Southside Partnership – PEEP+ DLR
Southside Partnership works with communities, individuals, and agencies to tackle social exclusion. The PEEP+DLR initiative is our work with parents and their babies and toddlers in Shanganagh, Loughlinstown, Ballyogan, Mounttown, Balally and Hillview, where we work with family support partners to provide friendly, weekly parent and baby/toddler groups. We use a lovely programme called PEEP, Parents Early Education Learning Together Programme, which helps us all understand about baby and toddler development, and what it is like to become a new parent. Your baby/toddler learns to play with you, their most important person, while also learning how to play alongside other very young children. We have free play, snack time, circle time, song and storytime, and you get to talk to other parents and the staff. Parents tell us they begin to feel more confident as a parent; they see what their baby/toddler does is normal development; and when they needed some extra help with difficult circumstances, they felt understood, and supported until additional help could be found.
PEEP+DLR runs 33 weeks a year, during term time, and if you want to, you can stay for the first 2 years of your baby/toddlers life.
The PEEP+ groups have been designed with you in mind! Anyone who feels a bit isolated, or excluded from other things, or wants to attend a smaller group (max 8 parents, 8 babies/toddlers), we have a lot of experience including and welcoming parents and babies and toddlers like you!
Dads are also very welcome to attend the groups and they tell us the routine really helps them feel a sense of belonging; our groups are not mother and toddler groups, they are not women’s groups, they are parent and baby groups! We also welcome families who may be separated but co-parenting – families in these circumstances find the groups supportive.
How to connect with this service →When does our service run: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
Phone: 01 7060100
Email: [email protected]
Address: Old Post Office, 7, Rockhill, Main St, Blackrock, Co. Dublin
Services
we offer:
Baby & Toddler Group
Parenting Information & Advice
Parenting Training
Services we can put you in touch with: We can signpost you to services such as Counselling and Therapy, Early Learning & Care, Family Support, Healthy Eating Advice, Help with School/Education, Play Therapy, Siblings Supports, and others
Children we work with: 0-2
Do you have Group or One-to-One supports Group; however the family supports teams are involved because families often find they need some additional 1:1 supports, which they begin to use when a good relationship has begun to develop in the groups.
Is your space accessible?: yes