Some slides on the @reppp4 #GreentownProgramme presented by our exceptional programme managers from the two trial sites about the realities of working w children & families in the context of multiple stressors within the home, often compounded by #drugdebt & intimidation.

Research Evidence Policy Programmes and Practice Department of Justice 🇮🇪 HEA UL School of Law Centre for Crime, Justice & Victim Studies (CCJVS) Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences @UL Professor Kerstin Mey UL Research What an honour! Research Evidence Policy Programmes and Practice's innovative #GreentownProgramme , seeks to help kids involved in #criminalnetworks to exit them safely & access opportunities.
We won a HEA impact award!! Our partners include Department of Justice 🇮🇪, @Tusla, @Probation, @Gardainfo
& amazing local projects.

This new legislation is very welcome and we hope it will have a real impact in disrupting the criminal exploitation of young people by criminal networks. Research Evidence Policy Programmes and Practice Helen McEntee TD James Browne TD #GreentownProgramme

We are delighted with the passage of this legislation
The exploitation of children for criminal gain is now a criminal offence.
The legislation will assist with #NetworkDistruption #GreentownProgramme , which aims to reduce the influence of #CriminalNetworks on local children.

If you are in #Limerick next week and would like to hear about the implementation of #GreentownProgramme a targeted multi-faceted intervention for children caught up in crime networks.
See below for more info on a sessionby colleague Jane Mulcahy PhD (she/her)

Sean Redmond @campus_engage

This award is a fantastic recognition by HEA of the University Of Limerick Department of Justice 🇮🇪 partnership to develop and implement the #GreentownProgramme Sean Redmond & Research Evidence Policy Programmes and Practice team worked closely with An Garda Síochána Probation Service Tusla - Child and Family Agency but esp #communitypartners to give hope & change lives

Jane Mulcahy PhD (she/her) presentation and panel discussion on #GreentownProgramme during #ULResearchWeek is in the link below

We are delighted that Jane Mulcahy PhD (she/her) UL School of Law Centre for Crime, Justice & Victim Studies (CCJVS) will present on the Department of Justice 🇮🇪 funded #GreentownProgramme during UL Research #ResearchWeek next Wednesday the 26th at 12pm.

Register for free for the live event in @UL

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2. @JamesBrown spoke about our #GreentownProgramme as

'another significant tool with which we can tackle the difficult, and often seemingly intractable, problem of the involvement of children in crime'

@campus_engage UL Research UL School of Law Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences @UL