FRGJOB_1415

Location: Kilkenny City

Closing date: 22nd January at 12pm

The successful candidate will be employed by Foróige as a Youth Officer. The Kilkenny Carlow Integrated Youth and Family Project provided by Foróige, in partnership with Tusla. The service offers structured support to identified at-risk young people and families in counties Kilkenny and Carlow. 

The projects implements a model of working with vulnerable young people and families and provides specialist intervention and support services in partnership with others for: 

• Identified young people, who are at risk of reception into care. 
• Young people who are in foster care and approaching disengagement. 
• Young people returning to their family of origin after a period of time in care. 
• Young people with identified additional needs or levels of risk. 
• Parents and siblings of those engaged. 

This service aims to meet a clearly identified need to respond in a comprehensive, holistic way to the needs of vulnerable young people and their families. Interventions delivered are experiential, developmental, resilience building programmes designed to promote positive coping capacities and self-care in the face of stressful and difficult circumstances.