Welcome to HopeSpace

We support children and young people who are struggling
with the loss of someone they love.


Proud Charity Partner
of Connacht Rugby

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What do we do at HopeSpace?

We provide a free one-to-one support service for grieving children and young people who are struggling with the loss of a loved one. A team of trained volunteers help children and young people to address their emotions around grief, to understand that grief is a normal reaction to loss and that their emotions are normal.

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How does our service help?

  • Provides a critical early intervention service

  • Helps children to express emotions around grief

  • Improves coping skills and self-esteem

  • Facilitates positive parent-child relationships

  • Encourages parent-child communication

  • Reduces parental stress and worry

  • 1. Get in touch

    Call us on 091 342566/087 466 7506 or email support@hopespace.ie or use the contact form on this website

  • 2. Schedule a confidential chat with the HopeSpace team

  • 3. We will meet you in HopeSpace and explain how the service works

Where you can find us

HopeSpace
SCCUL Enterprise Centre,
Castlepark Road,
Ballybane,
Galway
H91 RH32

 
Nothing that grieves us can be called little; by the external laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.
— Mark Twain

Useful Resources

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The First Steps in Talking to Children About Grief

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Supporting a child at the time of a death

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Going back to school

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Books on childhood bereavement

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