Bawnogue Youth & Family
Support Group
Unit 11 & 13 Bawnogue Shopping Centre
Bawnogue, Clondalkin
Dublin 22
Telephone: 01 4572938
Fax: 01 4572958
Email: byfsg@eircom.net
Target Group:
- Over 18’s.
- Parents and family members of Drug misusers
Supports / Services Offered:
- Key working
Offering one to one support and Group work in a safe and
confidential environment. Providing information/advice,
support and referrals
- Counseling: Referrals for counseling.
- Complimentary Therapies: Providing a range of therapies
i.e. Shiatsu, Reflexology, Reiki, Indian Head Massage
etc.
- Drop In’s:
Homeless breakfast drop in 9.00 to 9.30.
Twice daily drop in 10.30 to 11.30 and 3.30 to 4.30
Friday 2.30 to 3.30
Late night drop in, Monday evening 8.00 to 10.00pm
- Family Support:
Provides support to parents, partners & siblings of
drug misuser’s.
How to Contact Service:
Call in or ring for appointment during opening hours.
Opening Hours:
Mon – Thurs 9 - 5
Fri 9 - 4
Late night Drop in 8 - 10pm Monday evenings
Family Support Group 7.30 - 9.30 Wed Evening
Year Established:
1999
Beacon of Light Counselling
Centre
4 Collinstown Grove
Neilstown
Clondalkin
Dublin 22
Telephone: 01 4578700
Fax: 01 4578701
Email: beaconoflight@iolfree.ie
Target Group:
Individuals, families and children in need of counselling,
personal development or group support.
Services Offered:
1. Counselling:
Relationships, family, childhood issues, substance misuse,
personal development, parenting, bereavement/grief, behavioural
difficulties, confidence and self-esteem
2. Workshops:
Personal development workshops in the following areas:
- Healing the child within
- Understanding your family system
- Building confidence and self esteem
- Reducing stress in your life
- Relationships and communication
- Positive parenting
- Co-dependency
- Anger management
- Dream Therapy
- Meditation/relaxation
- Angels, guides and intuition
- Setting and achieving your goals
3. Group Facilitation on request e.g.:
- Bereavement
- Crisis intervention
- Men’s or Women’s Groups etc.
Supports / Services available to schools:
Counselling for parents and children
Parenting Courses
Personal development workshops as listed above
Group facilitation
How to contact the service:
By phone
Opening hours:
Open daily at 9:00 am. Closes: Monday and Tuesday 9:00pm,
Wednesday & Thursday 7:00pm, Friday 5:30pm
Year Established:
2002
Clondalkin Partnership
Incredible Years Project
Camac House,
Oakfield Industrial Estate,
Clondalkin
Tel: 01 4576433
Fax: 01 4577145
E-mail: cmockler@clondalkinpartnership.ie
Target Group:
Children, adolescents and families experiencing emotional
and behavioral difficulties.
Services Offered:
Incredible Years Parental and Child Social Competencies
training programmes
Supports / Services available to Schools:
Incredible Years Teacher training and Classroom Management
training. The Incredible Years Project also provides advice
and support to schools and organisations wishing to introduce
the programmes into their service. The project also accepts
client referrals from schools within the greater Clondalkin
area.
How to contact the service:
Through the offices of the Clondalkin Partnership.
Contact Persons
Ms Carol Mockler, Sean Mc Donnell, Ms Margaret Maher
Opening Hours:
9-5p.m. Monday - Friday
Year Established:
2003
Cumas Project
Unit 1-2 Neilstown Shopping Centre
Neilstown Road
Clondalkin
Telephone: 01 4573515
Fax: 01 4573122
Email: cumas@indigo.ie
Target Group:
Parents and families of drug users, and young drug users
themselves.
Services Offered:
- Provides information and advice on a range of drug
related issues, and referral to appropriate services.
- Provides support to parents / grandparents and siblings
of drug users, and to young drug users themselves.
- Offers advocacy on behalf of families and drug users.
- Provides stress management and relaxation therapies
such as acupuncture and acupressure.
Childcare worker who works with children of drug users.
Supports / Services Available to Schools:
Informal Support as follows:
- Offers support on an individual basis to families /
young people with concerns around drug use.
- Offers group work to young people and children where
there is Drug use in the home.
- The venue for group work / individual work can be in
the home, the project or an agreed location
How to Contact Service:
- Self – referral. Call in during opening hours or phone
during office hours.
- In writing.
- By referral from another agency.
Opening Hours:
Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.
Year Established:
1998.
Dochas Family Centre
Liscarne Gardens
Clondalkin
Tel: 01 6234531
Fax: 01 6232785
Email: dochasfamilycentre@eircom.net
Target Group:
Children who have social, emotional and behavioral needs
and their families, who are in the age range of 8-12yrs
and who attend one of the four local primary schools in
north Clondalkin
Additional support provided for 12-15yrs.
Those who have already gone through the main programme
Siblings of main programme children
Services Offered:
To Children:
- Individual therapeutic work and personal development.
- Educational assessments on the child’s strengths and
difficulties and provision of tailored educational programmes
- Educational psychological assessments
- Monitoring and supporting school attendance
- Group work – creative, educational, recreational and
social skills groups
- Breakfast clubs
To Parents:
- Weekly home visits offering support, advice, information
on child / family matters, housing and financial matters.
- Alcohol addiction counseling service
- Group work: Personal development, 1st Aid, Creative
groups, Incredible years
(Parenting programme)
To Agencies:
- Inter agency
- Consultation and support e.g. with schools, with Health
board staff, and with Child guidance staff
Who Can Refer:
School, health board staff, agencies, parents
Opening Hours:
Monday 7.30am-8.30pm.
Tuesday 9am-6pm.
Wed / Thurs 7.30am-5.30pm.
Friday 9am-4.30pm.
Year Established:
1994.
Graft Parenting Programme
Social Work Department
Families First Family Functional
Therapy
Families First: Functional Family Therapy,
Unit 3,
Oakfield
Clondalkin,
Dublin 22
Tel: (01) 4574752 / 0879151449
Email: alee@clondalkinpartnership.ie
Program Description
Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is an empirically grounded,
well-documented and highly successful systemic family prevention
and intervention programme for a wide range of problems
experienced by at-risk adolescents and youth with serious
issues.
Target Audience
Youth ages 11–18, whose problems range from
- Conduct behaviours
- Antisocial behaviour
- Substance abuse
- The effects of violence, sexual abuse or other abuse
in the family and rebuilding relationships after traumatic
family events
- Stress and its effects on personal relationships
- Problems relating to separation, divorce, step parenting,
parenting alone, remarriage, fostering
Message to Parents
Parents are often frustrated with more referrals to services,
and may be anxious about participating in a family therapy.
Simply put, we are offering a short-term approach that is
designed to help families help themselves, to solve problems
in a way that suits their own family and their own needs.
Referral Process
Who can refer? :
- H.S.E. staff, Child care workers, Social workers,
- Psychology, Family support etc.
- Medical practitioners, - GP’s, Public Health Nurses
etc.
- Garda- Juvenile Liaison officers /Community Officers
- Teachers/Resource Workers
- Voluntary Organisations/ relevant agencies
- Other -Project Workers
How to refer:
- Written referrals are accepted on the Clondalkin Partnership
Functional Family Therapy referral forms
- Where a referral form is not available please complete
a comprehensive letter of referral. Official forms will
be posted or emailed to the referring agency within 24
hours.
- Telephone referrals may be accepted in urgent cases
but must be followed by completion of a referral form.
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