Entries by Comms

Parenting | Your newly confident five-year-old

It is amazing to look back after your child’s first year in school and see how they have grown in confidence. However, along with this new found confidence comes a good dose of cheekiness. They have truly found their voice and will no longer conform. Now, when you ask them to tidy their room you […]

Training | Free Continuing Professional Development Opportunity – Last Remaining Places

One Family is offering a unique opportunity to avail of free professional development training which normally costs €400. One Family has almost 45 years experience working with one-parent families, people sharing parenting, and separating. From 22-24 June, we will facilitate our three-day Positive Parenting for Changing Families programme in Dublin and, as the HSE Dublin South […]

Training | Stronger Families EU Conference

Across Europe, more and more one-parent families are living in poverty. One Family is proud to collaborate as part of Stronger Families EU, a pioneering new Europe-wide initiative to help parents improve their skills and/or progress to employment. The project is a partnership between four long-established lone parent support organisations: APERIO (Czech Republic), Intermedia (Italy), One Family […]

Parenting | Teenagers and Summer Break

Summer can be a challenging time for one-parent families. When you have young teenagers at home and they’re off for three months, they need to be supported to be independent yet still monitored and cared for. For many parents, this has to be done while working a full-time job, providing care or other responsibilities which […]

Events | Social Group Summer Outings

Are you a lone parent who would like the opportunity to meet other people parenting alone or sharing parenting after separation? Would you like your children to interact with others of the same age? Then join us this summer on any of our Social Group Summer Outings for a fun and affordable day out for your family. […]