Empowering the Community to Teach the Child

An integrated approach to tackling educational disadvantage

Eleanor McClorey 13th July 2012

youngballymun strategy

Key features

Life cycle response

Innovation

Capacity building

Sustainability

Replicability

Value for money

Deliver a working model for Infant Mental Health policy development

and practice implementation

Build a quality early care and education sector with a highly trained workforce to

promote holistic health and development of 0-6s, with proactive parental engagement, integration with health and family support

services and strong school linkages

Embed an integrated pro-social behaviour, language and literacy

strategy in home, school and community service settings

Integrate an adolescent health and mental health practice framework into the area-wide

youth services strategy underpinned by actively engaged primary care and child and

adolescent mental health services

Contribute collaboratively a national level prevention and early intervention policy,

research and practice and promote national level systems change to sustain prevention

and early intervention beyond 2016

youngballymun is jointly funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs

Thank You Questions and Discussion