History & Principles
About Nua
About Nua:
History & Principles
Nua Healthcare was established in 2004 by a group of experienced social care professionals working in community outreach services for people with Intellectual Disabilities, Autism and Challenging Behaviour. Edward Dunne, CEO and founding director, had been working for many years with individuals with significant challenging behaviours in open community settings. Concerned by the lack of services available to this client group, other than institutional, he and a colleague, (Ciaran Roche) decided to establish Nua Healthcare to offer a new and unique approach to supporting those with different needs. The service was started initially as a high support respite service, but due to significant demand, developed into a full time day and residential care service.
Nua's first facility - Winterdown - was set up in the Kildare countryside in May 2004. This house, situated in peaceful and spacious farmland surroundings, proved to be a secure and welcoming home to a group of individuals with Asperger Syndrome.
Since 2004, we have grown significantly and now provide services nationally to a diverse population of individuals with varying needs. People are supported in an array of facilities at various locations across the country.
Our core principle of care is that services should be moulded around each individual, as opposed to demanding that an individual should be moulded to a service - "square pegs in round holes don't fit, no matter how hard you try to make them!"
