What is the Diamond Project?
Diamond is a youth justice project in the North Inner-City of Dublin.
Diamond is a community and multi-agency approach.
Diamond values community involvement and relationship building.
Diamond is guided by Restorative Practice, strengths-based and collaborative approaches.
Diamond offers therapeutic support for the young person and their family.
What do we do?
We develop a multi-agency team around the young person and their family.
We work alongside other community supports to begin to rebuild supportive relationships, ensure that the young person’s needs are being met within their community, empower them to take more responsibility for their choices and create positive opportunities going forward.
How do we work?
We use a Restorative Practice approach. The focus is to build, maintain and repair relationships. Central to this approach is to support and work with the young person rather than doing things for them. Therapeutic intervention with the young person and family also values collaboration and relationship-building.
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Who is our target group?
We work with young people 12-24 year olds, who have come to the attention of the criminal justice system.
Where are we located? And what catchment area?
We are based at Belvedere Youth Club, 41 Lower Buckingham St., Dublin 1. We work with young people in Dublin’s North Inner City.
How does Diamond work alongside other agencies?
We work in partnership with other statutory and community projects, to create a team around the young person. This is to ensure that all the agencies involved, particularly positive relationships that are already developed, can work together to best support the young person’s needs.
Who is in the Diamond Team?
- Jenny Courtney – Belvedere Youth Club CEO
- Bridie Flood – Diamond Senior Project Worker
- Dwyane Horace – Diamond Senior Project Worker
- Siobhán Brennan –Diamond Family Therapist
