AIM Family Services
AIM Family Services provides non denominational Counselling for Couples (married, cohabiting, same sex), Individuals and Families, Family Mediation and Family Law information, and offers one stop supports for people with relationship difficulties. Our free legal information drop-in centre operates Monday to Friday from 10am to 1pm. and no appointment is necessary. Tel: (01) 670 8363.
www.aimfamilyservices.ie

Aislinn Centre
Aislinn Education and Support Centre, Jervis House, Jervis street, Dublin 1. Tel (01) 872 5771.

Alliance Support Group
The Alliance Victim Support Group offers access to counselling, educational, family tracing and other social services for individuals who have been abused as children in Ireland's State-run residential institutions.
www.alliancesupport.org

Aware
Aware is a national voluntary organisation providing support through depression. The organisation undertakes to create a society where people with depression are understood and supported, are free from stigma, and have access to a broad range of appropriate therapies to enable them to reach their full potential.
www.aware.ie

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse
This website provides an additional source of information in relation to the Commission and its work including useful pieces of information about the Commission with user friendly guides for all categories of people who may use the Commission.
www.childabusecommission.ie

Crime Victims Helpline
The Crime Victims Helpline is a National Helpline which offers support to victims of crime in Ireland. Established in 2005 their aim is to support, inform and empower victims of crime and all those affected by crime.
www.crimevictimshelpline.ie

Department of Health and Children
The home site of the Department of Health and Children.
www.dohc.ie

Faoiseamh
Faoiseamh was set up to listen to and, if required, arrange face-to-face counselling for victims of abuse by members of religious orders and dioceses.
www.faoiseamh.com

Guidelines for reporting suspected childhood abuse
The Children First guidelines about reporting suspected childhood abuse.
www.dohc.ie/publications/children_first.html

Health Service Executive (HSE)
The home site of the HSE.
www.hse.ie

HSE National Counselling Service
If you are looking for face to face counselling for issues surrounding childhood sexual abuse, please get in contact with the HSE National Counselling Service, which has counselling centres all over Ireland.
www.hse-ncs.ie/en

Irish Association of Suicidology
The IAS is dedicated to disseminating information about suicide and suicide prevention so that public opinion can respond to the issue in an informed manner and assure that it is not ignored by the statutory authorities dealing with health, education and the environment.
www.ias.ie

Mental Health Reform
Mental Health Reform (formally the Irish Mental Health Coalition) campaigns for improved and prioritised mental health services in Ireland. Their campaign aims to increase the pressure on those with the power to improve mental health services.
www.mentalhealthreform.ie

Mental Health Ireland
Mental Health Ireland is a national voluntary organisation which 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 their rights.
www.mentalhealthireland.ie

Marriage and Relationship Counselling Services
www.mrcs.ie

Oasis
Online Access to Services, Information and Support – is an Irish eGovernment website. The site provides information on the social and civil rights of everyone in Ireland.
www.oasis.gov.ie

One in Four
One in Four is a national charity which provides psychotherapy and advocacy services for people who have experienced sexual violence.
www.oneinfour.org

Rape Crisis Centres
For a directory of Rape Crisis Centres around the country. Rape Crisis Centres across the country offers a wide range of services to women and men who are affected by rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment or childhood sexual abuse.
www.drcc.ie/contact/centres.htm

Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI)
is the national representative body for Rape Crisis Centres in Ireland who provide free advice, counselling and support for survivors of sexual abuse in Ireland.
www.rcni.ie

Residential Institutions Redress Board
This website provides a general outline of the way in which the Board deals with applications for redress. www.rirb.ie

Right of Place
Right of Place is an Organisation set up to help and support survivors of Institutional Abuse in Ireland.
www.rightofplace.com

Samaritans
Samaritans provides 24-hour emotional support to anyone experiencing distress, despair or suicidal thought.
www.samaritans.org/

Shine – Supporting People Affected by Mental Ill Health (Formerly Schizophrenia Ireland)
Shine 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.
www.shineonline.ie

Soca UK
Contact Mick Waters Coventry, UK at tel: (0044) 2476 551952

Women’s Aid
Women's Aid is a voluntary organisation which provides support and information to women and their children who are being physically, emotionally and sexually abused in their own homes.
www.womensaid.ie