Addiction Support Service, Counselling, Family Support, Juvenile Justice, Training and Employment.

Contact Person Paul Delaney (Project Co-ord) / Paul O Brien (Services Manager).

Target Age Group All Services : 18 years and over 1-to-1 / Counselling : Under 18’s

This service is for people with mild to moderate psychological difficulties.  It is a short-term counselling service that provides up to 8 counselling sessions with a  professionally qualified and accredited Counsellor / Therapist.

The County Wexford Health Advocate is employed by the Ferns Diocesan Youth Service (FDYS) with funding from the HSE Social Inclusion CHO Area 5.

Aims;

Special Needs Early Childhood Care and Education.

Referrals are accepted from all over the county but are filtered through the Early Intervention Team.

The Family Mediation Service is a professional, confidential service which enables couples who have decided to separate, or who have already separated, to negotiate their separation agreement. This is done with the help of a trained mediator, without resorting to adjudication through the courts.

Referrals Referrals can be made through any locally based organisation.

Eligibility Criteria Provides a wide ranging information service to young people in the Wexford town area and service others through information points in Enniscorthy, Gorey and New Ross.

Contact Person Siobhan Mc Mahon

The Traveller Inclusion Project aims to work with the Traveller communities throughout Co. Wexford to build Traveller capacity by providing support, information and referrals through culturally appropriate needs based services and programmes such as ;

This is a Statutory service provided through Tusla Child & Family Agency. The team provides a link worker support service to foster carers to assist them in caring for and meeting the needs of the Children In Care placed in their care. The staff members provide specific training to foster carers and additional training and support opportunities on a group level to carers.

Garda JLO’s are specially trained officers who are assigned to work with underage offenders (under 18 years of age). They deal with young people and their families re: crime prevention, the operation of the Youth Diversion Projects and other areas related to young people and the criminal justice system.