Ms Annmarie Dunphy:

Women are afraid to access services because their children will be taken. A lot of it is the stigma that comes with it as well. Some of them are coming from domestic violence relationships. They are finding it very hard to trust people they do not know. That is where our peer outreach comes in. We are able to get to women who are afraid to speak out. We are able to be their voice. They have that trust in us to go back to Andy with the issue and set up advocacy cases that way, knowing they are not going to be reported to Tusla and their kids are not going to be taken, they are going to have the opportunity and chance to do what they have to do to keep their kids.