I can. I will.
I shall. I am.
Engage trains the adults around a child, and works one to one with the young person. Now based in County Down and open to fostering agencies, schools and youth organisations across Northern Ireland.
Across education, youth work, the arts, psychotherapy and therapeutic fostering.
By a national Independent Fostering Agency to deliver our training programmes to foster carers.
All staff and volunteers have full criminal records checks and receive additional training from Engage.
Our work rests on one belief: that people already hold the ability to recover and to go further than they expect, given the right knowledge and someone who will stay with them.
Everything Engage delivers, from a four hour seminar to a two year mentoring programme, is built to hand that knowledge over and then step back.
Training for professionals and young people
Engage works with fostering agencies, education establishments, social care organisations, training providers, and directly with young people, parents and carers.
Training for Children & Young People
Workshop themes embedded in fun, exploratory games and exercises, adjusted to suit the age range of the group.
Including devised theatre projects: working with young people on arts and drama projects, theatre and tours. Bespoke productions that can be toured around local areas in County Down and further afield in Northern Ireland, created with and for the communities they visit.
One-to-one supportTherapeutic Mentoring
One-to-one programmes ranging from basic mentoring to intensive wrap around support packages, always designed in full consultation with the young person, exploring emotions, resolving traumas and building the practical skills for independence, success and well-being. Self referrals and referrals from professionals welcome.
Fostering agenciesFoster Care Training
Specifically orientated to Foster Carers and professionals who work with Children in Care, from self-esteem and attachment to making sense of mental health.
Social care & professionalsAdult & Professional Training
Seminars for carers and professionals working with children and young people: drugs awareness, anger, team building, sex and sexuality, and more.
Training Seminars and Workshops for Young People, Adults and Professionals
- Wrap around Support Packages
- Therapeutic Support and Counselling
- Social and Creative Projects
- Community Consultation
- Arts and Theatre based Projects
We offer bespoke devised theatre projects that can be toured around local areas, created with and for the communities they visit.
Engage provides innovative and highly informative training and therapeutic programmes for Professionals, Parents, Carers and Children. Engage teaches simple but effective methods from positive psychology, proven to transform lives, and shares knowledge, practical skills and techniques across many empowering topics and themes.
More about our work
You can come to us yourself. You do not need anyone's permission to ask.
We accept self referrals from young people. That means you can contact us directly, ask what happens next, and decide afterwards whether you want to carry on. Everything you tell your mentor stays between you and them.
Set up by Mark McCready, Teacher, Therapist and Foster Carer
Engage was set up by Mark McCready: teacher, clinical therapist, and for twenty years a therapeutic foster carer for adolescents with complex emotional needs. He has been contracted by a national independent fostering agency to train its foster carers AGENCY NAME AND YEARS TO CONFIRM.
We are strictly not for profit, meaning all profits made through our work go back into Engage, enabling more young people to access our services and projects.
Meet the founderWe are keen to hear from anyone interested in working with us
Individuals, groups, organisations or public bodies who may be interested in working with us in any capacity; booking one of our services; or seeking further information on any aspect of our work.