One Family

🌟Free workshop this Thursday! 🌟

1️⃣Develop confidence about how to talk to your child about contact time
2️⃣Learn practical approaches in how to support your children
3️⃣Gain support on how to navigate situations where this is challenging or difficult
4️⃣Learn about further support families can avail of

✅Register now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/supporting-children-with-contact-time-with-their-other-parent-tickets-1987323396777?aff=oddtdtcreator

🗣️ Last week, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
released the latest homelessness figures. While it's not a surprise, it remains shocking how high family homelessness is. These latest figures show family homelessness is deepening.

❗ The housing needs of one-parent families are diverse. The housing crisis is creating multiple, interlocked problems for the families we support.

➡️ Parents are separated, but are forced to stay in the same house together as they can’t access or afford separate housing.

➡️ Parents are unable to have their children visit or stay with them because they are living in shared accommodation and can’t have their child over, negatively impacting on children and parents.

➡️ Many families are part of the "hidden" homeless; staying with relatives, friends, on couches and moving around to avoid entering emergency accommodation and aren’t even represented in these figures.

➡️ Some families are living in emergency accommodation for months, sometimes years, with negative impacts on children’s development, socialisation and experience of childhood.

⚠️ What remains clear is the families most at risk of homelessness are one-parent families. They must be a key part of the government’s new Child & Family Homelessness Action Plan, including:

1️⃣ Supporting their diverse housing needs of people parenting alone, sharing parenting and separating.
2️⃣ Funding to prevent families entering homelessness.
3️⃣ Funding to support families out of homelessness as soon as possible.

Celebrating this month and always
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"For anyone questioning whether there is only one 'right' way to build a family, I hope my story offers reassurance that love, commitment and community matter far more than convention ever will." - Maria Walsh

♥Great OpEd in TheJournal.ie over the weekend from MEP Maria Walsh about her journey to parenthood, the barriers facing parents who go it alone and that family is defined by love, care, choice and commitment.

✅Read the full article here: https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/ivf-donor-babies-7054238-May2026/

💫Job fairy
✅ We have 2 vacancies on the My Options team
📅Closing date is 12pm, Thursday 11th June
✅Full job ad here: onefamily.ie/vacancies-and-volunteering/

💭For some women, an abortion can create mixed emotions.

⚡The Repeal anniversary can be a challenging or triggering time, especially for women who had an abortion before it was legal and weren't able to get support previously.

🫶One Family are here to help. We offer a safe, confidential, non-judgmental space to process any feelings you might have.

📱Our service is free and is operated by professional and accredited counsellors, with appointments in-person or online. You can book an appointment at our link in bio.

🌍Today is International Day Of The Family United Nations Human Rights.

⚡It's an important celebration of families, in all their diversity and an opportunity to bring awareness to inequalities experienced by some families.

💚We're deeply proud of all the families we work with at One Family and the many more that we represent through our lobbying and advocacy work.

❗In Ireland, too many one-parent families are limited in the choices they can make about their lives, because of:

💶Poverty and deprivation
🏠 Lack of housing or suitable housing to accomodate their needs
👨‍⚖️A family courts system that too often, causes harm
⚠ Unequal access to education or high-paid employment, which prevents poverty

We can for one-parent families. But we need everybody - government, society, you - to support it.

✅Sign up to our mailing list at our link in bio and be the first to know about our latest activities: https://onefamily.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=7f020306f44ac76bc1960851f&id=68975d923e

Thank you for the support Labour Party ♥

https://labour.ie/news/2026/05/13/essential-that-new-futures-employability-programme-receives-govt-support-odea/