Our Supporters

Start Strong has a growing number of Supporters. Our Supporters include both organisations and individuals from a range of areas, such as:

• Child advocacy organisations
• Family support groups
• Parent representative organisations
• Community groups
• Researchers
• Practitioners
• Early care and education settings
• Human rights organisations
• Other organisations interested in children’s rights.

We value their support as we work to advance high quality care and education as a right for all young children in Ireland. Please contact us if you or your organisation would like to become a Supporter.

The following organisations and individuals have agreed to be named on our website as Supporters of Start Strong. 

Organisations (in alphabetical order)

ABC Childcare (www.abc-childcare.ie)
Ballymun Whitehall Area Partnership (www.ballymun.org)
Barnardos (www.barnardos.ie)
Border Counties Childcare Network (www.bccn.ie)
Brigit’s Garden Children’s Centre (www.brigitsgarden.org)
Childcare Network Loch Garman (www.wexfordchildcarenetwork.com)
Childminding Ireland - National Childminding Association of Ireland (www.childminding.ie)
Children in Northern Ireland (www.ci-ni.org.uk)
Cork County Childcare Committee (www.corkchildcare.ie)
Cork Early Years Network (www.corkcitypartnership.ie)
Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC) (www.crec.co.uk
Dublin City Childcare Committee (www.childcareonline.ie)
Early Learning Initiative, National College of Ireland (www.ncirl.ie/ELI)
The Equality and Diversity Early Childhood National Network (EDENN) (www.pavee.ie/edenn)
Early Childhood Studies & Practice (BA Degree Programme), Adult & Continuing Education, NUI Galway (www.nuigalway.ie/courses/adult-and-continuing-education-courses/early-childhood-studies-practice)
Fingal County Childcare Committee (www.fingalcountychildcare.ie)
Forbairt Naíonraí Teo (www.naionrai.ie)
Grovelands Childcare (www.grovelandschildcare.ie)
Irish Penal Reform Trust (www.iprt.ie)
Irish Preschool Play Association (www.ippa.ie) 
Kildare County Childcare Committee (www.kildarechildcare.ie)
JAGGO Pre-school (www.jaggo.ie)
Lifestart (www.lifestartfoundation.org)
Meath County Childcare Committee (www.mccc.ie)
Montessori Alliance (www.montessorialliance.ie)
National Children's Nurseries Association (www.ncna.ie)  
North Tipperary Childcare Committee (www.northtipperarychildcare.ie)
One Family (www.onefamily.ie)
OPEN (www.oneparent.ie)
Puddleducks Pre-school
Southside Partnership (www.southsidepartnership.ie)
SpunOut.ie (www.spunout.ie)
Step-by-Step Montessori Pre-school 
Strategic Innovation in Education, University of Limerick
South Dublin County Childcare Committee (www.southdublinchildcare.ie)
Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) (http://connect.southdublin.ie/cdi/)
UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre, NUI Galway (www.childandfamilyresearch.ie )
Waterford Area Partnership (www.wap.ie)
Waterford County Childcare Committee (www.waterfordcoco.ie/services/childcareinformation)
Western Area Childcare Partnership (www.childcare-west.org)
Westmeath County Childcare Committee (www.westmeathchildcare.ie)
youngballymun (www.youngballymun.org)

Individuals (in alphabetical order)

Jenny Bernard (HSE West, Early Years Services)
Dr. Judith E. Butler (Lecturer in Early Childhood Care and Education, Cork Institute of Technology)
Emma Byrne-MacNamee (Early Years Specialist)
Margaret Coen (Childcare Tutor/Trainer)
Dr Tony Crooks (Chair, Start Strong)
Mel Duffy (Early Years Specialist)
Denise Flood (Early Years Department, Portobello Institute)
Siobhán Fogarty (Department of Applied Arts, Waterford Institute of Technology)
Geraldine French (Lecturer in Early Childhood Education, DIT)
Sheila Garrity, PhD (Fellow Child & Family Research Centre, NUI Galway (CFRC))
Dr Aisling Gillen (Children & Families Social Services, HSE West)
Professor Sheila Greene (Director, Children's Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin)
Niamh Keating (Graduate Early Childhood Care and Education, Mary Immaculate College Limerick)
Claire McMonagle (Graduate, Early Childhood Care and Education)
Brenda Molloy (Community Mothers Programme, HSE Dublin North East and Dublin Mid-Leinster)
Joe Moynihan (Lecturer in Early Years Education, Cork Institute of Technology)
Colette Murray (Co-ordinator of EDENN and Pre-school Education Initiative for Children from Minority Groups)
Candy Murphy (Candy Murphy Advice Ltd.)
Deirdre Murphy (Student, Early Childhood Studies, Dundalk IT)
Gerardine Neylon (Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick)
Catherine O'Brien (Early Years Provider)
Doireann O’Connor (Lecturer in Early Childhood Care and Education, Sligo IT)
Christine O'Farrelly (Postgraduate Researcher, School of Psychology, UCD)
Eileen O’Hanlon (Pre-School Services, HSE West)
Patsy Stafford (Froebel College of Education)
Dr Mathias Urban (Reader in Education, University of East London)
Senator Jillian van Turnhout (Senator)
Jennifer Whelan (Tutor in Early Childhood Care and Education)
Rachel Whelan (Montessori Teacher, Early Years Education)

Note: Start Strong's work is supported by a broad range of organisations and individuals. Not every opinion or position expressed in our work (whether on this or other websites, in our publications or elsewhere) necessarily reflects the opinions or positions of each supporting organisation or individual.