Dublin Simon Community
Emma McMillen has a diverse work experience in the field of homeless and community services. Emma has recently served as the Head of Homeless and Community Services at Dublin Simon Community since September 2023. Prior to that, they held the position of Senior Manager LTA Services at the same organization from August 2022 to August 2023. Before joining Dublin Simon Community, Emma worked at Peter McVerry Trust as the Head of Department from December 2019 to February 2021. Emma also has extensive experience at Peter McVerry Trust as a Team Leader, Addiction Support Worker, and Streets to Home Project Worker from 2008 to 2019. Additionally, Emma worked as a Relief Worker at PACE, probation services, from May 2011 to May 2013, and as a Relief Worker at Dublin Simon Community from October 2009 to May 2011. Emma started their career as a Social Care Worker at Stewarts Hospital from October 1998 to March 2008, where they assisted individuals with disabilities in residential and day services.
Emma McMillen began their education in 1997 at Marino College, where they obtained a BTEC diploma in Social Care and Childcare. Emma then attended the Open Training College from 2004 to 2007, obtaining a BA in Social Care with a focus on Mental Health. In 2009, they pursued a BA Hons degree in Homeless Case Management from jobs in Ireland, completing it in 2011. Recently, from 2017 to 2018, Emma attended Dublin City University, where they pursued a Level 8 degree in Homeless Management within the field of Health/Health Care Administration/Management. Furthermore, Emma has obtained a certification in the Community Reinforcement Approach, offered by CRA and Dr. Bob Myers, although the specific month and year of acquisition are unknown.
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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).