Minister Launches New Resource to Support Children Impacted by a Parent’s Problem Drug or Alcohol Use:
On October 10th Minister for Children & Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald, joined Barnardos and the Family Support Agency to launch Parenting Positively – Coping with a Parent’s Problem Drug or Alcohol Use, a new resource for children, teenagers and their parents to support them in understanding and dealing with difficulties that can result from a parent’s problem drug or alcohol use.
The same day also saw the launch of Parenting Positively – Coping with Bullying. These booklets help children and parents to understand what bullying is and the effect it can have on children. They highlight the different types of bullying, such as cyber bullying and sexual bullying and provide help to parents to identify signs that their children might be being bullied.
The Parenting Positively series of booklets are available free to download from www.barnardos.ie, the dedicated teenagers website www.barnardos.ie/teenhelp, through Barnardos project centres and library and www.fsa.ie. Other topics available in the series include Death, Separation and Domestic Abuse as well as general Parenting Skills.