Our vision is to support the people of County Leitrim in further enhancing its places and ways of living as flourishing, vibrant communities, with volunteering at its heart. Volunteers have the potential to build local value, increase their social capital, become active citizens, and provide support to community development projects.
Leitrim Volunteer Centre aims to match volunteers to suitable volunteer opportunities within community-based organisations. This is a great opportunity to engage transition year students looking for work experience, college-bound students looking to improve their employability, Parents, guardians and children looking to engage in family volunteering, immigrants looking to meet people and learn about their locality, individuals looking for once-off micro volunteering opportunities that fit their schedule, professionals looking to share their knowledge, and retirees looking to become active. There is something out there for everyone and we can help you find a volunteering opportunity that suits your interests.
If you are considering volunteering or have questions about what it entails, please give us a call. We can help you identify what kinds of skills, knowledge and experience you would like to develop when giving your time to an organisation. We can also help you think about your interests and the kind of organisation that you would like to support. Please download the I-VOL app on your phone to find opportunities near you!
We very much look forward to helping you on your volunteering journey
The Our Generation project is supported by the European Union’s Peace IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB). Our Generation is a cross-border, cross-community partnership project which is being delivered through seven regional organisations, namely Action Mental Health, Donegal Youth Service, Co-Operation Ireland, Youth Action NI, Youth Work Ireland, PlayBoard NI and Ulster University,
Youth Work Ireland OG team will be providing a lot of wonderful opportunities for young people to develop their knowledge around issues such as emotional well-being, sexual health, and leadership through the Be Well Programme, YES Project, and a pilot Social Action Project. We will be delivering across the border counties of Cavan, Monaghan, Sligo, Leitrim, and Donegal.
Sligo Springboard Family Support Service is a not for profit organisation established in 1996 in Cranmore, Co. Sligo and was known as Resource House Project. With over 24 years’ experience we understand just how difficult life can be at times. Based in Cranmore, we work with families from Sligo in Child and Family Support Network Area 3 (CFSN3).
We have a Family Support Service who work with families and children to alleviate stress, to overcome difficulties and to encourage each individual to reach their full potential. The specific supports we offer to families are as follows:
- Meitheal
- Parent’s Plus
- Non-Violent Resistance
- One-to One Interventions – Children & Young People
- Parenting Support
- Drop-In Support Service
Sligo Springboard Family Support Service have a Childcare Service that understands the importance of providing quality childcare that allows a child to learn and explore the world around them in a safe caring environment. To accomplish this, we implement a practical approach to curriculum development in combination with Aistear, the Irish Curriculum Framework, and Síolta, the Quality Standards Framework. Our Childcare Service provides the following services:
- Early Learning and Care,
- School Aged Childcare,
- Breakfast club,
- School bus,
- Homework support.
Triple P is a proven evidence based positive parenting programme which is free to parents/ guardians of children up-to age 10 years in Sligo and Leitrim. The programme offers parenting information, tips and strategies to help parents respond to the issues that inevitably arise in families. It is a one of a kind multi-level system offering a suite of programs of increasing intensity catering to different levels of family need. The options are a once off 1 and 1/2 hour seminar which provide information to parents/ guardians who are generally coping well but have one or two concerns with their child’s behaviour or development.
Some of the options are: Raising resilient children or raising confident, competent children. Two hour workshops targeting a specific problem behaviour or issue like dealing with disobedience, managing fighting and aggression or developing good bed-time routines.
Groups run over a few weeks and provide support to parents/ guardians who want support in their parenting role, want to prevent problems, and help to manage behaviours and emotional problems.
For details of up-coming events check out the Parent Hub facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/SligoLeitrimParentHub/ Programmes are also advertised on public notice boards and in your local community.
To book a place or find out more contact Aolish at aolishsligochildcare@gmail.com or phone 087 7391569. Triple P is also available for a fee on-line-www.triplep-parenting.uk.net https://www.triplep-parenting.net/global/triple-p/?cdsid=i2a7gd2a41jllcup8bkvsafij5
Moving Parents and Children Together provides free support and advice to professional agencies, individuals and their families through our Nine Week Programme, the Telephone and through our Online support/service. The M-PACT Programme helps build resilience and coping strategies by promoting positive change and honest communication in a friendly non – judgemental environment.
M-PACT supports families to work together to understand how parental substance misuse has affected their lives. M-PACT promotes a whole family approach and focuses on helping and supporting families to make positive changes. The programme, which is free, helps build resilience and coping strategies by promoting positive and honest communication.
A programme can bring together up to eight families at any one time, where at least one parent has or had an alcohol or drug problem and where there is at least one child aged 8-17 years old. The programme runs for nine consecutive weeks. Each session covers a different topic, and combines separate group work with children and adults, work with family units and whole group work when all participants come together. Each family has a review session shortly after the programme ends and a reunion session, approximately three months later, bringing the families together for the final time.
The HSE Counselling in Primary Care Service (CIPC) is a professional, confidential counselling and psychotherapy service available free of charge. The service is for people with mild to moderate psychological difficulties. It is a short-term counselling service that provides up to 8 counselling sessions with a professionally qualified and accredited Counsellor/Therapist.
It is a service for people who are 18 years of age or over, and who want help with psychological problems that are appropriate for time limited counselling in primary care.
The service is suitable for people who are experiencing certain difficulties such as:
- depression
- anxiety
- panic reactions
- relationship problems
- loss issues
- stress
The HSE National Counselling Service (NCS) is a professional, confidential counselling and psychotherapy service available free of charge in all regions of the Health Services Executive. Our client group are adults who have experienced trauma and abuse in childhood with priority given to adult survivors of institutional abuse in Ireland.
Foroige YESS Programme, funded by International Fund for Ireland, has been initiated as a youth employability support service in the South Sligo area.
Who is the programme for?
The programme is suitable for young people aged 16-25 who, having left education with low level qualifications, require support to re-engage with education, training or employment.
What we do…
We aim to help young people build and develop life skills that build confidence and resilience and make them more employable
We provide an individual support programme to meet the specific needs of each young person, with a strong emphasis on personal development and employability skills. Alongside the programme of individualised support there will be opportunities to engage in accredited training, work experience or internships in their area of interest.
The overall aim is that participants will be supported to re-enter training, education or employment.
How to get involved… for further information please contact:
Elizabeth Murphy (Foroige) Tel: 0860130795 Email: stacey.costello@foroige.ie
Stacey Costello Tel: 0867791682 Email: stacey.costello@foroige.ie
The Foróige Family Support Project (Network Area 2) is an outreach in-home service for families in the South Sligo and South Leitrim Area. The purpose of the project is to provide focused family based support with a community-based approach to build on the strengths and assets within the community to achieve positive outcomes for the young person and their family. It has a multi-agency approach and seeks to present a wraparound Family Support Service that is available to identified families and enables parents from diverse backgrounds to create healthy family relationships that foster safety and well-being at home, in school and in the community.
We are a charitable organisation. We provide one-to-one counselling for all issues, including the prevention of suicide, bereavement for families that have suffered a loss through suicide, also bereavement support and counselling for all types of losses. We provide counselling for families and children experiencing emotional distress. The vision of the centre is to have a non-denominational Family Life Centre. We will value the uniqueness of each individual, irrespective of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, age, disability, race and membership of the travelling community. Confidential, respectful, therapeutic and peaceful haven for individuals, families and couples are offered to help them move forward with their lives.
