The Migrant Integration team has been established to support refugees and asylum seekers feel welcomed and integrated. Through a range of actions in the South Dublin area, our team assists the collectives in navigating Irish society. The team offers 1-2-1 support, while promoting advocacy through collaborative actions. Our mission is to make community services accessible to the migrant collective and diminish the barriers to their social inclusion. The team focuses on the issues of Physical and Mental Health/Well-Being, Education, Training Activities, Social Supports, Housing/Accommodation, Employment Support, as well as supports for Children and Families, and People living with a Disability and any other issues that may arise.
Who we are
Where to find us
Weekly Clinic schedule:
Tuesdays Drop-in Clinics – from 14:00 to 16:30 in Mountain Park (D24 TDK2)
Wednesdays Drop-in Clinics – from 14:00 to 16:30 in Clondalkin Intercultural Centre (D22 FX54)
Wednesday Roma Clinic – from 9:30 to 13:00 in Russell Building (D24 DH74)
Social Prescribing Link Worker
In addition to the services offered by the Migration Integration team, South Dublin County Partnership offers a Social Prescribing Link Worker – Migrant Community service to refugees, international protection applicants/asylum seekers and Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection, who arrived in Ireland within the past 3 years and live in South County Dublin.
Social Prescribing is a free service that supports people aged 18 years and over, to connect with their community with the purpose of improving their health and wellbeing and reducing feelings of loneliness and social isolation. The social prescribing link worker will support the person from the Migrant Community to find ways to make new social connections, join social activities or groups, and to access education, training, or parenting supports. Together, the social prescriber and client will explore ways to try to overcome barriers of language, transport, physical ill health, mental ill health, or disability, with the aim of accessing people and events in their local community and improving their health and wellbeing.
If you think that you would benefit from Social Prescribing, please click here to fill out a referral form.
Mountain Park and the Clondalkin Intercultural Centre
The centres are daytime hubs for refugee, asylum seeker and migrant communities living in South County Dublin. including Tallaght, Clondalkin and Citywest.
They both offer conversational English language classes, in addition to regular ESOL classes – catering to the English language training needs of almost 40 students each day. The centres also run several weekly drop-in, advice and support clinics for refugees and asylum seekers.
English Language Support Includes
- Free English one-to-one/group Language Lessons
- Literacy Support
- English Language Assessment Service
- ESOL Language Programme
Carmen Paredes: 087 0961490 (Clondalkin)
Mary Dillon: 0873336208 (Tallaght)
Team Information
Our multicultural team is made up of 6 people coming from different parts of the world. We can assist clients in a range of languages including:
- English
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Spanish
- Chinese
- Italian
- Polish
- Romanian
