Ms Anita Harris:

The Parents Under Pressure programme was taken into Coolmine in 2014. It is an Australian mode. When we rolled that out across Coolmine programmes, there was such a demand, with people asking if they needed to go to Coolmine or be in addiction to get this model, or does it applies to people in situations of domestic violence, or in a mental health context or to parents under pressure. The answer is yes. It was specifically designed for parents with substance misuse but also for kinship carers, grandparents who are now raising the children. In Australia, this was developed when there was a whole missing generation of parents in certain areas and it was the grandparents who were raising many of the children. At the moment there are over 400 trained PUP practitioners across Ireland, over the last two years.