PROJECT
Shaping Ourselves and Our Children (SOOC)
PURPOSE
Promoting better community relations through positive parenting
FUNDING
€1.3m from the European Union’s Peace IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body, the Executive Office in Northern Ireland and the Department of Rural and Community Development in Ireland
BACKGROUND
Northern Ireland remains a polarised society: 90 per cent of social housing residents live in single identity communities and 93 per cent of children attend segregated schooling. Increasing ethnic diversity has presented new challenges for social integration, cohesion and good community relations. A similar situation persists in the border counties of the Republic of Ireland, and recently both places have also experienced a heightened sense of division and insecurity arising from Brexit.
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