Connecting with Our Colleagues in Family Resource Centres!

Kinship Care was delighted to attend the Family Resource Centre National Forum Event in Athlone, on October 12th 2022. Family Resource Centres provide much needed hubs within communities, where kinship carers can access support. See: https://www.familyresource.ie/

A Grandmother’s Story

Our colleagues in ICAAN have produced this video with support from the North-East Regional Drug and Alcohol Task Force and the Family Addiction Support Network in the Northeast, featuring a Grandmother who shared her story of taking on the care of her grandchildren. It is an experience that many grandparent kinship carers will relate to.  

Kinship Care and Children’s Rights

Kinship Care Ireland was delighted to have an input into the submission made by Dr Aoife Daly, Lecturer in Law, University College Cork, to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, for the Day of General Discussion on “Children’s Rights and Alternative Care” in September 2021. Dr Daly examines the rights of children […]

National Lottery Grant Scheme 2021

Kinship Care Ireland is delighted to have received funding from the HSE under the National Lottery Grant Scheme 2021, to provide Self Care Workshops for Kinship Carers. We are planning to hold these in September/October, so watch this space and let us know by email, if you would like to put your name down in […]