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  At the Cork Life Centre we spent the most extraordinary day yesterday sitting with our young people as they opened results most had never dreamed of achieving. Most of these young people in fact at many stages had given up on the idea that they would ever complete Leaving Certificate due to their life … Continue reading The Leaving Cert By Numbers

  I was at work yesterday pottering around waiting on the arrival of a potential volunteer  I was meeting(something I am always hoping to be doing at this time of the year!) I spotted quite by chance out of the corner of a tired eye a brown envelope that had landed beneath the letterbox.  This … Continue reading The Magic of Volunteering

Roisin Burke(As featured on the Evening Echo 08.06.2017) Delighted to share this article demonstrating the strength, resilience and talent of our young people. MORE than 6,000 students are taking the Leaving Certificate exams and among them will be a number of students from the Cork Life Centre. Cork Life Centre is an organisation who works … Continue reading Local teens overcome obstacles with Cork Life Centre

The Irish Childhood Bereavement Network estimates that in Ireland bereavement affects between 36,000 and 60,000 school children. Yet how many teachers or other professionals have the confidence to really talk to children about death and loss. Sometimes all that may be required is to listen or to give children a medium to express their feelings. … Continue reading Listening to Loss: Children and Bereavement

What an extraordinary week at the Cork Life centre for our annual Edmund Rice Conference. We have welcomed some wonderful guests into our community. As you enter our door you will see the following words 'May all who enter as guests leave as friends'. We could not wish for better friends and advocates for children … Continue reading Not just hearing but listening to young people’s voices

It’s that time of year again where we gather to learn about issues affecting young people’s lives from experts,guests and friends and most importantly from young people themselves. Next week beginning Tuesday May 2nd we will welcome guests and speakers Deirdre Burke(The Guardian Children’s Project), Shane Griffin (Care Leavers Ireland), Tony Bates (Headstrong), Ruairi McKiernan(Spunout,Uplift) […]

Some snaps from our wonderful Christmas dinner last week. Thanks to all who made it possible.

A school in the UK has put the UN Convention on the Right of the Child (UNCRC) at the heart of a its practice to improve well-being and help all children and young people realise their potential. This is something our schools here in Ireland could really learn from. A spokesman for the school said: “By … Continue reading School puts UNCRC at heart of ethos and culture

'Systems work best when individuals stop asking “What’s wrong with this child?” and start asking “What happened to this child?”'  That's the message from U.S. recent research on the need for a holistic response to young people's complex needs -one we wholeheartedly agree with. Too often, the behavioural health needs of youth go unidentified and unaddressed, … Continue reading “What happened to this child?”

Children in care are particularly vulnerable, especially those who are in residential care. It was quite shocking to read this week in the Irish Examiner that a primary-aged school child in residential care has not been in education since February and that she is risk of being “institutionalised.” As outlined in the report, the child … Continue reading Children in care must be educated, just like every other child #childrenincare