A group of young practitioners hosts this episode from Cabra for Youth in Dublin: Charlie, Sophie, Jasmine, April and Briana, and you will also hear their project Leader Mary Carol. They talk about RP in the Youth Service and the training they have undertaken. 

For more information about Cabra for Youth: https://cabraforyouth.ie/

In this episode, Brian McManus, Youth Work Manager in Clare Youth Service, Adriona Meere, youth justice worker in Kilrush and a young person she works with, talk about their work and experience and what RP bring to the core relational element of youth work. An exciting project is also presented: the steps undertaken by Kilrush toward becoming a Restorative town. 

For more information: http://www.clareyouthservice.org/

In this episode, Joe Power, RP development Officer for Limerick and RP Quality Specialist with CDI, talks about his work, the training he delivers to teachers and youth workers, restorative parenting, and how RP is part of his day-to-day life as a father of 3.

For more information about Joe’s work and approach: http://www.restorativepracticeslimerick.ie/blog

In this episode, Kieran O’Dwyer, Restorative Practice Quality Specialist with the Childhood Development Initiative and Chairperson of Restorative Practices Ireland (RPI), talks about his broad experience of Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices, the work that RPI does and the goals and plans for the future of RP In Ireland.

For more information about RPI’s work: https://www.restorativepracticesireland.ie/

In this episode, Claire Casey, the Restorative Practice Programme Manager and George Best, the RP Programme Coordinator, talk about the implementation of RP in CDI as an organisation, what impact it had and what it means to work in a restorative organisation.

For more information about CDI’s work: https://www.cdi.ie/

This episode, the last of the season, is a collection of reflections and stories from participants in our previous episodes about how they are using Restorative Practices at home, the impact it has and the challenges it presents.

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In this episode Brian Hogan, campus deputy director of Oberstown Children Detention Campus,  Selenna Reilly young person programme manager, Oisin Dunne, Pauline Towey and Sam Maund, residential care workers, talk about their work, the implementation of Restorative Practices in the campus, its challenges, the way it impacts on their practices, on the young people under their care  and the vision they have for Oberstown in the future. 

In this episode, Claire Matthews, Principal of Firhouse Educate Together Secondary School who opened in August 2018 with a restorative ethos and vision, Andrew Moloney, Deputy Principal, Aisling O’Neill, Student Support Assistant, Carol Flynn, Secretary, Charlene Nolan, a 1st year student mother and three 2nd Year Students, Maïssa, Millie and Amy explain how the school community sees and lives the relationships between all its members and how everyone is supported to be their best self.

In this episode, Claire Matthews, Principal of Firhouse Educate Together Secondary School who opened in August 2018 with a restorative ethos and vision, Andrew Moloney, Deputy Principal, Aisling O’Neill, Student Support Assistant, Carol Flynn, Secretary, Charlene Nolan, a 1st year student mother and three 2nd Year Students, Maïssa, Millie and Amy explain how the restorative culture in the school was created and what tools help to maintain it. 

In this episode, John Madigan, a primary school teacher,  shares his personal and professional journey with RP, how they are embedded in his teaching role and what he recommends for schools who are interested in implementing them.