Results List
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Engaging Early to Change Children’s Lives
Preparing For Life helps families raise happy and healthy children who are ready for school, like five year old Lucy. Photo: Audra Melton "The neighbourhood around here, it's very hard to raise your children in. This place is overrun with drugs and gangs," explained a…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Spec. Ed. Is Funding Early Help
Source: Education Week
by Christina A. Samuels Bit by bit, the U.S. Department of Education is trying to pull down the walls that have traditionally separated general and special education. One facet of the plan is the department's support of response to intervention, or RTI, an educational technique…
Resource type: News
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Doodle Den Is Tackling Inequality After School in Limerick
Source: The Irish Times
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Conor Neill (6) with his class in the Doodle Den in St Michael’s Infants School in Limerick. Photograph: Brian Gavin/Press 22[/caption] By Carl O'Brien A few weeks ago Siobhán Neill took her six-year-old son, Conor, to McDonald’s as a treat. She…
Resource type: News
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Executive Summary of Findings from the Media Initiative for Children
Source: Early Years
Young children who participated in a media programme to increase their awareness of diversity showed clear changes in their socio-emotional development, cultural awareness and inclusive behaviour, according to an evaluation by the Centre for Effective Education at Queen’s University Belfast. The randomised controlled trial examined…
Resource type: Evaluation
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Atlantic Quietly Closes Its Doors in Ireland After 30 Years of Philanthropy
Source: The Irish Times
Chuck Feeney's 'historic act of extraordinary generosity' financed transformational change.
Resource type: News
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Diane E. Meier, MD: From Early Lessons in Critical Thinking to 'Palliative Care Everywhere'
Source: The Asco Post
By Ronald Piana Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. —Helen Keller, Optimism, 1903 [caption id="attachment_44580" align="alignleft" width="292"] Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP is director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care.[/caption] Shortly past 8:00 AM…
Resource type: News
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Research led by NUI Maynooth proves the Power of Positive Parenting
Source: Archways / Incredible Years programme
Archways and the Incredible Years programme are Atlantic Children & Youth Programme grantees via the Clondalkin Partnership. Archways, is today (Monday, 21st Sept) launching the first set of findings from the Incredible Years BASIC parent training programme for children aged 3-6yrs. The Incredible Years (IY)…
Resource type: News
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TILDA Celebrates Ten Years of Research Into the Challenges of Ageing in Ireland
Source: The University Times
The study, which has 8,500 participants from across the country, has been internationally recognised for its wide focus of the issues facing older people. By Simon Foy, Senior Editor [caption id="attachment_78329" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Photo: Sinéad Baker for The University Times[/caption] The Irish Longitudinal Study on…
Resource type: News
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Make education an early priority in administration
Source: Houston Chronicle
Original Source By MIKE FEINBERG At the end of his stirring acceptance speech in Chicago on November 4, President-elect Barack Obama said that this is the time "to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids" and "to reclaim…
Resource type: News
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Ten Years of Learning
Source: Centre for Effective Services
For more than a decade, the Atlantic Philanthropies, sometimes in conjunction with Government and other organisations, has invested over €127 million/£105 million in 30 partner agencies and community groups running 52 prevention and early intervention services and programmes across the island of Ireland. This document…
Resource type: Research Report
