Celebrate

We celebrated Family Day in the Iveagh Gardens, Dublin 2 and nationally on Sunday, 19 May. A record-breaking 10,000 people attended our free, day-long festival. Family Day is presented by One Family and EBS.

 

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Learn

We offer a range of parenting courses throughout the year for people who parent alone or share parenting including Positive Parenting, Parenting Teens & Learning how to Communicate as a Family and Parenting When Separated. Registration is ongoing; click here to express your interest.

 

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Join

Help us to build a nationwide movement of people who are committed to change for one-parent families. Click here to become a One Family Member.

 

 

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Train

Are you a trainer? Positive Parenting – Building Strong Relationships with Children and Family Communications – Coping with Family Life and Communicating with Teenagers are courses devised to prepare you to design and deliver parenting courses, with extra supports built in for those parenting alone, sharing parenting and parenting through family change.

 

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Run/Walk

Entry is open until April 24th for the Flora Women’s Mini Marathon. Register online or by using the entry form in the Evening Herald every Wednesday and Saturday.

The event takes place on June 3rd. If you’d like to raise funds for One Family, please email or call us and we’ll send you a sponsorship form and t-shirt.

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Sign

Sign the petition for Ten Solutions Smarter Futures, One Family’s campaign to help those parenting alone back into work and education.

 

 

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Latest News

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Update on JAT following briefing at Dept of Social Protection

May 21st, 2013

One Family attended a briefing this evening at the Department of Social Protection to learn about the new scheme announced today that will be available to lone parents:  Jobseekers' Allowance - Transition. The scheme removes the requirement to be looking and available for full-time employment, but has particular conditionalities that must be met. The Department will be sending letters out to those who were previously expected to move onto Jobseekers' Allowance in the first week of July. Local offices will not have full details of the JAT until next week. To read additional information from One Family, including Q&A, please click here. Anyone [...]

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New Jobseekers' Transition arrangement: For lone parents work is now more of a possibility

May 21st, 2013

Press Release For lone parents work is now more of a possibility (Dublin, 21 May 2013) Today, Minister Burton, listening and responding to One Family’s Ten Solutions campaign is presenting to Cabinet a progressive reform which will allow lone parents who are on social welfare to seek part-time work rather than full-time when they are moved to Jobseekers Allowance through a new arrangement called Jobseeker’s Transition. One Family's Director of Policy and Programmes, Stuart Duffin explains: ‘We have been advocating for this progressive reform since Budget 2012. All our evidence suggests that lone parents often need to access jobs with relatively short hours when returni[...]

Families

How we support families

If you are a member of a one-parent family, find out about our specialist services for you – everything from our helpline and counseling, to brand new courses to get you back to work or education.

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Professionals

Professionals

Service providers can refer clients to our services or participate in our professional training courses; media and researchers can get the latest facts on one-parent families and updates on our policy and research.

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Supporters

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Supporters can find more about who we are, how we change lives, and why we continue to need your help - along with how and where your funding is spent.

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Latest News

Update on JAT following briefing at Dept of Social Protection Posted on May 21, 2013
New Jobseekers’ Transition arrangement: For lone parents work is now more of a possibility Posted on May 21, 2013
One Family calls for national debate on what family means Posted on May 14, 2013

One Family is Ireland’s national organisation for one-parent families. We work with all types and all members of one-parent families, respecting the realities of family life, to affect positive change and achieve equality and social inclusion for all one-parent families in Ireland.

— Karen Kiernan, Director