Enable Ireland Tipperary Children's Services

Aims of the Service:

  • To provide a break for families from providing continual care and assistance to children and adults with disabilities.
  • To create a positive and challenging experience for people with disabilities availing of the service.
  • To contribute to the personal and social development of people with disabilities and where possible facilitate inclusion in mainstream community based activities.

Current Service Provision

We are currently providing services for 135 children with intellectual, physical & sensory and autistic spectrum disabilities in North Tipperary.

A broad range of service options are provided in partnership with the carers and families to support people with disabilities in their own home or in community based settings. These include:

  • In-home support

  • Access to and participation in community based social and recreational activities

  • Summer projects – assistance in participation in mainstream camps. Provision of special day camps where necessary.

  • Residential breaks and sleep overs

  • After-school clubs

  • Crisis packages

 

Service Development

As the service continues to develop the focus of activities is moving from the home to community based activities. There is also a significant number of families who feel that for them to have a quality respite break it is important that the child can access activities outside of the home.

In recognition of the evolving services a voluntary development group got together with the aim of providing a facility to accommodate the various strands of the service. Funds are currently being raised to develop our Family Support and Respite Service. This planned residential and social centre in Nenagh will provide residential respite services to families with children with disabilities in North Tipperary.

This has been made possible through the provision of a site by Nenagh Town Council, and the work of our voluntary fundraising team. This facility will cost €2 million to build and will provide state of the art therapeutic and recreational facilities, kitchen and living areas, social venue and bedrooms.

Chairperson of Sunderland FC Niall Quinn has kindly agreed to be patron of this new facility.