Listen back to One Family Director Karen Kiernan on The Last Word, Thursday 27 January, debating Prof Ed Walsh on lone parents, DNA testing, poverty and a whole lot more http://audiostore.todayfm.com/player/thursday.html Go to Part 2 and the debate starts at about 41 mins.

If you parent alone and need free legal advice, our next FLAC evening is Tuesday 8 March, from 5.30 to 7.30pm, 2 Lower Pembroke St, Dublin 2. Call 01 6629212 or see  here for more information.

An intensive career and personal development initiative for lone parents is being launched in Galway today, to prevent those most in need from falling into long-term unemployment. ‘New Futures’ is a unique programme developed by One Family, funded through FAS and delivered in partnership with the Galway City Partnership. It is targeted at lone parents [...]

If you are sharing parenting you might be interested in our new course ‘Communicating with the Other Parent to make Shared Parenting Successful’. It starts in March 2011 and will be held at One Family, 2 Lwr Pembroke St, Dublin 2. Call 01 6629212 to register.

TV3′s Midweek is looking for people who parent alone, and who find themselves struggling since the budget cuts, to take part on their Weds 26 Jan show. Please call 087 6495710 if you are interested.

If you are a dad parenting alone or sharing parenting then this is your chance to explore parenting issues with other dads in a similar situation. Tuesday 5 April & 31 May 3-5.30pm: Shared Parenting and making it work for parents and children. The courses are €10 each. More

Good news: the next dates for our popular ‘Positive Parenting’ training courses are 7-9 February in Dublin and 7-9 March in Cork. The course is for people working with one-parent families and looks at how to build strong relationships with children and manage difficult behavior, leaving participants with the tools to design and deliver life-changing [...]

Parenting alone can be a costly business and leave little time for pampering yourself, but, RTE’s fashion series Off The Rails are looking for candidates. You get the makeover,  €500 worth of clothes and travel expenses – so it’s a great idea if you’re in a ‘New Year, New Me’ kind of mood.  Email offtherails@rte.ie [...]