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Donegal has a range of support services that are literacy aware and literacy friendly.
See below for details of some of these services.
Donegal ETB Further Education and Training (FET) Services
Donegal ETB Further Education and Training (FET) Services
There are nineteen FET Centres across the county.
Click here to learn more about each one.
Literacy Awareness Training is available for frontline staff. It's a free, 1.5hour session and can be organised through contacting Donegal ETB's Regional Literacy Coordinator, Adele McElhinney, on 0860849284 or adelemelhinney@donegaletb.ie.
Financial Support: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS)
Financial Support: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS)
MABS offer impartial advice to help people manage money and take control of debt. They offer support online, over the phone and face to face. There are 3 MABS offices in Donegal; Letterkenny, Donegal Town and Derrybeg.
Click here for contact details.
Citizen's Information Services
Citizen's Information Services
There are 9 places where you can access Citizen's Advice across Donegal:
Buncrana, Carndonagh, Donegal Town, Bundoran, Dungloe, Letterkenny, Milford, Downings and Dunfanaghy.
Click here for opening times and contact details.
Family Resource Centres (FRC)
Family Resource Centres (FRC)
There are 10 Family Resource Centres across Co. Donegal that offer information, support, guidance, counselling and personal development. They support families and communities.
Look at this list to see where they are, or click here to find out more information about each one.
Donegal Parent and Family Support Services
Donegal Parent and Family Support Services
DPFSS improves lives through family led, home based supports. Delivering strengths-based programme interventions to children and families in need. Providing information, support and signposting to parents and children on a 1:1 or group basis. Click here to learn more and get contact details.
Donegal Co. Council Library Services
Donegal Co. Council Library Services
There are currently 13 library branches across Donegal that offer a range of services;
Central (Letterkenny), Milford, Buncrana, Carndonagh, Moville, Twin Towns (Stranorlar), Lifford, Raphoe, Gaoth Dobhair, na Rosann, Bundoran, Ballyshannon and Donegal Town.
Watch the video to see what you can do in your local library. Click here for opening hours and contact details.
Healthy Ireland - Healthy Donegal
Healthy Ireland - Healthy Donegal
A Healthy Ireland, where everyone can enjoy physical and mental health and wellbeing to their full potential. Where wellbeing is valued and supported at every level of society and is everyone’s responsibility. Eat well, think well, be well.
Check out their Facebook page here.
Donegal County Childcare Committee
Donegal County Childcare Committee
Working for the development, sustainability and advancement of high quality childcare and education in County Donegal. Click here for contact details and more information.
Donegal Intercultural Platform
Donegal Intercultural Platform
Donegal Intercultural Platform are committed to building inclusion and equality in Donegal, promoting human rights and challenging discrimination and racism. Click here for more information.
Donegal ETB's Community Education Support Programme
Donegal ETB's Community Education Support Programme
The Community Education Support Programme supports the delivery of adult education courses in the community through the provision of funding for tuition costs and support in the setting up of courses. The programme hopes to encourage adults with few/no qualifications to take part in educational activities, in order to build their confidence as individuals and to help in the development of their community. Click here for more information and contact details.
Donegal Volunteer Centre
Donegal Volunteer Centre
Donegal Volunteer Centre is a service that matches up people thinking about volunteering, with non-profit organisations who are looking for new volunteers. Click here for contact details and more information.
Inishowen Development Partnership (IDP)
Inishowen Development Partnership (IDP)
IDP is community-led local development company, to support communities, families, and businesses in the Inishowen Peninsula, across over 20 programmes.
Facilitated through a partnership structure that is firmly committed to the principles of equality and social inclusion, IDP’s role is to promote, support, assist and engage in community and social development using a community led local development approach. IDP promotes the enabling of individuals and their communities to tackle unemployment and issues of social and economic disadvantage through an integrated process of education and action. We aim to provide opportunities for those living in Inishowen to participate in all aspects of cultural, educational, health, social and economic opportunities. Our vision is “To be an innovative community leader for Inishowen empowering its people, promoting our place, and advocating for progress”. Click here to read more
Click here to learn more.
Donegal Local Development Company
Donegal Local Development Company
DLDC work to improve the opportunities for people and communities in County Donegal, to bring about positive changes in their own lives and in their community. Offering a range of programmes and services to support individuals, local organisations, groups and communities. Supporting people looking for work, students, people starting their own business, children and families, young people, older people, parents and guardians. They serve as a bridge between local community, the state and the private sector. Read more about them here.
North West Regional Skills Forum
North West Regional Skills Forum
The North West Regional Skills Forum supports businesses in its region to assess and develop skills for their employees. The Forum also brings people together at local and regional level, to identify, investigate and validate skills needs. For more information and contact details, click here.
Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) Coordinators
Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) Coordinators
Under the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) programme, the Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) scheme seeks to promote partnership between parents, teachers and community family support services.
A HSCL Coordinator is a teacher from a participating school/s who is released from teaching duties in order to work intensively with and support parents/guardians. The overarching goal of the HSCL Coordinator is to improve educational outcomes for children through their work with the key adults in the child’s life.
Read more about them here.
Find details of HSCLs across Donegal here or use the interactive map below.
Department of Social Protection (DSP)
Department of Social Protection (DSP)
The Department of Social Protection is a department of the Government of Ireland, tasked with administering Ireland's social welfare system. It oversees the provision of income support and other social services. For contact details, click here.
Donegal Adult Learner Guidance Service
Donegal Adult Learner Guidance Service
Donegal ETB's Adult Guidance and Information Service offers impartial and confidential information, advice, guidance and counselling on the educational options that are available both within Donegal ETB and with other education providers. The aim of the service is to support people to make the right decisions about returning to education and training and to help people to make those decisions within the context of their wider life.
You can send them a message here and they will give you a call.
Donegal Travellers Project
Donegal Travellers Project
Donegal Travellers Project is a community-based partnership of Travellers, Roma and members of the wider community working for justice, equality and human rights for Travellers, Roma and for other ethnic minority communities. Click here for their contact details.
National Learning Network
National Learning Network
At the National Learning Network Centre in Letterkenny, they provide a range of free courses to people who have had an accident, illness, injury or have a disability and extra support needs. Their courses are tailored to each student’s needs, to help them to build their confidence while getting practical job-seeking skills to help get a job or go on to further training.
Click here for more information on courses they offer and for contact details.
Muintearas Thír Conaill
Muintearas Thír Conaill
The aims of Muintearas can be described in many different ways, but all of them are focused on people. To achieve equal opportunities in terms of education and employment for people in the Gaeltacht; to provide personal development opportunities for men and women; to improve the quality of life for those who experience disadvantage; to facilitate full participation of parents in the education of their children; to support the use of the Irish language in all aspects of community life in the Gaeltacht, on the basis of justice and basic rights; to raise awareness in state agencies etc. for the special needs of the Gaeltacht; and to generally function as a facilitator for the Gaeltacht community, to help them to reach their full potential in economic, social, cultural and linguistic terms.
You can email tirchonaill@muintearas.com or phone 074 9532578 to find out more about Muintearas in Donegal.
Donegal Social Prescribing
Donegal Social Prescribing
Social prescribing is about supporting the health and wellbeing of people by using community based activities and supports such as exercise, art, reading and gardening.
The Social Prescribing Coordinator will talk to you about what activities interest you, the benefits of participating in them and will assist and support you in attending them.
The programme is for anyone who feels they need support in minding their health and wellbeing, or for anyone feeling isolated, isolated, anxious or depressed.
See the list of local Social Prescribing Coordinators below or check our their Facebook page here.
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