Blog | Origins Foster Care

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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

A smiling man and young boy playing video games together at home for a blog on navigating Father’s Day in fostering.

More Than a Day: Navigating Father's Day in Fostering Families

Father’s Day can mean many things to children in care – joy, grief, loyalty conflicts, or simply indifference. At Origins, we honour the father figure and the family as a whole, but most of all, we centre the child’s voice and their unique feelings on this day.

Eithne Larkin

June 13, 2025

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