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2024 Our Impact at a Glance

  • 30,839 client contacts across our services
     

  • 4,246 individuals supported, including 2,225 children and 2,021 parents and guardians
     

  • 11% increase in referrals to therapeutic child & family centres
     

  • 25% increase in referrals to family centres since the pandemic

  • 14% rise in children referred for mental health or anxiety
     

  • Parental mental health identified as the leading cause of welfare concerns
     

  • Increasing complexity and risk across services, including within Dublin Safer Families
     

  • Ongoing pressures caused by housing shortages, mental-health access barriers, and delayed assessments of need

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Meeting the needs of families in a constantly changing world

ABOUT US

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The Daughters of Charity Child and Family Service (DoCCFS) is a not for profit public service organisation. We provide a range of therapeutic supportive services to children and families based known in the greater Leinster Region.

OUR SERVICES

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Our services include Family Centres, ECDS, Assessment Centres and a Gender, Sexual & Domestic Abuse Service.

Our Family Centres offer a range of therapeutic supportive interventions to children up to the age of 18 years and their parents or carers. Our approach to working with families is needs led, strengths based and solution focussed.

GET SUPPORT

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The Daughters of Charity Child and Family Service, recognising the essential dignity and potential of every person and the right of every child to live as full a life as possible within his or her own family, undertakes to deliver quality services to children at risk and families most in need.

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About Our Services

Meeting the needs of families in a constantly changing world

 

Our Services include an Early Childhood Development Service (ECDS), Family Centre Service, Dublin Safer Families Service and Assessment Services. 

 

We are committed to ensuring that the services we provide are making a difference by providing a quality led service to the people we work with. We constantly strive to improve the services we offer through research and evaluation.  

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