{"id":27,"date":"2012-04-12T09:08:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T09:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/pflnew\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:24:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T09:24:22","slug":"background-info","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/?page_id=27","title":{"rendered":"Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/preparingforlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kids3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-372\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"kids3\" src=\"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kids3-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kids3-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kids3.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0<em>Preparing for Life<\/em>\u00a0programme is a community initiative being conducted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northsidepartnership.ie\/\">Northside Partnership<\/a> and funded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcya.gov.ie\/\">Department of Children and Youth Affairs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlanticphilanthropies.org\/\">Atlantic Philanthropies<\/a>. <em>PFL<\/em> is being evaluated by a team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucd.ie\/geary\/\">UCD Geary Institute<\/a>, led by <a title=\"PFL Research Team\" href=\"\/preparingforlife\/?page_id=309\">Dr. Orla Doyle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>PFL<\/em>\u00a0was two years in development and went into the field in late January, 2008. The aim of the\u00a0<em>PFL\u00a0<\/em>intervention is to improve levels of school readiness in several designated disadvantaged areas of North Dublin, Ireland, beginning during pregnancy and lasting until the children start school. A survey measuring levels of school readiness among the junior infant cohort of 2004 found that almost 50% of the children in the community were deemed \u2018not ready for school&#8217; (Kiernan et al., 2008). The purpose of the programme is therefore to help parents develop skills to help their children in five domains of school readiness:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cognitive development<\/li>\n<li>physical health and motor skills<\/li>\n<li>social, emotional &amp; behavioural development<\/li>\n<li>approaches to learning<\/li>\n<li>language development and literacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information on the <em>Preparing for Life<\/em> Programme, please click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preparingforlife.ie\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For further information on the evaluation of PFL, please click <a title=\"Evaluation of the Preparing for Life Programme\" href=\"\/preparingforlife\/?page_id=32\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Programme Groups\" href=\"\/preparingforlife\/?page_id=114\">Programme Groups<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Theoretical Framework of the PFL Programme\" href=\"\/preparingforlife\/?page_id=129\">Theoretical Framework of the PFL Programme<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Preparing for Life\u00a0programme is a community initiative being conducted by the Northside Partnership and funded by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and Atlantic Philanthropies. PFL is being evaluated by a team at UCD Geary Institute, led by Dr. Orla Doyle. PFL\u00a0was two years in development and went into the field in late January, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}