National Breastfeeding Week 2025
National "Breastfeeding Awareness Week" - Video and Supports
The Health and Diversity Sub Group of Wexford CYPSC have prepared a communication piece that features some of the events that are happening to promote National Breastfeeding Week 2022. Click here to view.
The theme for National Breastfeeding Week 2022 was "Feeding the Future, Supporting Breastfeeding through a Pandemic and Beyond". To celebrate this, a video to support and promote breastfeeding was developed by Wexford CYPSC in association with teh HSE and Wexford Public Library Service. Click here to view. Watch Siobhán Sinnott Child Health Development Officer, HSE talk to Jenny Trout and baby Oisín. They are joined by Stephanie Murray (Clinical Midwife Specialist in Lactation, Wexford General Hospital), Nuria Tasies (Domino Midwife Lead WGH) and Alexandra Fenton (Breastfeeding Counsellor with Cuidiú).
Please see mychild.ie for information, support on breastfeeding and details of Breastfeeding Support Group meetings. You can check out these groups on social media. In addition to these supports, HSE's online Breastfeeding service "Ask our Expert" is available through HSE.ie.
Supporting Bereaved Children and Young People
#HereForYouSouthEast Regional Bereavement Support Campaign 2021
The HSE Regional Suicide Resource Office, in collaboration with the Children & Young People's Services Committees and the Healthy County Committees in the South East Community Healthcare region are hosting a Bereavement Support Campaign. Commencing on September 6th 2021 and over the course of eight weeks, eight organisations that provide services and supports to people who are experiencing grief and loss will be profiled. Each week, an information sheet, promotional video and other helpful resources will be released. There will also be materials that you can use on your social media channels. See below for social media assets and videos. Please share on social media / circulate with your contacts as appropriate.
Partner Pack : Click here to access the partner pack that gives you an overview of the campaign and the organisations that will be profiled.
Week 1 : Irish Hospice Foundation
To access the information sheet on the IHF, click here.
To access Week 1 Social Media Assets, click here.
To access Week 1 video, click here
Week 2 : Anam Cara
To access the information sheet on Anam Cara, click here
To access Week 2 Social Media Assets, click here
Week 3 : Irish Childhood Bereavement Network (ICBN)
To access the information sheet on the ICBN, click here
To access Week 3 Social Media Assets, click here
To access Week 3 Video and Information, click here
Week 4 : Rainbows
To access the information sheet on Rainbows, click here
To access Week 4 Social Media Assets, click here
To access Week 4 Rainbows Video, click here
To access Week 4 Rainbows Info Sheet, click here
Week 5 : Barnardos
To access the information sheet on teenage grief, click here
To access Week 5 Social Media Assets, click here
To access Week 5 Video, click here
To access Week 5 Assets, click here
To access Facebook asset, click here
To access Twitter asset, click here
Week 6 : HSE Bereavement Counselling Service
To access Week 6 Information Sheet, click here.
To access Week 6 Resource Links, click here.
To access Week 6 Traumatic Bereavement Video, click here
To access Week 6, Suicide Bereavement Survey, click here
Week 7 : Pieta
To access Week 7 Information Sheet, click here
To access Week 7 Social Media Assets, click here
To access Week 7 Video, click here
To access Week 7 Services Information Sheet and Suicide Bereavement Survey, click here.
To access information on Bereavement Supports and Services, click here
Week 8 : Cancer Support Services in the South East
Cancer Bereavement #HereForYouSouthEast
Bereavement Support Services #HereForYouSouthEast
Bereavement Support
The Irish Hospice Foundation have launched a free bereavement resource pack. Click here to access the pack.
The National Suicide Bereavement Support Guide "You Are Not Alone" has been launched. You can access the guide here.
The following resources may also be useful: