Mental Health

Aware is a national voluntary organisation providing support through depression. Services include support groups nationwide, a loCall Helpline open 365 days a year (both services available to individuals with depression and also family members and friends) and an email support service.

Contact 01 661 7211 for more information on support groups available nationwide. Locall national helpline: 1890 303 202 available 10am- 10pm. Email support service: wecanhelp@aware.ie available Mon –Fri 9am-5pm.

MyMind is a community based mental health organization offering accessible and affordable mental health services. MyMind offers services to people with mental health difficulties such as depression, anxiety, addiction, work-related stress and suicidal thoughts. MyMind offers a non-medical early intervention approach.
Main activities include:

• One to one client sessions
• Group and family sessions
• One- or two-day Mental Health Awareness trainings open to everyone
• Professional training workshops for industry practitioners

MyMind is open 7 days a week, currently based at 1 Chelmsford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 and 86 Amiens Street, Dublin 1.

For more information contact 01 44 33 961 or visit www.mymind.org

GROW is a Mental Health Organisation which helps people who have suffered, or are suffering, from mental health problems. Members are helped to recover from all form of breakdown, or indeed, to prevent such happening. GROW has been in Ireland since 1969 and has a national network of more than 130 groups throughout the country. Its principal strength is the support members give each other from their own experience in matters to do with mental health.

Contact the information line on 1890 474 474 for information on support group locations or email info@grow.ie

Shine (formerly Schizophrenia Ireland) is the national organisation dedicated to upholding the rights and addressing the needs of all those affected by enduring mental illness including, but not exclusively, schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder and bi-polar disorder. Shine operates a information helpline 1890 621 631 that is available from Mon- Fri 9am- 4pm.

Contact Shine offices on 01 8601620 for more information or log on to www.shineonline.ie

Bodywhys offers support, information and understanding for people with eating disorders, their families and friends. Bodywhys provides a national helpline service and email support service. Call 1890 200 444 for

Log onto the BodyWhys website for more information on opening hours and an online support group.

Headstrong is an initiative working with communities in Ireland to ensure that young people aged twelve to twenty five are better supported to achieve mental health and wellbeing. Headstrong does not provide direct services to young people, rather it works with those who do, acting as an expert partner to the Health Services Executive and other people and services concerned with providing mental health and well-being supports to young people in Ireland.

Headstrong can be contacted at 01 6607343 or by logging onto www.headstrong.ie

Suicide

Samaritans provides 24-hour non judgmental emotional support to anyone experiencing distress, despair or suicidal thoughts. Established in Ireland in 1962, there are now twenty Samaritans branches across the island of Ireland.

The Samaritans helpline is 1850 60 90 90 or email jo@samaritans.org for email support.

Console is an organisation that helps people who are bereaved by suicide. They provide national helpline service 1800 201890, individual and family bereavement counselling and therapy and support groups.

For more information contact Console on 01 8685232 or log onto www.console.ie

Living Links is an organisation that provides assertive outreach support on a one to one basis to those bereave by suicide. The Living Links listening/support service is free of charge and available to any person in the community including emergency personnel, Gardai and clergy etc., who have in any way been affected by suicide.

Contact 087 4122052 for more information or log onto www.livinglinks.ie.

Pieta House, the Centre for the Prevention of Self-Harm or Suicide offers a specialised treatment programme for people who have suicidal ideation or who participate in self-harming behaviours. In particular, this centre targets people who have already attempted to take their lives. This service is free of charge, but donations are welcome. The specialized treatment programme offers a comprehensive service aimed at individuals and their families who are affected by multiple suicidal attempts, suicidal ideation or continuous self-harming behaviours.

Pieta house is located in Lucan Co Dublin and can be contacted at 01 601 00 00.

Debt

MABS is a national, free, confidential and independent service for people in debt or in danger of getting into debt. MABS provide a helpline service 1890 283 438 available Mon –Fri 9am-8pm and an email support service (helpline@mabs.ie).

Log onto www.mabs.ie for a list of national MABS offices.

Teen Issues

Childline is a part of the ISPCC (The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children). Childline has two parts. There is a telephone service and there is an online and mobile phone texting service.

The telephone service is available 24 hours a day on 1800 66 66 66 .

The online service can be accessed by logging on to www.childline.ie . The mobile phone texting service is open only for certain parts of the country and for young people who are hard-of-hearing or deaf. It can be accessed by texting the word "Deaf" to 50101 between 6pm and 10pm.

