What Rainbows offers
- Helps a child to engage with their own individual grief journey to identify, name, understand, express and share their feelings
- Provides a safe setting to tell and retell feelings and thoughts with trained listeners
- Supports Participants to come to terms with loss and to integrate and adapt to loss in their lives
- Allows children to have a shared experience and identification with others feelings not the only one
- Acknowledges grief and loss it’s ok to be sad
- Supports the rebuilding of self-esteem, trust, confidence and resilience
- Promotes emotional growth and a pathway to positive mental health
- Provides a model of coping and support for the future life of a child
- Contributes to family functioning at a time of stress and difficult
Rainbows -Children can experience a lot of changes when there is a separation or bereavement in a family. This course provides support to help them deal with feelings and gradually rebuild their lives. New Course date TBC
Information about Rainbows and their services can be found at this link: http://www.rainbowsireland.ie/
Information for parents can be found at this link: https://www.rainbowsireland.ie/parents/
If you are interested in availing of Rainbows services at Vita House please download and complete expression of interest form and email to info@vitahouse.org.