Five Rivers Fostering Ireland

Ireland’s first independent fostering agency. We have been established since 2002. Our role is to provide vulnerable children with a high standard of care within a family setting.

Our foster families are committed to providing children and young people with a high standard of care. We provide our foster families with training and a high level of support. This helps families to understand and deal with the challenges which fostering brings.

We work in partnership with the HSE, birth parents and other people who are involved in children / young people’s lives. Five Rivers Ireland’s main objective is to be a leading provider of high quality foster care services. Our philosophy is to provide as normal an environment as possible for children and young people who cannot live with their own families.

We recognise that each young person is unique and has individual talents and qualities as well as difficulties and problems that are unique to them. We aim to tailor each placement to suit the needs of the child or young person being placed. Five Rivers Ireland operates an anti-discriminatory policy and aims to recognise the culture and values of young people, carers and staff.

Services Offered:

Five Rivers Ireland provides foster families for children and young people in need of placements. Five Rivers Ireland provides intensive support to all of our carers. This includes weekly support visits and access to 24 hour on-call services. Five Rivers Ireland will accept referrals from all community care areas. At present there are children placed from four community care areas. Two of these are based in the South Western Area region. Five Rivers Ireland has also completed some assessment work for a Local Authority in the UK. Under the umbrella of foster care there are a range of services available.

These include the following:

• Long-term Foster Care
• Short-term Foster Care
• Emergency Foster Care
• Parent and child placements
• Preparation for return home and after care support
• Specific assessment and support work
• Priority access to Five Rivers services and resources in UK.
• Relative carer assessment / support.

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