Welfare

If you’re looking for more specific information, you might find these contacts useful:

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Mental Health Support

• Text About It / 50808: 50808 is a free 24/7 text service, providing everything from a calming chat to immediate support for people going through a mental health or emotional crisis - big or small. Text HELLO to 50808 to start a conversation, any time - day or night. 
• Samaritans / 116 123: The Samaritans Helpline is available 24 hours a day for anyone in distress. For immediate support, about whatever is getting to you, don’t hesitate to call them on 116 123. 
• Pieta House / 1800 247 247: Pieta House provides free 24/7 support or those in suicidal distress or those engaging in self harm. Freephone 1800 247 247 / Text HELP to 51444.
• AWARE / 1800 804 848: Aware provides support & information for people who experience depression or bipolar disorder. Their support line is available Monday - Sunday 10am - 10pm. 
• Connect Counselling / 1800 477 477: Connect is a free telephone counselling and support service for any adult who has experienced abuse, trauma, or neglect in childhood. Connect is available from 6-10pm, Wednesday to Sunday.
• Niteline / 1800 793 793: Niteline is a listening service run by students and for students, every night of term from 8:30pm - 12:30am.

Crisis Pregnancy

• My Options / 1800 828 010: My Options is a HSE freephone one that provides free and confidential information and counselling to people experiencing an unplanned pregnancy.

LGBTQI+ Support Services

• LBGT Helpline / 1890 929 539: The LGBT Helpline is available for confidential, judgement free support Monday to Thursday, 6:30pm-10pm, Fridays 4pm-10pm, and Saturdays/Sundays 4pm-6pm.
• Gay Switchboard Ireland / 01 872 1055: Provides online chat and phone helpline and information for LGBT individuals, their family and friends. 
• Dublin Lesbian Line / 01 872 9911: Offers a phone support service, staffed by women who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual.

Sexual Health

• HSE HIV & Sexual Health Helpline / 1800 459 459: The HSE HIV Helpline provides a free, confidential place where you can talk through your concerns about HIV and sexual health, get information about services and consider the options to help you improve your situation.
• HIV Ireland / 01 873 3799: HIV Ireland provides support, information and advocacy services to people living with HIV and their families and caregivers.
• MPower / mpower.hivireland.ie: The MPOWER Programme is a suite of peer-driven community-level interventions which aim to achieve a reduction in the acquisition of HIV and STIs and an overall improvement of sexual health and wellbeing among gay, bisexual and men who have sex with men (gbMSM).
• SpunOut.ie / Sexual Health & Relationships

Housing / Rental Support

• Residential Tenancies Board / 0818 303 037: RTB operates Ireland’s national Tenancy Register and resolves disputes between landlords, tenants, and third parties. 
• Threshold / 1800 454 454: Threshold is a national housing charity that campaigns for the rights of tenants, works to end homelessness, provides free and confidential advice and tenancy protection services to people with housing problems. 
  
  

Parenting

• OneFamily / 01 662 9212: OneFamily provides a helpline for listening support and information for people parenting alone, sharing parenting, and those separating. 

Drugs & Alcohol

• HSE Drugs & Alcohol Helpline: Call the confidential freephone helpline on 1800 459 459 from Monday to Friday between 9:30 am and 5:30 pm.
• Alcoholics Anonymous / 01 842 0700: 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.
• Narcotics Anonymous / 01 672 8000: NA is a nonprofit fellowship or society of people for whom drugs has become a major problem
• Spunout.ie / Health & Wellbeing