Tel: 098 24419
Email: westportfrc@gmail.com
Web: http://www.westportfrc.ie/
Core Staff
Role: Project Coordinator
Name: Leanne Barrett
Role: Community Development Worker
Name: John Doherty
Role: Project Administrator
Name: Linda Mc Nulty
Core Activities
- Advice Centre
- Adult & Adolescent Counselling
- Play Therapy
- Quay Community Garden
- Quay Youth Programme
- After School Club
- Befriending Telephone Service
- Care & Repair Service for Older People
- One to One IT classes for over 55's
- Supporting Outreach Groups
- English Classes for migrants
- Active member of Western Region LGBT network
About Us
Westport Family & Community Resource CentreWestport FCRC strives to help build a stronger, healthier community within Westport that is all-embracing, enriching, safe and sustainable. We work under a combined model of community development and family support and our actions are guided by the 5 National Outcomes for children and young people.
- Drop-in service, offering information, advice & support
- Family support- working with young people, parents, families
- Quay Community Garden
- Quay Youth Programme/ Summer Programme
- After School Club for children
- Facilitation of an At-Risk Teens Group
- Befriending telephone service for older people
- Cara Visitation Service for older/ vulnerable people
- Care & Repair Service for older people
- One-to-one I.T classes for over 55s
- Low cost Counselling Service
- Adult counselling
- Adolescent counselling
- Mental Health Programmes delivered in schools
- Awareness raising and highlighting of mental health & wellbeing
- Delivery of a personal development programme to 1st year students
- Facilitate community groups/ activities at the Centre
- Supporting community groups
- Facilitate outreach services/ clinics at the Centre
- Facilitate third level student placements
- Fáilte Isteach conversational English classes for the migrant community
- Active member of the Western Region LGBT Network- raising awareness of LGBT issues
- Active member of the Western Region Domestic Violence Network- raising awareness of violence against women
- Representing body on sub groups of the Children & Young People’s Services Committee and the Child & Family Services Network