One Family award-winning employability programme 2025 now open for applications
One Family, Ireland’s national organisation for one-parent families, has been running a suite of specialist employability courses and programmes aimed at lone parents in Ireland for over 15 years. Its award-winning employability programme, which was twice recognised in the AONTAS STAR Awards for excellence in adult and community education is open to new applications for 2025 dates.
New Futures, an innovative employability programme run by One Family Programmes Service , has an average 75% participant progression rate to education and employment after course completion. The programme itself is but one of the ways in which we empower parents to progress personally and professionally. Parents often tell us that they don’t feel the challenges they face are understood in society – until they come to One Family. We are passionate about empowering and supporting lone parents to reach their education and employment goals.
‘Our New Futures employability programme is such a success because we understand the unique challenges that lone parents can face when considering a return to education and employment. As a trusted and specialised service, this bridging programme has been designed by us to take account of the parenting responsibilities lone parents have, to support them in learning new skills and build the confidence they need to progress towards secure, well-paid employment opportunities.’
— Valerie Maher, Programmes Manager, One Family
We were delighted that our New Futures Employability Programme again won the Aontas STAR award for projects funded by the European Social Fund in 2023, having previously won the same in 2019.
We are currently recruiting for our next programmes commencing February 2025, when the New Futures Employability Programme will be available as an online self-paced programme or through live delivery of online classes, two mornings per week. We will also provide in-person classes at a location in Dublin city centre from September 2025. Parents interested in participating in the programmes starting in February 2025 can contact Niamh by e-mailing: programmes@onefamily.ie.
Read what former participants have to say about their experience on this course:
