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Summer school in Oberstown builds relationships, teaches skills

Summertime in Oberstown can be a particularly difficult time for young people. School is out and young people want to be out and about. That’s where the Oberstown activities team comes in. Their job is to keep up to 50 teenagers occupied and happy during those long...

‘It takes a village to raise a child in detention’

An article by Chair of the Board Ursula Kilkelly, in the Irish Times in July 2018, outlines the need for Oberstown to work with community organisations to share knowledge, to increase awareness of the challenges faced by young people in detention and to foster greater...

‘Oberstown featured on RTE Morning Ireland’

Oberstown Deputy Director (Care Services) Lena Timoney was interviewed on Morning Ireland on Thursday morning, 14th June, about research into Key Characteristics of young people in detention in 2018, and previewed the stakeholder event on mental health and substance...