Blog | Origins Foster Care

Foster family enjoying time together outdoors, representing safety, stability, and the supportive community foster care provides

Inside Origins: What Is Foster Care And How Origins Supports Children and Carers

Foster care provides children with a safe, stable home when their own families can’t. In this Inside Origins story, Majella explains what fostering really involves and how Origins Foster Care supports carers every step of the way.

Eithne Larkin

August 27, 2025

Close-up of two women holding hands in support, seated on a sofa, representing how Nicola found strength in support with Origins

Journey of Hearts: How Nicola Found Strength in Support with Origins

In this Journey of Hearts story, foster carer Nicola O’Neill reveals how a strong support network of friends, fellow carers and an exceptional link worker helped her family stay the course for 14+ years.

Eithne Larkin

August 19, 2025

Two young girls in pyjamas painting hearts on a wall – representing joy and creativity in a foster care home.

Journey of Hearts: How Origins Foster Care Helped Patrick Grow as a Foster Parent

Fostering is full of rewarding moments – but it also comes with questions, doubts, and difficult days. That’s why support makes all the difference. In this edition of our Journey of Hearts series, we meet Patrick Squires, a foster carer who explains how the support from Origins Foster Care helped children in his care thrive and his family keep going with fostering for over a decade.

Eithne Larkin

July 31, 2025

Child raising hand in classroom – symbolising helping children thrive in foster care

Journey of Hearts: 18 Years, 22 Children, and a Lifetime of Care

Discover Caoimhe’s heartfelt journey through 18 years of fostering – a powerful story of care, resilience, and showing up for children so they can heal, grow and thrive.

Eithne Larkin

July 11, 2025

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