Book Tickets: Eventbrite DESCRIPTION St Patrick’s Mental Health Services and Pieta House are holding their third Self-Harm Awareness Conference on 1st March 2018(Self-Injury Awareness Day) at the AVIVA stadium. This year’s conference is aimed at healthcare professionals, social care and education providers, as well as parents, carers, policy makers and influencers. The theme of the conference is ‘understanding self-harm’. A recent study by Long (2018) examined the negative im

Updated 2pm by TheJournal.ie THE DEPARTMENT OF Education has launched an ‘internet safety resource’ for teenagers in partnership with the gardaí. ‘Be in Ctrl’ contains three lesson plans, an information pack for school leaders, and will be supported by a Garda talk for schools. The initiative is part of a wider set of supports, which also require schools ‘to develop policies on smartphone us in consultation with the wider school community, including parents’. The resource lau

Donegal Now, 08:50 Tuesday 6th of February 2018 Today is Safer Internet Day, which is designed to make people more aware of internet safety and particularly of the potential dangers lurking online for children. This year’s theme is “create, connect and share respect: a better internet starts with you”. It organised by the Insafe Network and celebrated in approximately 130 countries worldwide and is promoted in Ireland by PDST Technology in Education. Switcher.ie has created a