Our Supporters
SWAN Youth Service launched it’s latest Strategic Plan on Friday 30th April 2021. We were delighted that the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’ Gorman launched the plan through pre-recorded video link. The plan sets out our goals and direction for the coming three years. Thanks to all the young people, Board of Management, staff, community members and Funders who contributed to the development of the plan.
Feel free to download the Strategic Plan 2021 – 2023 here

Our Services
Community Employment Programme
The Community Employment (CE) programme is designed to help people who are long-term unemployed (or otherwise disadvantaged) to get back to work by offering part-time and temporary placements in jobs based within local communities. Participants can take up other part-time work during their placement. After the placement, participants are encouraged to look for permanent jobs elsewhere, based on the experience and new skills they have gained while on a Community Employment scheme.
The Community Employment programme is administered by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP). The DEASP gives financial support in the form of allowances and funding to assist with the Community Employment programme, for example, participant wages, supervisor grants, materials grants and specific skills training grants. Community Employment sponsors are the voluntary organisations or public bodies that manage CE schemes at a local level.
Detailed information is available in the Community Employment procedures manual.
To check your eligibility click here.
For available CE Schemes please email here.
Office Hours
9:00 – 17:00
Lunch
13:00 – 14:00
News Articles
Pioneering Career LEAP training programme gets young adults work-ready
Over 90% of at-risk young adults who participated in an innovative education programme developed by education experts in Trinity remain in full-time employment or in formal education, according to the findings of a study launched last week at an event in the Central...
SWAN YOUTH SERVICE’S YOUTH CAFÉ
SWAN Youth Service hosted a Youth Café event on the 25 April in St Agatha’s Hall. 30 young people from a number of youth clubs based in the NEIC area participated in the event which was facilitated by Community Action Network (CAN). The workshop focused on how the...
Helping unemployed adults in Dublin’s North Inner City transition to employment
Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, Paschal Donohoe TD, launched a research report on ‘Career LEAP’ a pioneering programme to help young unemployed adults in Dublin’s North Inner City transition to employment last week [November 9th]. Minister...