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Useful Links
Aware
- Web: www.aware.ie
- Email: wecanhelp@aware.ie
- Helpline: 1890 303 302
- Aware provides support for those suffering with depression.
Grow
- Web: www.grow.ie
- Email: www.grow.ie/contact.asp
- Tel: 1890 474 474
GROW 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.
Samaritans
- Web: www.samaritans.ie
- Email: jo@samaritans.org
- Tel: 1850 60 90 90
Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental support, 24 hours a day for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide.
National Office of Suicide Prevention
- National Office for Suicide Prevention
Population Health Directorate
Health Service Executive
Dr Steeven's Hospital
Dublin 8 - Tel: 01-6352139 or 01-6352179
- Email: info@nosp.ie
Functions of National Office for Suicide Prevention
- Oversee the implementation of 'Reach Out' the National Strategy for Action on Suicide Prevention
- Co-ordinate suicide prevention efforts around the country
- Speak regularly with agencies and individuals interested and active in suicide prevention
The NOSP works closely with the HSE Resource Officers for Suicide Prevention
National Suicide Research Foundation
You can contact the National Suicide Research Foundation at
Suicide Research Foundation Ireland,
Perrott Avenue,
College Road,
Cork,
Ireland.
Telephone: 00 353 21 4277499
Email: info@nsrf.ie
The NSRF consists of a multi-disciplinary research team with contributions from a broad range of disciplines, including epidemiology, psychology, psychiatry and biostatistics. The Foundation has been recognised by the Department of Health and Children as an official research unit to contribute to the prevention of suicidal behavior in Ireland.
Mental Health Ireland
Mental Health Ireland is a national voluntary organisation which was established in 1966 as the Mental Health Association of Ireland
Mental Health Ireland Head Office
Mensana House
Dun Laoghaire
Co Dublin
Email: info@mentalhealthireland.ie
Telephone: 01 2841166
Website: www.mentalhealthireland.ie
Childline
- Web: www.ispcc.ie
- Email: ispcc@ispcc.ie
- Tel: 01 679 4944
Helpline offering advice and support to children and young people under 18. Helpline number does not appear on telephone bill.
Pieta House
- Web: www.pieta.ie
- Email: mary@pieta.ie
- Tel: 01 601 0000
Pieta House offers specialised treatment to clients who self-harm, suffer from suicidal ideation or have made multiple suicide attempts. Clients receive an intensive programme of one-to-one counselling lasting about four to six weeks.
Console
- Web: www.console.ie
- Email: info@console.ie
- Tel: 1800 201 890
Supports and helps people bereaved through suicide. The Helpline offers a confidential listening service for people bereaved through suicide.
Suicide bereavement support
- Tel: 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
- Web: www.livinglinks.ie
- Email: www.livinglinks.ie/contact.htm
- Tel: 087 9693021
Trained volunteers offer confidential, practical support and advice to families who have experienced a death by suicide in a number of counties.