News & Events

Anam Cara Kerry Parent Evening

Anam Cara are facilitating an online parent evening ‘Anam Cara Kerry Parent Evening’ for Kerry and West Cork parents on Tuesday the 24th of November at 7:00p.m. This meeting will be hosted by Alve Bevan.  If you know any bereaved parents who may like to take part please let them […]

Talking about Sex and Sexual Behaviour among Young People in Ireland

Launch of new research from joint ESRI/HSE Health and Wellbeing research programme on how young people receive information on relationships and sex; and new HSE educational resources encouraging parent-child conversations about relationships, sexuality and growing up. The new research report ‘Talking about Sex and Sexual Behavior among Young People in […]

Interactive Community Mapping

A Community Response Advisory Group has been established in Kerry to coordinate the community response on COVID-19 and to ensure that vulnerable members of the community can avail of a trusted and coordinated support service during the current public health emergency. The Kerry Public Participation Network in collaboration with the […]

Mediation Training

Kerry Prevention, Partnership and Family Support (PPFS) are delighted to be able to offer Mediation Training to Professionals across Kerry. Funding for this training was secured via QCBI by Kerry CYPSC. The 2-day training is being delivered via Zoom by Gerry O’Sullivan (Mediation Training and Research Services) on the 9th […]

KEEP WELL campaign & supports available for all ages!

The #KeepWell campaign is aimed at showing people of all ages how we can mind our physical & mental wellbeing going forward by adding healthy and helpful habits to our daily and weekly routine. The 5 key messages in the #KeepWell campaign are: 1.Keeping active 2.Staying connected 3.Switching off & […]

Kerry CYPSC Parents Own Plan App

Kerry CYPSC are to delighted to introduce you to our ‘Parents Own Plan’ (POP) App which is available for download on both Android and iPhone for FREE!! The App allows you to save all those appointments and plans that you have for your children (and yourself). It is equipped with […]

National Breastfeeding Week 1st-7th of October

This week, October 1st – October 7th is National Breastfeeding week. The HSE acknowledges that the past few months have been very challenging for families with many face-to-face breastfeeding supports were cancelled when the pandemic began. The National Breastfeeding Coordinator Laura McHugh and National Assistant Breastfeeding Coordinator Meena Purushothaman would […]