Family-Parenting

ACCORD is a voluntary Catholic organisation that aims to promote a deeper understanding of Christian marriage and to offer people the means to safeguard and nourish their marriage and family relationships.

Our aim is to help couples prepare for, achieve and sustain their marriage and family relationships, to offer ongoing relationship support and assist them in times of difficulty or crisis.
Our core services are Marriage and Relationship Counselling and Marriage Preparation Programmes.

The aim of the Adlerian Network of Ireland is to promote the understanding and application of Adlerian Psychology. The ANI acts as a coordinating body for two committees which function under its umbrella. These are the Summer School Committee and the South Tipperary Parent Network.

Adoption Loss is a service run by the Natural Parents Network of Ireland - a voluntary self-help group offering support to mothers and fathers who have lost children to adoption at any time in the past.

Our vision is to play our part in the re-evangelisation and the transformation of society in Ireland, through the local church - one life, one church, one community at a time.

Aonad Resource Centre opened its doors in February 2003. It has since become progressively busier as the rural community of North East Galway explore the supports and services that we can provide.

Artane Coolock Resource & Development Centre aims to support and encourage active participation and community involvement, so that people can determine their own needs and develop suitable responses to
these needs.

We will strive to promote equality under the nine grounds of the equality legislation.

- Race
- Age
- Gender
- Family Status
- Sexual Orientation
- Disability
- Marital Status
- Religious Belief
- Membership of the Traveler Community

Ethos of the Resource Centre:

The FRC programme is Ireland’s largest family support programme delivering universal services to families in disadvantaged areas across the country based on a life-cycle approach. The programme emphasises involving local communities in tackling the problems they face, and creating successful partnerships between voluntary and statutory agencies at community level. FRCs are participative and empowering organisations that support families while building the capacity and leadership of local communities.

Areas of work: Empowering a voice for choice, independence and inclusion, ARCS provides Social care services to those with an ASD diagnosis through residential, shared care and community outreach services.

Baby Friendly Health Initiative in Ireland (BFHI) is a registered charity active since 1998 and serves as the National Authority for the WHO/UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative in Ireland. All maternity units participate in the BFHI in Ireland.

The main object for which the BFHI is established is to benefit the community by encouraging and supporting health-promoting practices towards ensuring a breastfeeding supportive health care environment which fosters life-long health for infants and their mothers.

Activity of the BFH aims to:

The Bluestack Special Needs Foundation was established in 2006. It is a voluntary organization run predominantly by parents of children with special needs and professionals who work in the field.  Its mission is two fold, to enhance the lives of people with special needs and to support families with a special need dependent.

We run a range of programmes and supports for people in the north west. We try to act as an initial supportive contact for families.

Boherbue Educare Centre provides an integrated community based approach to childcare, so as to cater for the needs and aspirations of parents and children.

Boherbue Educare is a community based group whose aim is to promote equality of opportunity, self development, social inclusion, and a better community by enabling and empowering parents and by providing quality education and care for children.

Dublin City Childcare Committee (DCCC) is one of 33 County and City Childcare Committee’s established throughout the country.

It is made up of a central office and 5 Local Childcare Resource Centres (LCRC’s). DCCC and the 5 LCRC’s offer information and supports to parents, providers of childcare, childcare workers, home based childminders and employers.