The Blue Box

The Blue Box Creative Arts Therapy Centre offers a Creative Therapy Service to schools, school completion programmes, outreach projects and preschools in Limerick City. The Blue Box is a community-oriented intervention service that deals with issues relating to behaviours, emotional and mental health as they affect young people and their families living in impoverished & marginalised communities. The work is viewed in the context of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs): the philosophical focus is on "what happened to you?" rather than "what's the matter with you?"
One of the main criteria that the Blue Box uses before partnering with a school is the level of marginalisation in the community where the school is based.