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My first photo in an exhibition 🙌
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This was part of the @epicireland #CareDay23 events 🥰 – at Dublin City, Ireland
Clara O'Shea-Collins #CEP retweeted
Really great meeting of the Care Experienced Expert Panel in the Department today! Great to meet with @RobbieGilligan and the 10 years on from care study team to hear interviewing has begun. Imp to input on interview approach and further brainstorm how to reach care leavers!
Clara O'Shea-Collins #CEP retweeted
EPIC's Communications Manager, Caroline, + Youth Council member, @emz6978, enjoyed a sneak preview of @tusla's Together We Grow Fostering Garden at @BordBiaBloom yesterday - we hope it plants many seeds + encourages people to foster💜
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👉🏾#RaisingAmazing
Clara O'Shea-Collins #CEP retweeted
Tusla foster carers have positively transformed the lives of vulnerable children and young people but more people are needed to provide foster placements. If you are visiting @BordBiaBloom and have an interest in fostering stop by our Together We Grow garden to speak to our team
Clara O'Shea-Collins #CEP retweeted
New episode from #storiesfromfostercare out now.... with foster carer Joise Corr and her foster son Thomas Monahan talking about their experiences, access it where ever you get your podcasts...... @epicireland @tusla @dcediy @OCSFostering @fosteringnet @Foster_Origins @nearfm
Clara O'Shea-Collins #CEP retweeted
“You matter, don’t give up, the stories we tell, they have the power to change people’s lives."
#CareAware
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🥹 all I ever wanted to do with @epicireland was to try and make things easier for the care leavers who came after me, seeing actual change in realtime makes it all the moreworth while! 🤯👏
Tune in @ 11:50 for @SimonHarrisTD's announcement of a 1.15m fund that includes accommodation supports for care-leavers, + about his "incredible meeting" with EPIC -🙌🏾@rorybrown23 + @SocialWorkClara who were central to this meeting!
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#ListenBack 📻
Clara O'Shea-Collins #CEP retweeted
#CareDay24 has landed at @tcddublin!
Embrace Our Stories, a photography exhibition by care-experienced children and young people, will be on display in the Trinity Arts Building (Entrance Level) until Friday the 16th February.
Thank you @SWSP_TCD @AccessTCD for hosting 👏
Clara O'Shea-Collins #CEP retweeted
New episode #stroiesfromfostercare with social worker Sola Mobolaji & family support worker Doris Abuchi-Ogbonda about how foster carers & others can support African children in care #fosteringconnections @dcediy
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So glad to have had @epicireland as a platform to share my personal experience to drive changes to the care system in Ireland ✨
Shout-out to our incredible Youth Council members, past+present, @rorybrown23 @SocialWorkClara @KaiRBrosnan who have been leading this work with the @DeptofFHed, and to @SimonHarrisTD who has been steadfast in his commitment to prioritising care-leavers in his mandate ❤️💜🧡💙
Clara O'Shea-Collins #CEP retweeted
Lovely to hear @SimonHarrisTD acknowledge the work of @epicireland with @DeptofFHed to prioritise care-leavers access to further education and training. Our past+present Youth Council members @rorybrown23 @SocialWorkClara + @KaiRBrosnan have been instrumental in this over 2 years
Spoke @tusla launch for #socialwork awareness week today before heading into @SWSP_TCD's advisory committee meeting. I couldn't attend the #childsummit with @dcediy but amazing to see so much work being done to promote positive outcomes for children and young people in one day!
Clara O'Shea-Collins #CEP retweeted
Today we launch Social Work Awareness Week celebrating social work and its important role in our communities. All week long industry leaders and front-line staff members will share their experiences and the positive differences that social workers can make in a child’s life.
So glad to have worked with you over the past five years @alan62812777 🤝 Here's to passing the torch to the younger council members at @epicireland
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Today, we marked @alan62812777's graduation from the Youth Council. Since 2018, Alan worked w/ EPIC to create a better future for children in care + care leavers. Thank you for all you contributed Al, to EPIC + beyond! You're one of the best #CareAware champs Ireland has 💜❤️🧡💙
Clara O'Shea-Collins #CEP retweeted
Quite shocking information to read as a care leavers. To see that 3 in 10 care leavers don't even finish their education in Ireland shows the failings of @Education_Ire and how the system needs to change to stop care leavers falling through the cracks.
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