple P Positive Parenting Programme from June 8-10 including a seminar in Athlone on Thursday June 9. The programme is currently being piloted in Longford Westmeath having started up in September 2010.
The Triple P (Positive Parenting Programme ) is a set of evidence-based parenting programmes which reduce child behavioural and emotional problems or reduces the possibility of them happening, by giving parents proven tools and skills to build stronger families. Parents also learn tips which help to promote their child’s confidence and independence. There is something for all parents.
The programme has been available to parents with children seven years and under for the last nine months. In that short time approximately 1,000 parents have gone through the various levels of the programmes available.
The visit is yet another opportunity for parents in both Westmeath and Longford to attend a free seminar, to be held on Thursday June 9 in the Radisson Hotel, Athlone from 8pm-9.30pm where Professor Sanders will discuss ‘Parenting in difficult times’.
It is expected that the seminar will afford parents the skills to plan to reduce their stress levels by preventing common problems before they happen, managing them when they happen, and spotting the parenting traps.
The Longford-Westmeath Parenting Partnership is made up of the HSE, Westmeath County Childcare Committee, Longford County Childcare Committee, Co Longford Vocational Education Committee, Westmeath Community Development, Longford Community Resources Ltd, Athlone Community Services Council, Athlone Education Centre, and Carrick-on-Shannon Education Centre.
For more information about Triple P courses, tips and pod casts for common parenting concerns go to www.triplep-staypositive.net or phone the Longford-Westmeath Parenting Partnership on (090 ) 6434070.
Courses are free to parents living in Longford/Westmeath with children seven years of age or younger.
