Latest Publications

How Are Our Families?
January saw the publication of CDI’s How Are Our Families? Report
This report updates our understanding and information on families in the community of Tallaght West and particularly the risk and protective factors associated with children’s wellbeing. The research focused on extensive child and family demographic information and well-being indicators in order to provide a holistic picture of children’s, young people’s, and family’s lives.

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Welcome to CDI
The Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) began as a planning initiative in 2003 to support better outcomes for children in Tallaght West. A consortium of 23 members representing community leaders, residents and professionals living and working in Tallaght West developed the outcomes-focused 10-year strategy ‘A Place for Children’. Based on this long-term strategy, a detailed implementation was agreed for 2007-2011, against which a major investment of €15 million euro was made, co-funded by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, through the Prevention and Early Intervention Fund, and The Atlantic Philanthropies.

Our Mission
We who live and work in Tallaght West have high expectations for all children living in our communities. We want our children to love who they are and to be cherished irrespective of social background, cultural differences and country of origin. We see every child and every family being provided with support, opportunities and choices to meet these expectations. We see the whole community owning responsibility for the quality, beauty and safety of the local environment. We see children encouraged and cherished by the whole community.

Quality Services, Better Outcomes Workbook:
‘Quality Services, Better Outcomes’ provides a practical resource for frontline staff, service managers and organisations that are currently implementing or intend to implement, evidence-based programmes and services for children and/or their families, drawing on research examples of best practice.

“I believe this workbook will offer a practical and user friendly support to services and organisations working with children and families and so ultimately enhance quality delivery and improved outcomes. As such, it complements and facilitates our Programme for Government, and the commitment of this Government and Department to addressing the needs of our children, our future”. Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Ms. Frances Fitzgerald, TD