Barnardos Work in Cork - Creating Communities of Change with Barnardos

Families that Barnardos support are most at risk and vulnerable to continued and escalating life challenges. All it takes is one significant trauma or a negative life event to prompt the need for some additional support. Barnardos are proud to provide support services for the last 25 years in Cork for a child or a parent when they need it most.
 
Every day, Barnardos staff work to provide a range of services in our 3 services centres in Knocknaheeny, Mahon & Youghal and our office in Meade St, Cork City, supporting the Cork community and surrounding counties in Munster too.

Our Brighter Future Centres in Knocknaheeny provides Early Intervention Services for children under 5 years of age, who have behavioural issues or may not be making their developmental milestones and need additional supports before they start school.
Click to hear from Marion about what this local service means to children and families.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WoTOwJa8tk
 
The service also provides practical parenting courses, therapeutic intervention for interparental conflict and other family support services.
 
Our Youghal Family Resource centre is a newer initiative providing children and parenting workshops,  afterschool for children, summer programmes, family support, support for Ukrainian & IPAS families.  
 
Through our office in Meade Street, Barnardos provide specialist nationwide services too:
 

• Children’s Bereavement Service that also works with families to help them support their child through the grieving process

• Barnardos Post Adoption Service providing specialist therapeutic service to children and teenagers who are adopted both internationally and domestically – and their parents. Our birth mothers and adopted adults groups run both online and in person.

• Barnardos Birth History Service includes therapeutic support services to adopted adults, birth families, adults who were subject of an illegal birth registration and to individuals who were boarded out, fostered or nursed out as children in Ireland pre-1991.

 
Click here https://www.barnardos.ie/our-services/ for a full range of Barnardos nationwide services
 
Barnardos Information Service provide an information service on any issues relating to children and families  -  Call us at 01 - 4549699 or email us at info@barnardos.ie