Community Services

Trustus provide a range of welfare and care in the community including services to the elderly and disabled across South County Dublin.

Through a range of services and ongoing projects we aim to provide care, equality, education and support to anyone in our local area. Sometimes we’re seen as an organisation for the elderly or disabled but our services reach beyond that to services for the young, disadvantaged, unemployed or anyone who needs a little extra help. Some of our core services are outlined below.

Home Help/ Care Services
We provide home help services to a wide range of people who just need that little extra support such as the elderly or the disabled, we also work with organisations like Barnados, day care centres, schools and homeless hostels. The service is a help to anyone with special needs and especially helps older individuals carry on living at their own home. Core services include food preparation, light home cleaning, personal hygiene, shopping and respite for carers.

Senior Citizen Day Activity Centres
Through a number of centres trustus bring senior citizens a range of day care activities varying from the essentials of food, transport to appointments and citizens advice through to social and fun activities like bingo, arts and crafts, outings and functions. Support is provided, whichever way it is asked for or required, rather than forced on anyone. We also offer a number of additional support services to the elderly such as pendant alarm call systems and meals on wheels

Disability Network
The network is designed to create a supportive community of individuals with disabilities where they can meet and interact, organise and take part in activities or even support our work lobbying relevant bodies for greater awareness and support of disabled issues. We also have a specific program targeted at providing support outside of school hours to young people with disabilities and their families.

Community Employment
Now more than ever unemployment is a huge issue worldwide, and we are involved in a number of projects to help people overcome obstacles and get back into work. One area of particular success has been our involvement in ALMP training and development programs, which provide training and new skills development opportunities whilst also providing manpower for community and voluntary sector organisations.

Other works engages in includes network support, mediation, facilitation, lobbying, seminars and a wide range of ongoing projects which you can learn more about on our current projects page. Besides our direct involvement in the community we also support the work of doctors, nurses, social workers, hospitals, community welfare officers, the clergy, Garda, voluntary organisations, Red Cross, Gamblers Anonymous and Respond (mental health support group).

These are just a sample of a wide spectrum of services we offer to anyone in our community that requires help, advice or guidance; so whatever obstacles you may be facing, whatever you want to achieve and however much or little help you need to get contact us today, speak to one of our friendly team and see how we can help.

Over the last four decades our projects have included;
Citizens Information Centre (Tallaght)
West Tallaght Resource Centre
South Dublin County Volunteer Bureau (Tallaght Volunteer Bureau)
Tallaght Mediation Bureau
Saoirse Women’s Refuge (Tallaght and Clondalkin)
Money Advice and Budgeting (Tallaght)
Partas (formally Get Tallaght Working)
Tallaght Partnership
Tallaght Traveller Project
Tallaght Centre for the Unemployed
Tallaght Homeless Advice Unit

Current services and activities
Community Support Service (including new start-up services)
Home Help/Care Service
Day Services for Senior Citizens
Active Labour Market Programmes
Meals-on-Wheels
Pre-budget Submission Document
Facilitation and Mediation
OSSS for young people with a disability
Local area network support
Lobbying
Seminars
Awareness Raising on different issues
Annual Pre-budget Submission Document