2015
Projects completed in 2015
| Project Title | Lone Parents and Activation, What Works and Why: A Review of the International Evidence in the Irish Context. |
| Completed Date | December 2015 |
| Research Team |
Dr Michelle Millar, Dr Rosemary Crosse |
| Project Summary | This research investigated best practice and innovative approaches to the labour market activation of lone parents in Ireland and internationally. More specifically, the research focused on the implementation of policies, programmes and practices which enable lone parents to engage in paid employment or progress to employment. Where such employment ultimately provides adequate living standards, improved individual and family well-being and better social outcomes. In essence the study concerns the labour market activation of lone parents, what works and why? Answers have been achieved by providing an evidence base concerning what works in assisting lone parents in the labour market activation process and why it worked. This evidence is grounded in its application to the Irish context, by giving due consideration to the profile of Irish lone parents and the barriers to paid employment experienced by them as well as the relevance and applicability of such approaches to the Irish policy landscape. |
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| Project Title | An Operational Profile and Exploration of the Personal Benefits of the Youth Café Model in Ireland. |
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| Completed date | April 2015 |
| Research Team |
Dr Cormac Forkan, Dr Bernadine Brady , Dr Lisa Moran, Dr Liam Coen |
| Project Summary |
This was a national ‘flagship’ study of the implementation of the youth café model in Ireland, capturing young people’s views, opinions and attitudes about the impacts of the model on their everyday lives. It employed a mixed-method approach to data collection, utilising a comprehensive survey instrument administered to all youth cafes in the country about their adoption of the YC model and how it works in practice, interviews with young people, volunteers and staff members at youth cafes and Irish youth policy informants. Overall the project findings imply that youth cafes may have significant benefits for perceived social support and resilience among young people and youth cafes are an important part of young people’s social ecology. This report was launched officially in ILAS in April 2015. |
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Suite of Policy and Guidance Documents for the Child and Family Agency – Tusla |
| Completed Date | April 2015 |
| Research Team |
Dr John Canavan, Dr Carmel Devaney, Ms Danielle Kennan and Mr Fergal Landy |
| Project Summary |
Between 2013-2015, the UNESCO CFRC published a suite of documents to support the development of family support within Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. The documents were commissioned by the Children and Family’s Directorate of the HSE. The documents are: Guidance for the Implementation of an Area Based Approach to Prevention, Partnership and Family support; Meitheal - A National Practice Model for all Agencies working with Children, Young People and their Families; the Child and Family Agency Commissioning Strategy; a Parenting Support Strategy; 50 Key Messages to accompany the Parenting Support Strategy; Towards the Development of a Children’s Participation Strategy; and What Works in Family Support? The project team was led by Dr Aisling Gillen, National Specialist Family Support, Tusla Child and Family Agency.
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| Project Title | Responding to Child to Parent Violence Action Research Project |
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| Completed date | January 2015 |
| Research Team |
Dr Declan Coogan and Ms Eileen Lauster |
| Project Summary |
Child to Parent Violence (CPV) is the most hidden, misunderstood and stigmatised form of family violence. It involves teenage and younger girls and boys who use physical, psychological, emotional and financial abuse over time to the extent that parents/carers live in fear of their child. This particular form of violence in the family is not yet being adequately addressed or explored in Europe. |
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