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The following support organisations and services may be able to help you.
If you or someone you know is at risk of suicide or self harm, you should immediately contact your local doctor or go to the A&E department of the nearest hospital. You can contact the emergency services by calling 999 or 112. The doctors and hospitals in your area will be listed in the Golden Pages: www.goldenpages.ie.
You can also contact the following support organisations:
GENERAL SUPPORT:
Samaritans PHONE: 1850 609090
(Northern Ireland PHONE: 08457 909090)
Email: jo@samaritans.org
Web: www.samaritans.org
Samaritans provide confidential, non-judgemental support, 24 hours a day for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide.
ChildLine FREEPHONE: 1800 66 66 66
Childline one to one live chat (6pm - 10pm every evening & 2pm - 10pm Thursday & Saturday)
Web: www.childline.ie
Childline is a 24-hour a day service for young people up to 18. Childline offer support to young people through their listening service over the phone and through the website. You can call Childline for a chat or to talk about any problems you might have.
Headsup Text service: 50424
Headsup can be accessed free of charge by all mobile phone users on all networks. Through "Headsup" young people can receive, direct to their mobile, up-to-date and accurate contact numbers for organisations that will provide practical advice to their problems 24-hours a day. By texting 'Headsup' to 50424, the user is sent a list of topics they would like help with. The user chooses the topic and instantly receives a list of appropriate helpline numbers to their mobile phone.
www.pleasetalk.ie
Website listing student support services of all the universities in the Republic of Ireland.
Northern Ireland: We are developing a full range of Northern Ireland support links on SpunOut.ie. In the meantime,visit the MindingYourHead website for contact details of support organisations in Northern Ireland.
Contact Youth Phone 0808 808 8000
Contact Youth provides counselling to young people in Northern Ireland, believing that all young people have the right to free and confidential counselling.
ABUSE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & RAPE
Rape Crisis Network FREEPHONE: 1800 778888
Web: www.rcni.ie
Map of support services: http://www.rcni.ie/hlp_map.htm
Offer a confidential, 7 days a week 24-hour telephone helpline, staffed by trained counsellors who are available to listen to you and to any concerns you may have in regard to issues of rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment or childhood sexual abuse.
Women's Aid FREEPHONE: 1800 341 900
Web: www.womensaid.ie
The Women's Aid National Freephone Helpline offers confidential information, advice, support and understanding to women who are being physically, sexually or mentally abused in their own homes. The Helpline also acts as a referral to refugees, counselling services, solicitors, legal aid and other agencies (both statutory and voluntary), which are helpful to women experiencing abuse within a relationship.
Aoibhneas HELPLINE PHONE: 01-8670701
Provide facilities, professional help and support. The helpline offers a free professional counselling service to women and men who are suffering from violence in the home.
One In Four PHONE: 01 662 4070
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.
Amen PHONE: 046 23718
Provides a confidential helpline, a support service and information for male victims of domestic abuse.
CARI Helpline PHONE: 1890 924 567
Counselling and support for children and young people up to 18, following the disclosure or discovery of sexual abuse.
ADDICTION
Alcoholics Anonymous PHONE: 01-453 8998
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 others to recover from alcoholism.
Alateen PHONE: 01 8732699
Alateen is for young people, aged twelve to twenty, who are affected by a problem drinker.
Narcotics Anonymous PHONE: 01 6728000
A group of recovering addicts who have found a way to live without the use of drugs. It costs nothing to be a member; the only requirement is a desire to stop using.
Gamblers Anonymous PHONE: 01 8721133
Self-help organisation holding regular meetings around the country.
ALCOHOL & DRUGS
Drugs Awareness Programme PHONE: 01 8360911
Providing information, support and counselling in relation to drugs, substance misuse or addiction.
Drugs/ HIV Helpline
Tel: 1800 459 459 (Freephone)
Offers support, information, guidance and referral to anyone with a question or concern related to drug and alcohol use and/or HIV and sexual health.
Smoker's Quit Line PHONE: 1850 201203
Advice and/or support on quitting smoking.
