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Non-violent Resistance Programme for Parents

Poster showing parents and child arguing with information about the NVR programme

Are you struggling to cope with your child's aggressive behaviour?

Our free six-week Non-violent Resistance (NVR) programme for parents and carers starts on 5th March and can help you to:

  • identify what the problem is
  • create a calmer home environment for you and your child
  • learn skills to de-escalate conflict between you and your child
  • break the silence and stigma that surrounds child to parent aggression and violence

The programme will run for six weeks in our SPECS Family Centre on Tuesday mornings from 10am-12pm, starting on 5th March 2024.

To qualify to attend, you have to be living in the Bray and north Wicklow area and belong to one or more of these groups:

  • Living in a disadvantaged community
  • Impacted by educational disadvantage
  • Living in a jobless household or a household where the primary income source is low-paid and/or precarious
  • Long-term unemployed
  • With a criminal history
  • A refugee
  • An International Protection Applicant
  • Person with a disability
  • Head of one-parent families
  • Traveller
  • Roma

To find our more and book your place, call Jennifer Jones on 083 393 6923 or email jenniferjones@brayareapartnership.ie.

This programme is funded under our Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP), which is co-funded by the Irish Government, through the Department of Rural and Community Development, and the European Social Fund Plus under the Employment, Inclusion, Skills and Training (EIST) Programme 2021-2027.​