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Care Day 2025

Celebrating and connecting the care-experienced community!

Care Day 2025

Care Day 2025 falls on Friday the 21st of February. Each year, EPIC Care Community and Youth Council members develop a Care Day theme. For their Care Day 2025 celebration, they have chosen, “Voices from care, ripples of change!”.

Voices from care, ripples of change

The Care Day 2025 theme celebrates the transformative power of hearing directly from those with care-experience. Each voice from care carries a unique perspective, shedding light on both challenges and triumphs.


By sharing experiences, voices from care create ripples of change that inspire awareness, empathy, and action. They spark understanding and challenge misconceptions about life in care. These ripples influence public attitudes, but also shape policies and practices to improve the lives of care-experienced youth in Ireland.
 
This theme is a powerful reminder that every story matters and that change begins when we truly listen. It calls upon society to amplify care voices, ensuring they are heard in all spaces where decisions are made. By embracing the insights of those with lived experience, we can collectively build a care system that supports, uplifts, and empowers, leaving a legacy of hope and progress for generations to come.

Care Day is a call to listen, learn, and amplify voices from care, as every story has the potential to create a ripple of change!

An illustrated poster features the theme "Voices from Care, Ripples of Change" for Care Day 2025. The central image shows a person standing in water, creating ripples, with only their lower legs and feet visible. They are wearing dark pants and colorful sneakers. Above, a comic-style speech bubble with stars reads "#CareDay25." The bottom of the poster includes logos: "EPIC - empowering people in care," the Irish Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, and Youth, and a colorful circular "Care Day" logo. The overall design conveys a message of creating positive change and amplifying voices in care.
A close up photograph of three young children shouting at the camera. THe Care Day logo in in the bottom righthand corner

We want to hear from YOU for Care Day! 

EPIC wants to share your unique insights so that other children and young people can learn from their care-experienced peers and feel empowered. Whether you’re in care now or have left care, this is your chance to share your top tips, advice or message with other care-experienced youth, which may help them on their care journey.

You can submit your contribution in a format that feels right for you – video, voice note, art/graphics/photographs, or written content. Your contribution will feature on EPIC’s social media channels on Care Day, inspiring others and creating a positive peer-to-peer conversation with care-experienced children and young people across Ireland!

How to be a part of Care Day 2025

Send your video or voice note to communciations@epiconline.ie – for videos: Portrait mode, 2 minutes or less.


Email a scan of your artwork to communciations@epiconline.ie or post it to: EPIC, 7 Red Cow Lane, Smithfield, Dublin 7.


Email your written piece to communcaitons@epiconline.ie or send it via WhatsApp to 087 216 2496 – 300 words max. 


Be part of Care Day this year!

We want to hear from YOU for Care Day! 

EPIC wants to share your unique insights so that other children and young people can learn from their care-experienced peers and feel empowered. Whether you’re in care now or have left care, this is your chance to share your top tips, advice or message with other care-experienced youth, which may help them on their care journey.

You can submit your contribution in a format that feels right for you – video, voice note, art/graphics/photographs, or written content. Your contribution will feature on EPIC’s social media channels on Care Day, inspiring others and creating a positive peer-to-peer conversation with care-experienced children and young people across Ireland!

How to be a part of Care Day 2025

Send your video or voice note to communciations@epiconline.ie – for videos: Portrait mode, 2 minutes or less.


Email a scan of your artwork to communciations@epiconline.ie or post it to: EPIC, 7 Red Cow Lane, Smithfield, Dublin 7.


Email your written piece to communcaitons@epiconline.ie or send it via WhatsApp to 087 216 2496 – 300 words max. 


Be part of Care Day this year!

A close up photograph of three young children shouting at the camera. THe Care Day logo in in the bottom righthand corner