Family Support
Support Families in Need.
Our family support service offers practical advice, guidance, and information to parents and caregivers in a welcoming, non-judgemental, and respectful environment.
We provide a wide range of supports tailored to meet the diverse needs of families, including:
Supports Offered Include:
- One-to-One Parenting Support:
Personalised guidance for parents seeking advice, coping strategies, or reassurance around parenting challenges. - Advocacy and Practical Help:
Supporting families to access entitlements, housing services, schools, healthcare, and other statutory or community-based supports. - Signposting and Referrals:
Linking families with relevant local agencies and specialist services to ensure holistic, wraparound support. - Support with Meitheal Process:
Assisting families who are part of a Tusla-led early intervention planning process, ensuring their voice is central and their needs are met. - Crisis and Emotional Support:
Being a consistent, compassionate presence for families experiencing difficult transitions, such as separation, bereavement, illness, or financial stress. - Group-based Parenting Programmes and Workshops:
Delivered in collaboration with other professionals, these programmes create space for shared learning, peer connection, and confidence-building.
Our aim is to empower families and strengthen community connections through accessible, responsive services.
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.”
– Peggy O’Mara
Family life can be complex and demanding, and it’s natural for parents and caregivers to face challenges at different stages.
Our family support service is here to walk alongside families during those times – offering guidance, understanding, and encouragement when it’s needed most. We aim to empower parents by building on their existing strengths, supporting them to navigate difficulties, and helping them develop confidence and skills to nurture positive family relationships and well-being.
“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.”
– Barbara Johnson
“Behind every young child who believes in themselves is a parent who believed first.”
– Matthew L. Jacobson
Family life can be challenging and complicated and all parents struggle from time to time. The focus of family support is to help, be there for parents, during these times of struggle and to help further enhance and develop parenting skills.
“Your children will become who you are, so be who you want them to be.”
– David Bly
If you feel you could benefit from this service please contact one of our Family Support Workers today
Did you know that the most important relationship your child will ever have is their relationship with you?
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