News & Media

Shaping Lives, Building Futures: Oberstown is recruiting

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‘Shaping Lives, Building Futures’ March 27, 2019 – Oberstown Children Detention Campus is seeking to recruit 25 residential social care workers to provide the best possible care to young people in detention. The recruitment drive is the first large-scale...

Starting the conversation: ‘How r u?’

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Oberstown has launched its mental health & well-being booklet. The launch of the booklet and a poster campaign asking ‘How r u?’  is part of a month-long series of events on the campus to encourage awareness around positive mental health for staff. The...

Oberstown in the news

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Oberstown featured in a number of news articles during December 2018. An article in the Irish Times focused on the services available to young people in Oberstown, such as mental health and addiction services and programmes including a teen parenting and sex education...

Shaping lives, building futures

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The annual Oberstown Christmas recruitment campaign has kicked off with a brand new advert that asks people to come and work with us to make a difference in a young person’s life. The campaign’s slogan, Shaping Lives, Building Futures, reflects the Oberstown...

Oberstown art work on display

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Young people in Oberstown are constantly making, doing, producing: arts, crafts, textiles, food, even books. While staff in Oberstown get to glimpse the talents of these young people on a  daily basis, the outside world does not. That’s why we have begun...