Young Ballymun

Youngballymun’s Oral Language Forum: “Connecting Words and Worlds”

The Oral Language Forum has been facilitated by Youngballymun since 2010.  Youngballymun initiated this inter-agency and multi-disciplinary forum to collaborate on oral language development in prevention and early intervention areas. Since then there has been approximately two Oral Language Forum meetings per year.  The Oral Language Forum supports a community of professionals …

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Wilderness Explorers Planting Party

During the lockdown we had an opportunity to work with Global Action Plan Ireland (GAP) funded through ESB Energy for Generations fund to offer our Wilderness Explorer Planting Party Workshops to 34 families reaching 71 children. We held a number of workshops on zoom with …

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Youngballymun working remotely

Hi there, the language and literacy team of Youngballymun are, like most people in Ireland, currently working from home. Our work specifically includes working with parents to support them to develop their children’s literacy skills using the evidence based Balanced Literacy Framework and the Family …

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ADHD Explained

Hi everyone,  Hope you’re well and had a good bank holiday weekend.  At this time many parents and children are struggling with trying to manage the current situation, where there are extra challenges present such as ADHD, the struggle can be even tougher.   With that …

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Drop Everything And Read!!  

Hi Everyone, This Friday we’re joining St. Paul’s JCSP Library in the Drop Everything And Read challenge. We would love you to join us all in taking part in the national reading challenge. This Friday 24th of April at 12pm, we are going to join the challenge …

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Farewell to Mary Fanning

A fond farewell to our colleague and friend, Mary Fanning who worked with Youngballymun since 2009. Mary retired from her role as Infant Mental Health Co-ordinator on April 9th. On behalf of the team, the Board of Management, and all the families and practitioners that …

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