Our Residential Weekend will be starting back up now in September, for the 2025/26 school year.

We provide two residential weekends a month during the school academic year in counties Donegal and Cavan.

Places are offered to six young people, plus an emergency bed when required, to the young people referred into our service through Tusla social work teams. In addition, places can be offered to individual young people who are referred into our service through the PPFS Meitheal, and also UBU (You be you). This is an initiative funded by the DYCA (Department of Children & Youth Affairs).

We are so delighted to have been slected as a county finalist for the National Lottery Good Cause Awards 2025 under the Youth Category. This is an award that aims to celebrate and honour the work carried out by people and organisations in communities right throughout Ireland for work they carry out that has a real and meaningful impact on the communities and causes that they so selflessly support.

In the HYLS we strive to do all we can to support families and young people in our communities and aim to provide stability, security and a safe non-judgemental space where people can be themselves, explore their potential and have fun while doing all the above and to be acknowledged for our efforts with this award is a real honour which we don’t take for granted. Thank you so much to the National Lottery for this acknowledgement.

Camping Trip

Here at The Home Youth Liaison Service, we run an annual camping trip, in which we bring away approximately 16 young people for 1 – 2 nights. We go to a suitable location that can accommodate the group and provide activities also. This is a great opportunity for young people to get away from home for a few days and be outside in nature. It is a great way for them to make new friends and experience everything that camping has to offer. They get a mixture of land and water activities which they really seem to enjoy.

This year brought us to Westport House, which was an amazing venue for the camping trip. There was loads to do for the young people between Westport Adventure, enjoying the scenery and the local area. They had fun pitching their tents, making smores and eating burgers off the BBQ. We are delighted to have had another enjoyable camping trip this year and roll on 2026!