Dublin Simon Community
Caroline Murray has over a decade of experience in management and support services within the homeless sector. Currently serving as a Senior Manager at Dublin Simon Community since February 2018, Caroline oversees long-term accommodation and visiting prevention services, leading a team of 14 project workers and coordinating various outreach efforts across Dublin, Wicklow, and Kildare. Prior to this role, Caroline was a Project Manager at Sophia Housing, where responsibilities included managing a large homeless housing project and ensuring compliance with housing legislation. Caroline's career also includes roles as a Family Project Worker at Bentley House and a Relief Project Worker at Extern Ireland. Academically, Caroline holds multiple degrees, including a Master's in Child, Family and Community Studies and a Bachelor of Social Science from University College Dublin.
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Dublin Simon Community
Dublin Simon Community works to prevent and address homelessness in Dublin, Kildare, Wicklow, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan & Louth. We provide services at all stages of homelessness and enable people to move to a place they can call home. At Simon, we listen to people who turn to us for help and do everything we can to support them to move out of homelessness into independent living. We strive to empower people to access, secure and retain a home of their own by reducing the reliance on short-term emergency accommodation and providing permanent supported housing for people to sustain a home in their local community. Moving people into supported housing produces life-enhancing and life-saving results and is more cost-effective in the long run. The organisation was founded by a group of Trinity and UCD students in 1969, who began by providing much-needed soup and sandwiches to people who were sleeping rough in Dublin city centre. In addition to the Soup Run, which still goes out 365 nights of the year, Dublin Simon provide many services which aim to help those who are sleeping rough on the streets, people who are in their own accommodation but at risk of homelessness and those who are at any of the stages in between. (Charity number CHY 5963).