The goal of the DSP Intreo service is to promote a caring society through ensuring access to income supports, employment supports and other services, enabling active participation in society, promoting social inclusion and supporting families. Intreo service is both universal and also targeted at specific groups.
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Dept of Social Protection, Intreo Services (Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim)
The goal of the DSP Intreo service is to promote a caring society through ensuring access to income supports, employment supports and other services, enabling active participation in society, promoting social inclusion and supporting families. Intreo service is both universal and also targeted at specific groups.
Foroige, South Leitrim Youth and Family Support Services
The South Leitrim Youth and Family Support Services Project is funded through Tusla as a community based family support project working primarily with young people aged 10 – 18 years who are at risk of or experiencing personal, social, educational and family difficulties, however the project is open to all young people. Based in and serving Carrick-on-Shannon this project has an outreach brief for the south Leitrim area including Mohill, Carrigallen, Ballinamore, Drumshanbo, Cloone/Aughavas and rural areas in between. The project provides one to one and group programmes meeting the needs of young people from a strengths based perspective.
GROW in Ireland
GROW is a uniquely structured community mental health movement. It is anonymous, non-denominational and open to all. Groups are run by their own members with the support of an area coordinator. Members are helped to recover from all forms of mental breakdown and we help people who suffer from depression, shyness and anxiety and panic attacks through the support the members give each other from their own experience in matters to do with mental health. GROW members attend a weekly meeting lasting about two hours during which follows a specific Group Method. There are approximately 130 GROW meetings taking place throughout Ireland.
HSE Health Promotion and Improvement
The Service provides training programmes that support mental health, and works with other providers to promote health and wellbeing to communities, including schools and youth settings. The service provides guidance and advice in relation to the promotion of mental health and the prevention of suicide.
Foróige Big Brother Big Sister (Co. Sligo)
Big Brother Big Sister is an internationally renowed youth mentoring programme that forms a friendship between an adult volunteer and a young person who will benefit from extra support. Together the volunteer and young person decide on the type of activities that they would like to do… go for coffee, play football, arts and crafts, play computers.
Sligo/Leitrim Home Youth Liaison Service
HYLS provide confidential, non-judgmental, and empathetic support to young people and their families with the objective of enhancing the young person’s social development and well-being.
The HYLS has a wraparound approach with staff, working in both the formal settings of all post-primary schools in our region. Then also in the community where the service has youth workers attached to all the TUSLA Social work teams, providing out-of-hours service and residential weekends and summer activity programmes.
The HYLS place the young person at the centre of the decision-making process with the aim of allowing young people to take responsibility for their own choices and actions.
HYLS has a Young Parents Support Programme for parents under 24 who are expecting a baby or have a child. The support is available for mothers, fathers and their families. This support is free and confidential.
Ballymote Family Resource Centre
Services are both universal and targeted.
- Parenting programmes
- Homework Club
- After School taster sessions – art/cookery/drama/etc Youth Club
- One-to-One supports to parents
- Meitheal
- Counselling
- Restorative Practice
- Family Access
- Back to Education programmes for unemployed
- Lifeskills programme for rural isolated people
- Senior Alert System
- Advocacy
- Holistic Therapy programme
- Addiction/recovery programme
- Childminding in the FRC whilst parents attend courses & programmes
- Childcare service
- Citizens Information Service
- Community Allotment Scheme/community garden scheme
- Computer classes
- Counselling service – General Counselling – Teens Counselling
- Suicide Prevention Courses
- Disability Initiatives
- Drop-in for information
- Men’s Shed
- Long Term Unemployed Initiatives
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service
- Parent & Toddler Group
- Library and book time for toddlers & young children
- Toy Library
- Narcotics Anonymous/AA
- Youth Club Newspaper
- Library Facilities
HSE Psychology Services
The Primary Care Psychology Service is a life-span service that provide a first line response for children, young people and adults with emerging mild-to-moderate mental health presentations that are associated with minimal-to-occasional distress, low-to-moderate impact to functioning. Please contact our service for more information
Leitrim Sports Partnership
Leitrim Sports Partnership LSP provides a management role for the coordination, development and delivery of sport and recreational activity in Leitrim. In our new strategic plan, we plan to build on the achievements of the last four years where we have implemented a long term approach to increasing participation and the benefits of active and healthy living among the following key target groups, children, teenagers, families, adults, people with disabilities and disadvantaged communities. The LSP will continue to empower and work in partnership with all sporting partners and stakeholders on an on-going basis and facilitate effective working relationships between all agencies involved in the development of sport and physical activity in the County.
The main functions of the Leitrim Sports partnership is, information and support, to provide education and training opportunities and to support the development and implementation of Irish Sports Council and local key partners programmes and events in sport and physical activity.
