Family Links – Nurturing Programme for Parents

The ‘Family Links Nurturing Programme for Parents’ is a structured, interactive parenting programme.

This programme is run by Louise Ritchie – (Central Peripatetic Support Services). The programme promotes emotional health and mental wellbeing, relationship skills and positive support strategies for parents, carers, and their children. Each parent/carer is given a book called The Parenting Puzzle, which has ten sessions that match the 10-week programme.

The aims of the nurturing programme are as follows:

To help parents understand and manage feelings and behaviour while becoming more positive and nurturing in their relationships with children and each other.
To give children and parents an emotionally healthy springboard for their lives and learning.
To promote emotional literacy and emotional health.
To develop communication and relationship skills.
To enhance self-esteem, self-awareness and empathy.
To provide effective strategies to encourage co-operative, responsible behaviour and manage challenging behaviour in children.