Parenting

Barnardos deliver services and work with families, communities, and partners to transform the lives of vulnerable children who are affected by adverse childhood experiences. The organisation offers a wide range of supports and programmes to children and young people aged 0–18, through services and projects throughout the country.

Bandon Family Resource Centre offers low cost counselling services to the community.

The Bagenalstown Family Resource Centre provides services such as general counselling, art therapy, as well as bereavement support groups free of charge.

The Young Parents Support Programme (YPSP) is a community-based support service for young parents. YPSP work with young people who become parents when they are aged 24 years or under and can support them until up to and including their child's first 1000 days.

Tusla is responsible for child protection/welfare in Ireland. It provides family support and assessment, psychological services, and more.

Treoir provides a free, confidential, specialist information service for parents not married to each other, living together or apart and their extended families.

Our focus is on practical approach to dealing with poverty, alleviating its effects on individuals and families through working primarily in person-to-person contact by a unique system of family visitation and seeking to achieve social justice and equality of opportunity for all citizens.

Parentline is a national, confidential helpline that offers parents support, information and guidance on all aspects of being a parent and any parenting issues.

One Family provides support services nationally to people parenting alone, people co-parenting or people with children who are separating.

With core funding provided by TUSLA it is one of 108 family resource centres which form a national community development and family support programme throughout Ireland.

Free family mediation service assists couples who are separating or who have separated to reach agreement on all matters relating to their separation.

The Family Resource Centre National Forum provides a support network working with Family Resource Centres (FRCs) throughout Ireland. There are now over 100 FRC's all over Ireland.