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Mindfulness tips for stress awareness month standard

Mindfulness exercises can help to ground and calm, and help people to cope with stress. Ashdale Care’s Lucy McKenna offers some advice on using the STOP technique

Meet the team: Devon (Senior Practitioner programme) standard

Find out how Devon’s career brought her to work at Ashdale Care, and what she loves about her job

Meet Ashdale Care Residential Social Care Worker Lucy McKenna standard

Find out how Lucy became a Residential Social Care Worker for Ashdale Care, and what she loves about her job.

Meet the team: Home Manager Laura standard

Another in our series of Meet the Team blogs. Our people are our most valuable asset at Ashdale Care - this month meet Laura Ward, our newest Home Manager

Meet the team: HR Director Kelly Looker standard

It’s the people that make Ashdale Care such a special place, so we thought you should meet some of them! In this occasional series, we’ll find out more about an individual member of the Ashdale Care Community. This month we talk cakes, chickens and coffee with HR Director Kelly Looker and find out what her guilty pleasure is!

Cornell University’s CARE programme at Ashdale Care standard

Discover how Cornell University’s CARE programme helps Ashdale Care deliver the best therapeutic residential care for young people.

Reflective spaces at Ashdale Care standard

Looking after the staff who work at Ashdale Care is a core focus of the organisation. After all, you can’t pour from an empty cup, so keeping our staff cups full is vital in the care of our children and young people. One of the newest introductions to supporting our carers’ mental health and wellbeing are Reflective Spaces. Olivia McGrath, Clinical Service Manager, explains more: “During the first 90 minutes of a team meeting a member of the Clinical team will facilitate a Reflective Space. This is a protected time and space to explore situations that have come up for the team, specifically quite challenging situations and their emotional reaction to it. The aim is to further develop the skill ...

30 years of caring standard

Ashdale Care CEO Paula tells us how she fulfilled her vision of a very different kind of care home for children. The story of Ashdale Care Ireland began back in the 1990s, when Social Work student Paula Kane observed how traumatised children were placed in institutions and expected to conform, when they felt worthless and detached from society. As Paula went to work in the social care field she recalls...

A day in the life of an Ashdale Care Residential Social Care Worker standard

You’ve completed your social care degree, and completed a two-week induction for your placement at Ashdale Care. So what might your first working days look like?...

7 reasons why you should work at Ashdale Care standard

There’s a very special team working at Ashdale Care – and these are just some of the reasons why they love it here! 1. Positively transforming children’s lives Ashdale Care is the pioneer in residential care for children that have experienced trauma – we do things very differently, and our methods – offering children a place of safety in a familial home, along with therapeutic interventions – are incredibly effective. What better reward can there be than helping these children and young people to enjoy their childhood and go out into the world as confident young adults? 2. The Ashdale community Although there obviously have to be people in charge you’ll find the hierarchy at Ashdale Care is really relaxed ...