Child and Family Services
Safer Children, Stronger Families, Healthier Communities
Child and Family Services at Bessborough provide integrated community and residential services offering family support, social work and clinical psychology input to parents and children. Our ‘family preservation’ ethos aims to help parents and children remain safely together where possible and to reduce the volume of children removed into state care while promoting lifelong positive outcomes.
Parent and
Infant unit
Infant unit
The Lime Tree Project
Consultancy and Assessment
Parenting Groups
Marie O’Riordan
Child and Family Services Manager
Jonathan Horgan
Child and Family Services Manager
Maria O’Connell
Parenting Co-ordinator
Mairead O’Sulliivan
Infant Mental Health Practitioner and Counselling Psychologist in Training
Isobel De Búrca
Assistant Psychologist
Carol O’Halloran
Lead Family Development Practitioner
Susan MacConaill
Family Development Practitioner
Pamela Massey
Family Development Practitioner
Sheila Flanagan
Family Development Practitioner
Gary O’Brien
Family Development Practitioner
Elaine Spillane
Family Development Practitioner
Amanda Murphy
Family Development Practitioner
Nicole O’Connor
Family Development Practitioner
Lena McCarthy
Family Development Practitioner
Kemi Oti
Family Development Assistant
Margo Ahern
Family Development Assistant
Rebecca O’Sullivan
Family Development Practitioner
Obianuju Lilian Ibebugwu
Family Development Assistant