Barnardos puts the public spotlight on impact of homelessness on children and advocates for long-term solutions to homelessness. We add our voice to other organisations working directly with homeless families calling for more immediate action to end this crisis. Barnardos is also a member of the Irish Coalition to End Youth Homelessness.
The first action of this campaign is the petition to limit the amount of time a family spends in emergency accommodation.
Our services provide:
Barnardos also works locally with other agencies to support families made homeless.
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Barnardos advocates for widespread availability of family support services across the country.
Our services provide:
25 services across 11 counties working with families facing the following challenges:
This work is targeted towards children dealing with challenging experiences that are likely to impact on their development. Experiences such as parental addiction, domestic violence, physical and emotional abuse.
This one-to-one support is delivered on a weekly basis.
Tailored intervention working with parents and children in a therapeutic session together.
Barnardos approach to this work draws on evidence from attachment theory and child development.
This combined support is delivered on a weekly basis.
This is a daily programme for children aged 2-3 years.
The focus is on supporting children to meet their developmental milestones, develop language, social skills, sharing, taking turns and resolving conflicts.
This is a daily programme for children aged 3-5 years.
The focus is on social, emotional, language, phonological and literacy skills in preparation for transition to primary school.
This is a peer support group to increase parental understanding of their children’s needs, child development and behaviour.
This is tailored therapeutic work in response to assessed needs with either the child or the parent.
Barnardos works to highlight the adverse impact on children of the lack of access to services. We advocate for equal access by all children to all essential services. We regularly monitor and campaign on the length of health service waiting lists for children. Barnardos has long advocated for more funding for education services to ensure that cost is never a barrier to a child’s education
Our services provide:
We advocate and champion children’ rights at local level through engaging with stakeholders e.g. schools, Tusla, CYPSCs, Local authorities etc.
You can help us continue to support children lost to homelessness, poverty & neglect by making a donation today.
Barnardos works to highlight the adverse impact on children of the lack of access to services. We advocate for equal access by all children to all essential services. We regularly monitor and campaign on the length of health service waiting lists for children. Barnardos has long advocated for more funding for education services to ensure that cost is never a barrier to a child’s education
Our services provide:
We advocate and champion children’ rights at local level through engaging with stakeholders e.g. schools, Tusla, CYPSCs, Local authorities etc.
You can help us continue to support children lost to homelessness, poverty & neglect by making a donation today.