DEPRESSION, SUICIDE, SELF HARM & MENTAL HEALTH
Samaritans
PHONE: 1850 609090
(Northern Ireland PHONE: 08457 909090)
Email: jo@samaritans.org
Web: www.samaritans.org
Samaritans provide confidential, non-judgemental support, 24 hours a day for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide.
Console Helpline FREEPHONE: 1800 201 890
Web: www.console.ie
Supports and helps people bereaved through suicide. The Helpline offers a confidential listening service for people bereaved through suicide. Console promotes positive mental health within the community in an effort to reduce the high number of attempted suicides and deaths through suicide.
Teen-Line Ireland FREEPHONE: 1800-833-634
Teenline Ireland is a national helpline for teenagers. Teen-Line provides a listening and support service.
Aware
Helpline PHONE: 1890 303302
Email support: www.aware.ie/emailSupport.php
Support groups nationwide: www.aware.ie/support.htm
Supports those who are directly affected by depression. Aware operates a helpline which is a form of non-directive counselling, available to sufferers and their families. Aware Support Groups operate throughout the country providing information to both patients and their families.
GROW Infoline PHONE: 1890 474474
GROW is a mental health organisation which helps people who have suffered, or are suffering, from mental health problems. GROW mental health groups and support services are anonymous, confidential and open to all.
Pieta House- Centre for the Prevention of Self-Harm or Suicide
Web: www.pieta.ie
Email: mary@pieta.ie
Pieta House 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.
Schizophrenia Ireland Helpline PHONE: 1890 621631
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.
Suicide bereavement support PHONE: 01-4553802
Map of suicide bereavement support groups nationally: www.nsbsn.org/groupdirectory.htm
Offer support, support groups and information to those bereaved by suicide.
Living Links PHONE: 087-9693021
Trained volunteers offer confidential, practical support and advice to families who have experienced a death by suicide in a number of counties.
Mental Health Ireland PHONE: 01 284 1166
Aims to promote positive mental health and to actively support persons with a mental illness, their families and carers by identifying their needs and advocating for their rights.
EATING DISORDERS
Bodywhys Helpline PHONE: 1890 200400
Email Support: alex@bodywhys.ie
Provides information, support and advice to those with eating disorders and their families.
SEXUALITY SUPPORT
BeLonG To PHONE: 01-873 4184
Supporting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) young people.
Gay Switchboard PHONE: 01- 872 1055
Provides non-directive, non-judgmental, befriending, support and a general information service to the gay, lesbian and bisexual community, to anyone who has issues relating to their sexuality, and to their parents, families and friends
Southern Gay Men's Health Project PHONE: 021 4278470
Provides support, information, and a contact point for many gays, bisexuals and men who have sex with men in the South of Ireland.
PREGNANCY & SEXUAL HEALTH
Positive options
Provide information and contact details for organisations that may be able to help if you are worried about being pregnant.
National Pregnancy Helpline : 1850 49 50 51
Call this number from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday to make a confidential and free appointment with an Irish Family Planning Association Pregnancy Counsellor in a centre near you.
Irish Family Planning Association PHONE: 01 - 806 9444
Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) offer services and facilities that are oriented to the needs of women and young people in particular. These include crisis pregnancy counselling, information on contraception and sexually transmitted infections, training and resources for sexuality education.
List of STI clinics
Contact details of public (free) Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Clinics throughout Ireland, including those provided as a private service by the IFPA.
Cura Helpline PHONE: 1850 622626
Offers support and help to those who are faced with a crisis pregnancy.
Life Helpline PHONE: 1850 281 281
Provide counselling to women with crisis pregnancies.
Focus Ireland FREEPHONE 1800 724 724
Emergency accommodation advice.
Threshold
Advice centres: www.threshold.ie/menu.asp?menu=70
Gives free and confidential information and advice on housing.
MABS
MABS is a national free, confidential and independent service for people in debt or in danger of getting into debt.
Parentline Helpline PHONE: 1890 927277
Support, guidance and information on all aspects of being a parent.
One family Helpline PHONE: 1890 66 22 12
Support and information on a range of issues for one-parent families.
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