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Scoil Naomh Iósaf Baltinglass
Contact the Office: 0596481083

Wellbeing in Scoil Naomh Iósaf

Mindfulness and Mental Health Resources for Children and Parents

Barnardos
*New Barnardos Dedicated Helpline: Phone: 1800 910 123 between 10.00am and 2.00pm – Monday to Friday or by emailing parentsupport@barnardos.ie
Barnardos have a section on Resources for Parents entitled Heart, Body and Mind which can be accessed at this link.
https://www.barnardos.ie/how-you-can-help/fundraising/covid-19-crisis-appeal-for-children/heart-body-and-mind?mc_cid=dd9abaa1f3&mc_eid=1dd7612eba
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Niall Breslin
Niall Breslin (aka Bressie) is doing a lot of work to support both children and adults in the area of wellbeing and mental health and has a number of podcasts available. https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/where-is-my-mind/id1470956619
He is involved with Therapy Hub, which offers free access to therapist and counsellors online.
https://www.therapyhub.ie/
He also does meditation for children daily at 5pm on his Instagram page which is recorded and uploaded onto his Facebook page.


Rainbows Ireland
The Rainbows Ireland website has links to many useful resources in the area of bereavement, funerals during Covid 19, talking about Corona Virus, challenges to separated parents during Corona Virus etc.
 https://www.rainbowsireland.ie/


Weaving Wellbeing Programme
The Weaving Wellbeing Programme which is a resource we use in school can be accessed online.
There is a free activity journal entitled ‘At Home with Weaving Wellbeing’ on the website. Most of the topics in the FREE journal, such as positivity, gratitude, kindness, bravery, creativity and self-kindness, are drawn from the field of Positive Psychology, which is the science of well-being. There are also activities based on dealing with worries and coping with change. https://www.otb.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/At-Home-with-Weaving-Well-being-A-Mental-Health-Journal-for-Kids.pdf


Other Resources:
https://www.cosmickids.com/category/watch/
https://www.mindfulnessmatters.ie/
https://www.pdst.ie/primary/healthwellbeing/relaxationandself-regulationtools
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