Tusla Donegal has officially opened their new office accommodation at Scally Place, Justice Walsh Road, Letterkenny.
This new office accommodation caters for Tusla’s duty intake service and children in care support team and its Letterkenny child protection area team, as well as the Donegal Children and Young People’s Services Committee (CYPSC) and the cross border MACE (multiple adverse childhood experience) project. In addition to offices for staff, the building also has meeting rooms, interview rooms and conference room facilities as well as a state of the art family access room.
To mark the occasion, Tusla hosted an official opening event on Monday, attended by 100 guests, including representatives from An Garda Síochána, Foroige, The Loft Youth Project and Donegal Children and Young People’s Services Committee.
Aisling Gillen Regional Service Director Tusla with Foroige and The Loft represenatives today as Tusla Donegal held an official opening of their new office accommodation at Scally Place, Justice Walsh Road, Letterkenny. Photo Clive Wasson
Pictured at the opening are Doengal Youth Voices Foroige represenatives Bonnie donnell, Katlyn McGarrigle, Sorcha Daly, Joe Warknock, Conor Maloney, Karl Duncan and jamie Kelly. Photo Clive Wasson
Pictured are The Loft Group Artcamp seated from left are Derry Griffin, Whitney Ramsaran, Taylor Loughlin, Lara McLaughlin and Abbey Mulligan. Back from left are Frankie McGreevy, Michael Campbell, Jimmy McKinney, Aisling Gillen Regional Service Director Tusla, Gerry Hone, Area Manager, Tusla and Emlyn Hughs, Principal Socila Worker. Photo Clive Wasson
Young people from the Donegal Youth Voices group (run by Foroige) and the LOFT Youth Project (managed by Foroige and the Donegal Youth Service) presented their art work, completed specially for the building. The Donegal youth voices group was used as a consultation group, with the young people in the design of the premises. Their work on this project has led to an application being submitted for an investing in children award, which the group hopes will be successful.
Commenting at the opening, Gerry Hone, Area Manager, Tusla, said: “We are delighted to officially mark the opening of our offices here at Scally Place today, and to have representatives from community organisations here with us to do so. We are committed to continuing our work with the children and families of Donegal, and are delighted to be doing so from such a modern and welcoming location.
“The opening of this facility in Letterkenny in such a central location indicates Tusla’s strong commitment to making our services more accessible and keeping the needs of children, young people and families at the centre of what we do.”
Pictured are guests at the opening Nora Roarty, Eoin Waters, Shanagh Barr, Fiontán Ó Caoláin, Siobhan Monaghan and Bonnie McGilloway. Photo Clive Wasson
Aisling Gillen Regional Service Director Tusla Photo Clive Wasson
Gerry Hone, Area Manager, Tusla Photo Clive Wasson
Pictured are guests at the opening. Photo Clive Wasson
Pictured are The Loft Art Project Team with there canvases on the wall included are Derry Griffin, Whitney Ramsaran, Taylor Loughlin, Lara McLaughlin, Abbey Mulligan and Jimmy McKinney. Photo Clive Wasson
The central Child protection team at Tusla Donegal who held an official opening of their new office accommodation at Scally Place, Justice Walsh Road, Letterkenny. Photo Clive Wasson
Caroline O’Boyle, Anne Timoney Meehan, CYPSC and Susan McCauley, Cara House. Photo Clive Wasson
