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Family Resource Centre National Forum-The Family Resource Centre National Forum is a support network working with Family Resource Centres (FRCs) throughout Ireland. The aim of the Forum is to represent the views of all Family Resource Centres nationally and provide practical support to Family Resource Centres involved in family support and social inclusion initiatives.
Midland Support Agency- The Midlands Support Agency is committed to supporting and empowering communities to bring about positive social change that promotes responsibility, diversity, equality and respect. They are the Support Agency for the Family Life Centre, Boyle.
Support Services Links
Accord - Accord is a voluntary Catholic organisation that aims to promote a deeper understanding of Christian marriage and to offer people the means to safeguard and nourish their marriage and family relationships.
Alcoholics Anonymous - 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.
AMEN - is a voluntary group which provides a confidential helpline, information
and a support service for male victims of domestic abuse and their children
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.
Barnardos-Barnardos is Ireland's leading children's charity. Every day, we work to make our vision a reality - to make Ireland to be the best place in the world to be a child.
Childline -Childline is a part of the ISPCC (The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children). Childline has three parts. There is a telephone service and there is an online and mobile phone texting service.
Citizens Information -Citizens Information is an Irish eGovernment website provided by the Citizens Information Board. The site provides public service information for Ireland.
Console - is a Registered Charity supporting and helping people bereaved through suicide. We respect each individual’s unique journey through the grieving process following their tragic loss. Console promotes positive mental health within the community in an effort to reduce the high number of attempted suicides and deaths through suicide.
Crisis Pregnancy Agency- The Crisis Pregnancy Agency is a planning and
co-ordinating body established to formulate and implement a strategy to address the issue of crisis pregnancy in Ireland.
Family Mediation Service-Mediation is a service to help couples in Ireland who have decided to separate or divorce, or who have already separated, to negotiate their own terms of agreement, while addressing the needs and interests of all involved. Mediation allows people to make their own decisions.
GLEN - Gay and Lesbian Equality Network. works to achieve full equality and inclusion for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people in Ireland, and protection from all forms of discrimination.
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 forms of mental breakdown, or indeed, to prevent such happening.
Irish Health - is Ireland's independent health website, designed to offer users a comprehensive yet easy to use online source of medical and healthcare information and up-to-the-minute health news.
Money Advice and Budgeting Service-MABS is a national, free, confidential and independent service for people in debt or in danger of getting into debt.
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
One Family - One Family is a leading national organisation for one-parent families in Ireland. We work with all types and all members of one-parent families, respecting the realities of family life in Ireland, to affect positive change and achieve equality and social inclusion for all one-parent families in Ireland
OutWest - is a social group for Gay Men, Lesbians and Bisexual people in the West of Ireland. We hold meetings every month and discos and other events regularly.
Parent Line - We offer support, guidance and information on all aspects of being a parent and the reassurance that, whatever the problem, you’re not the first parent to face it. Sometimes, all you could need is a listening ear.
Rape Crisis Network Ireland - Creating a society where rape and all other forms of sexual violence no longer exist
Samaritans-Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide.
Spun Out- is Ireland’s leading online youth health, lifestyle and citizenship resource for 16 to 25 year olds and provides a safe online space for young people to realise they are not alone in the issues they face whilst growing up and that they can make a positive change to their own wellbeing and to the world around them.
The Department of Social and Family Affairs - "Our mission is to promote a caring society through ensuring access to income support and other services, enabling active participation, promoting social inclusion and supporting families."
Treoir - To promote the welfare of and improve the standards of care for unmarried parents and their children
Volunteering Ireland - Volunteering Ireland is the National Volunteer Development Agency. We are an independent membership-based organisation that inspires, promotes, supports and facilitates voluntary activity in Ireland and underpins the work of Irish-based overseas development agencies that involve volunteers in their work.
Our work includes:
• Advocacy and awareness
• Organisational development
• Research
• Social Inclusion
• Infrastructure Development
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