About Us

How We Support You and Your Family

Welcome to One Family, we are here to offer support, information and services to all members of all one-parent families, to those experiencing an unplanned pregnancy and to those working with one-parent families.

We put children at the centre of our work and we help all the adults in their lives so that includes mums, dads, grandparents, step-parents, new partners and other siblings. One Family’s holistic model of specialist family support services works in two ways – firstly, to progress parents on social welfare to take the next step to education, training or employment; and secondly, to provide expert parenting and family supports to people parenting alone or sharing parenting and to those working with one-parent families.

We would also love you to Join us to become a member of One Family or to learn more about our policy and research  work as we work to make things better for one-parent families at a national level.

Our Vision

One Family believes in an Ireland where every family is cherished equally, and enjoys the social, financial and legal equality to create their own positive future.

Our Mission

One Family is working to ensure a positive and equal future for all members of all one-parent families in Ireland – changing attitudes, services, policies and lives. Together with one-parent families and those working with them, we are committed to achieving equality and respect for all families.

In addition to striving for fundamental structural change, we support individual one-parent families as they parent through times of family, work and life change, and those experiencing a crisis pregnancy. We know that every family is unique, and so we work in a family centred way to bring about better lives for parents and children.

One Family Values

In One Family we work from a place of respect and acceptance of the parents, children and organisations that we come in contact with.

We work with compassion, which means that we connect with others in a relationship of equals and we are completely non-judgmental.

We believe that we can hold the hope for the families we work with, especially when they are unable to.

We achieve this through innovation, excellence, determination and our client-centred approach.

One Family is an organisation of great courage as it has been from its foundation and we continue to work with integrity to ensure equality for all one-parent families in Ireland.