About Us

Area-Based Childhood Programme (ABC)

Our mission (in accordance with the national Area Based Childhood Programme): 

Through prevention and early intervention approaches, Grangegorman ABC aims to work in partnership with families, practitioners, communities, and national stakeholders to deliver better outcomes for children and families living in the Grangegorman area who are at risk of or experiencing poverty. 

Our objectives are to: 

• support children at critical stages of their development and wellbeing and through key
• transitions, with a particular focus on pre-birth to six years of age; 
• provide the highest quality, most appropriate evidence-informed/evidence-based interventions  and approaches to the communities we serve; 
• lessen the impact of intergenerational poverty and improve outcomes for children and families,  taking a progressive universal approach to addressing child poverty; 
• actively support and work in partnership with parents and guardians as the primary carers and  educators in their children’s lives; 
• enhance the provision of quality prevention and early intervention approaches by developing  workforce capacity (including education and training) across children’s services, and share the  learning and work to embed effective practices across all children’s services; 
• use monitoring and evaluation systems to inform our practice and measure impact; 
• inform relevant policy development at local and national levels where ABC areas are utilised to  test, evaluate and disseminate intervention processes and outcomes