Teen-Line Ireland is a free-phone service for young people available Wednesdays 3pm - 6pm, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays 9pm - 12 midnight and on Sundays 8pm - 11pm. The Helpline can be contacted on 1800833634.

Sexual Abuse

The Rape Crisis Centre is a national organisation offering a wide range of services to women and men who are affected by rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment or childhood sexual abuse. The services include a national 24-hour helpline, one to one counselling, court accompaniment, outreach services, training, awareness raising and lobbying. The aim is to offer help and support to anyone who has experienced sexual violence of any kind. This may have been recently, some years ago or in childhood.

The helpline is available 24 hrs/a day at 1800778888.

One in Four offers a voice to and support for women and men who have experienced sexual abuse and/or sexual violence and also to their family and friends. One in Four provide advocacy support, individual psychotherapy, group therapy and online support.

One in Four can be contacted at 01 662 4070 or by logging onto www.oneinfour.ie

The CARI Foundation aims is to provide a professional, child centred therapy and counselling service to children, families, and groups who have been affected by child sexual abuse.

Cari Helpline is available from Mon- Fri 09:30-17:30 on 1890 924567 or log onto www.cari.ie

Sexual Health

Drug/HIV Helpline is a free phone, confidential helpline offering support, information, guidance and referral.

The helpline is available on 1800 459 459 everyday from 10am-5pm.

Sexuality

BeLonG To is an organisation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) young people, aged between 14 and 23.

Log onto www.belongto.org or more information on available support groups and to available of an online support service which is available Friday evenings from 8-11pm, on Saturday afternoons from 11am-2pm, and on Sunday evenings from 8-11pm

Gay Switchboard is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual community based service that operates a helpline service, married men’s group and parents support group.

The Gay Switchboard helpline is available on 01 8721055 from Mon-Thursday 7:30pm- 9:30pm.

Alcohol

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help themselves and others to recover from alcoholism. Alcoholics Anonymous provide support group around the country.

Contact 0 1 8420700 for a list of support group locations near you or go to www.alcoholicsanonymous.ie for more information.

Al-Anon offers understanding and support for families and friends of problem drinkers in a group setting.

For information on your nearest Al-Anon group contact 01 8732699 from Mon-Fri 10:30- 14:30.

Drugs

Narcotics Anonymous is a support organisations for people addicted to drugs. They provide peer group support on a national basis.

To find out more about Narcotics Anonymous Groups in your area contact 01 6728000 Mon-Fri 09:00-17:00

Drug/HIV Helpline is a free phone, confidential helpline offering support, information, guidance and referral.

The helpline is available on 1800 459 459 everyday from 10am-5pm.

Gambling

Gamblers Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who have joined together to do something about their own gambling problem and to help other compulsive gamblers do the same.

Contact (01) 8721133 for more information or log onto www.gamblersanonymous.ie

Gam-Anon is a fellowship of men and women who are husbands, wives, relatives or close friends who have been affected by a gambling problem.

To find out more about the nearest Gam-Anon group to you contact 01 8721133 Mon-Fri 09:00-17:00 or email info@gamblersanonymous.ie

Pregnancy

Positive Options is a free text service available 24 hours a day from the Crisis Pregnancy Agency. The positive options text service provides a list of crisis pregnancy service available nationwide.

To access the service text ‘List’ to 50444 or log onto www.positiveoptions.ie

Physical Abuse

Women's Aid provides support and information to women and their children who are being physically, emotionally and sexually abused in their own homes.

Women’s Aid provide a helpline 1800 341 900 available from 10:00-22:00 or log on to www.womensaid.ie

AMEN is a voluntary group which provides a confidential helpline, information and a support service for male victims of domestic abuse and their children.

Contact 046 9023718 Mon –Fri 09:00-17:00 or log onto www.amen.ie

Parenting

Parentline is an organisation that supports parents and guardians in their role as parents.

Parentline provide a helpline 1890 927277 that is available Mon- Thurs 10:00-21:30 Fri 10:00-16:30. For more information log onto www.parentline.ie

One Family is a national organisation for one-parent families in Ireland. One Family offers a wide range of services to one-parent families, to those experiencing a crisis pregnancy and to those working with one-parent families.

One Family information line is available on 1890 662212 Tues 14:30-16:30, Wed 10:00-12:00, Thurs 13:00-15:00.

Email support also available by emailing support@onefamily.ie. For more information log on to www.onefamily.ie

Treoir is the national federation of both statutory and voluntary agencies which provide services to unmarried parents and their children.

Treoir National Information line is 1890 252 084 Mon-Fri 09:30-17:00 or log onto www.treoir.ie