Doras Buí is a community development Resource Centre & Early Years’ Service that provides high quality support and programmes to one parent families living in the North-East Dublin area. We are committed to the delivery of an excellent early year services in a safe and inclusive environment where children and families are facilitated to reach their full potential. We aim to support lone parents to extend their life choices, overcome discrimination and isolation and become socially and economically independent
Description of Doras Buí
Founded in 1986, Doras Buí is legally constituted as a company limited by guarantee with charitable status. It is run and managed primarily by lone parents.
Doras Bui’s catchment area is contiguous with the Dublin City Council Dublin North Central Administrative area. Supports are targeted at the most disadvantaged areas within the catchment as identified in the Pobal HP Deprivation Index (Haase and Pratschike 2016)
Doras Bui puts into practice a provision of drop-in information, support, and guidance service to lone parents. We provide a service specific to teen parents to support them to stay or return to education. A suite of creative and supportive courses and activities on subjects identified by lone parents, a child counselling service/adult counselling service and a full-time early year’s centre are also part of a comprehensive cradle to grave services we provide.
MISSION
Doras Buí is a community development Resource Centre & Early Years’ Service that provides high quality supports and programmes to one parent families living in the North-East Dublin area. We are committed to the delivery of an excellent early year’s services in a safe and inclusive environment where children and families are facilitated to reach their full potential. We aim to support lone parents to extend their life choices, overcome discrimination and isolation and become socially and economically independent.
OBJECTIVE
To bring lone parents together in the catchment area of the organization and support them in jointly identifying their own needs & tackling their own problems.
To highlight policy needs and issues of lone parent families to policymakers and local statutory agencies.
To promote the development, co-ordination and integration of services and facilities for lone parent families and early years services.
To collaborate with local community and statutory partners in the development, co-ordination and integrating of services and facilities for lone parent families
To promote rights-based approaches to the provision of services to lone parent families.
To collaborate with local community and statutory partners to improve health and well-being of the community as a whole
Doras Buí campaigns for policy and attitudinal change in favour of lone parent families. This process, requiring experimentation and innovation, has led to a self-help model of provision that encourages lone parents to access information and to develop confidence and independence and move on in their lives. The values underpin Doras Buí approach to Community Development, advantaged thinking which include those of respect, dialogue and the promotion of an ethic of service.
