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Our Consortium partner organisation, One Family, have been running 'Positive Parenting' programme this term.

This term, Grangegorman ABC funded 21 assessments for children with additional needs in our early years services and primary schools. This funding will enable our Consortium organisations to support these children and their families with timely interventions and targeted activities. Thank you to all of the organisations who supported children through this process.

We are currently preparing our budget for 2022. See more information below and let us know if you have ideas or suggestions for new programmes.

Our Consortium met on Thursday, 30th September. The agenda covered news and updates from our programmes, a discussion around our priorities for the programme as we move forward, an update from the Consortium Model Sub-Group and a look ahead to Budget 2022. Small groups met to discuss the overall objectives of our programme, as part… Continue reading Consortium Meeting

Grangegorman ABC is running Lamh Module 1 training for Consortium member organisations in October/November 2021. Course Overview:  Module One Lámh Course is for those working with children and adults who use Lámh to enhance their communication. It is suitable for teachers, SNAs, social care workers, PAs and preschool staff and others, who work in mainstream… Continue reading Lamh Training

The ABC Programme has funded several multi-sensory spaces across the Consortium in recent years. To maximise the use and benefit of these spaces, training from 'Adam and Friends' is being offered to Consortium member organisations as follows: Each module is 3/3.5 hours. The modules available are as follows: 1. Sensory Room Training module 2. Autism… Continue reading Supporting children with autism and making the most of multi-sensory rooms

A reminder that our next Consortium meeting will take place on Thursday, 30th September from 10.00 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. on Microsoft Teams. A link will be sent to all Consortium member organisations this week. We look forward to seeing you there!

'Circle of Security' training will run in November 2021 for staff in Consortium organisations. Contact the ABC team if you are interested, email: abc@tudublin.ie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wpz8m0BFM8

We were pleased that our 'Stepping Up' programme to support children's transition from pre-school to primary school was able to provide starting school packs to all of the children in our early years services and primary schools starting school this September. The packs included a picture book with a story about starting school, colouring and… Continue reading Stepping Up Programme