News & Media

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...

The Oberstown year in review

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As we prepare our final Oberstown newsletter of the year, it is an apt time to reflect on the huge amount of positive achievements, and indeed events, that took place in Oberstown during 2018. Kicking off the year on a healthy note, in January, staff participated in...

Oberstown wins top health & safety award

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Oberstown has been awarded an Enterprise Risk Network Recognition Award, presented by the State Claims Agency (SCA) at a ceremony on November 8. The health & safety team in Oberstown were finalists in two areas and on the night won the overall award for NIMS...

Oberstown publishes first annual report for new Campus

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Oberstown Children Detention Campus has today published its annual report for 2016/2017. This is the first report of the Board of Management for the new Campus and covers an 18-month period from 1 June 2016 to 31 December 2017. The new Campus was established under the...

Summer school in Oberstown builds relationships, teaches skills

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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’

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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...