Cork’s vital Crann Centre to share in €85k VHI fund supporting youth resilience

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The Crann Centre in Cork will share in an €85,000 fund from health insurer VHI that backs projects supporting resilience in young people. The fund channels money to community organisations working with children and teenagers across Ireland. The Cork centre, which works closely with young people and their families, is among the groups chosen to benefit. Money of this kind typically pays for programmes that help young people handle setbacks and steady themselves when things go wrong. For a small charity, a grant like this can determine whether a programme runs at all in a given year. The centre has built close ties with the families who lean on its services, and that is the kind of support the new funding will sit behind. Groups receiving the money are expected to spell out in the months ahead how exactly it will be spent.

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