Empowering the Community to Teach the Child - An Integrated Approach to Tackling Educational Disadvantage Presentation by Eleanor McClorey

1. Empowering the Community
to Teach the Child
An integrated approach to tackling
educational disadvantage
Eleanor McClorey
13th July 2012

2. youngballymun strategy
Key features
 Life cycle response
 Innovation
 Capacity building
 Sustainability
 Replicability
 Value for money

3. Deliver a working model for
Infant Mental Health policy development
and practice implementation

4. 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

5. Embed an integrated pro-social
behaviour, language and literacy
strategy in home, school and
community service settings

6. 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

7. 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

8. Thank You
Questions and Discussion
youngballymun is jointly funded by
the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs