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Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year from all the staff in One Family. We want to thank all our service user who trusted us to support them in 2022 and to all our colleagues, funders and donors; without you we wouldn't be able to provide the support we do. Thank you.

We would also like to thank all the individuals, companies and their staff who contributed to our Toy Appeal. Your donations went straight to children and vulnerable families throughout Ireland. Thank you for making a child's Christmas:

•             Google Ireland and the Google Givers. 
•             Maples Group Dublin. 
•             Park n'Chill. 
•             Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants.
•             Ellucian. 
•             Learnosity.
•             Guggenheim Partners Europe Limited. 
•             Droga5 (Rothco).
•             A&L Goodbody.
On Monday 5th December, One Family held the third in our series of webinars looking at Family Law Reform. This webinar examined  the needs of separating families and looked at the Department of Justice’s Family Justice Strategy and recently published Family Courts Bill. The webinar  featured a panel of national and international experts including Diana Lowe (King’s Counsel) of the Reforming the Family Justice System (RFJS) initiative, Alberta, Canada,  Andrew Munro,  Assistant Secretary, at the Department of Justice, One Family CEO Karen Kiernan and Dr. Simone McCaughren, Assistant Professor, Social Work, Trinity College Dublin. To look back at the webinar and for associated resources please see links below:
Recording of Building a Family Law System for Separating Families webinar

Presentations and Resources

Presentations:

Resources:
Building a Family Law System for Separating Families

In-Person and Online Courses

One Family offer a range of parenting supports. Group-based courses are currently offered via live Zoom sessions to small groups of parents. There are opportunities at various times over the year to take the course in person when we partner with a community organisation. Learn more about these courses here.

Our E-learning for parents’ offers a selection of five online courses that allows you to learn at your own pace. You can sign up for the courses here. We have also recently redesigned the Family Communications: Separating Well for Children e-course. You can learn more about the course here.

The professionals e-course has just been launched. You can register for the professionals course here. 

New Research and Guidelines
L-R: Soma Gregory, Dr Simone Gregory, Dr Stephanie Holt, Karen Kiernan, Niamh Kelly

[In picture L-R: Soma Gregory, Dr Simone Gregory, Dr Stephanie Holt, Karen Kiernan, Niamh Kelly]

On Monday 12 December,  at an event in Trinity College Dublin, One Family with academic researchers launched a Research Report and Best Practice Guidelines on Contact Time for Infants and Young Children in Separated Families.

We see through our work with  families that parents often struggle to determine how to best share the parenting of their young children. This can be extremely challenging for parents and children alike, particularly in situations where there is conflict, abuse and/or limited contact between parents.

To research this area and determine a best practice set of guidelines for parents and professionals, One Family commissioned a joint team from University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin  to research Guidance on Contact Time for Infants and Young Children in Separated Families. The research was conducted by Dr Simone Mc Caughren, Dr Stephanie Holt, Dr Aisling Parkes and Soma Gregory and was funded by the Late, Late Toy Show Appeal and Community Foundation of Ireland. The best practice guidelines were developed by One Family using the research findings. Please click on the link below to read the research report and best practice guidelines.
Research and Guidelines on Contact between Parents and Infants/Young Children in Separaterd Families

New One Family Strategy
2022-2024
One Family has launched our new organisational strategy for 2022-2024. This strategy was developed following a comprehensive consultation exercise with staff, our board and hundreds of families, funders, policy makers, and other service providers. We also conducted a comprehensive review of all aspects of our organisation and the external environment in which we operate. The strategy has three pillars 1) Family Support Strategy, 2) Represent, champion and celebrate and 3) Sustaining a strong organisation.

You can read the strategy by clicking on the picture below: 

Media and Policy
This month, we welcomed the launch of the Joint Oireachtas Committee report on #GenderEquality which includes strong recommendations regarding Constitutional change for #familyequality. This report is a watershed moment for one-parent families. It not only recommends equal constitutional recognition for all families, but includes steps to reduce poverty such as benchmarking social welfare against #MESL & establishing an independent #ChildMaintenance agency.

Read the report in the link below:
Read the report here
Issues facing one-parent families have been prominent in the media with One Family and other NGOs advocating on behalf of families. Please see below a selection of stories from the month:

Radio and News Articles

One Family, Rainbows Ireland and Ozanam House are working together with the support of Toy Show Funding to roll out Rainbows Groups for children.

Groups start on Oct 17th and will be running until June 2023.

The Rainbows Ireland service is an inclusive service, supporting children and young people experiencing grief and loss resulting from bereavement/parental separation/parental relationship breakdown /divorce. Attending the programme provides children with an opportunity to meet with other children of a similar age and loss experience.

We will work to engage their parent in a 6-week programme, so they feel more able to support their child following an experience of loss through separation or bereavement.

We are open to all queries - you are welcome to call into Ozanam House on Monday or Tuesday to meet with Roisin for more details also.

Please share this project with your colleagues – there is no catchment area.
 
Contact details:
Project Coordinator – Roisin Sarsfield
Phone number – 089 9407519
Webpage – https://onefamily.ie/the-pillar-project/
Email – roisin@pillarproject.ie
 
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Trading as One Family, Cherish CLG is a company limited by guarantee not having a share capital, registered in Dublin, Ireland with registered office at 8 Coke Lane, Dublin 7 and registered Company Number 45364. One Family is also a charity (Charity Regulatory Authority No. 20012212 and Charity No. 6525).
Directors of One Family:  Helen Hall, Jennifer Good, Nuala Haughey, Eimear Fisher, Jack Eustace, Donagh McGowan, Rosemary Wokocha and John Bohan.
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