Support for Traveller Students
TUS Midwest has a dedicated support worker available to all Traveller students in both a pre-entry and post entry capacity.
The Traveller support service can be accessed in the strictest of confidence.
If you are attending TUS Midwest and are in need of support or advice, please email Aileen at aileen.sheehan@tus.ie of fill in this contact form.
The Traveller Support Service Involves
- Working with Travellers and Traveller organisations to promote the courses, student supports and facilities available at TUS.
- Supporting members of the Traveller community who are attending any course at TUS Midwest.
- Building and sustaining positive relationships between TUS and the Traveller community.
Collaboration
The video below is a collaboration between the Access Service and Tipperary Rural Traveller Project (TRTP). Artist and Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD) graduate Francesca Hutchinson facilitated a four-day art workshop for Traveller children living in Cashel. The children created ‘identity boxes’ which were showcased on Culture Night 2022 in our Thurles Campus. The video shows the children working on their identity boxes and speaking about what their identity means to them.