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Parents' Week 2010

Knowing Families: how well do you know yours?

The 11th annual Parents' Week will take place from Monday 18th to Sunday 24th October 2010. This year the theme is "Knowing Families: how well do you know yours?" and we are confident we will build on the success of last year when around 180 events took place across Northern Ireland.

The Week will be

a celebration of the valuable work organisations large and small do with families in all their shapes and sizes
a time to examine how we can all be more effective
an opportunity for us to ensure that all the hard work is recognised and valued and ensure that the issues affecting families today are kept at the top of the political agenda.

Registration for Parents’ Week supporters is now open. Registering couldn’t be simpler – just go to www.familyandparenting.org/pw2010 and follow the instructions. Registering for Parents’ Week will not only ensure that you receive a supporter’s pack with a limited edition Knowing Families book, but will also give you access to event ideas and a media pack as well as other resources to help your Parents’ Week be the most successful yet.

We have also set up a new Yahoo Group where you can download forms to register your event, register for the PFNI conference, apply for membership or simply pose a question to us or other members of the Group. The Group home page can be found at: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/pfniparentsweek2010

Most importantly, remember to record your Parents’ Week event on the Events Sheet and return to Sandra at the Parenting Forum NI to enable us to help raise awareness of it on our website and help make Parents' Week a special time.

Last year, many great celebrations and special events took place during the week. Examples included ...

arranging a special outing for the family
parties in various playgroups

coffee mornings for parents
getting children in the area to make celebratory posters ...

The possibilities each year are endless, and need not cost a lot of time or money! To view a list of the events that happened throughout Parents' Week last year click here.

Parents' Week 2010 will be launched on Monday 18th October at our annual conference in the Park Avenue Hotel, Belfast. For more information on the Conference please click here.

* Please note that this link is to a Portable Document Format (PDF) file and you will need to have PDF Reader software on your computer to open it.