Crosscare..Innovation & Action for Social Change

History

Founded in 1941 to tackle the dreadful poverty in Dublin in the war years, the Catholic Social Services Conference as it was then called, set up its famed food centres providing nourishing meals for those who were hungry, while the clothing department provided those in need with new clothes.

The growth in Crosscare’s services emerged as the needs and concept of poverty changed in the Archdiocese over the following sixty-four years. However the central remit of this social care agency has always been to address and redress poverty, marginalisation and social exclusion in Dublin.

These days Crosscare works to address the poverty of exclusion among Travellers, the poverty of loneliness among full-time carers, the poverty which can befall early school leavers or immigrants due to lack of training and job opportunities, the poverty cycle which drugs can create, the increased homelessness stemming from the accommodation crisis in our city.

11 programmes currently operate within this umbrella organisation.

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The Red House Clonliffe College Dublin 3 Ireland Tel: 01 836 0011 Fax: 01 836 7166
Email: info@crosscare.ie