Support Services
National Support Services
| An Garda Síochána | To report an incident of sexual violence or domestic abuse, contact your local Garda Station. For all non-emergency calls to the police call your local Garda Station. |
In an emergency, if a crime is happening right now or someone is in immediate danger, Telephone 999/112 If you are deaf, deafened, hard of hearing or have a speech impairment: Text 112, you need to register your phone on www.112.ie before using this service. |
| SAFE Ireland | SAFE Ireland is the National Social Change Agency working on Domestic Violence in Ireland. SAFE Ireland works with frontline domestic violence services across Ireland to provide state of the art and sustainable responses to women and children experiencing domestic violence in our communities. |
https://www.safeireland.ie/get-help/where-to-find-help/ Phone: 090 647 9090 Email: office@safeireland.ie Ormond Building |
| Women's Aid | The Women's Aid National Freephone Helpline 1800 341 900 operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and provides support and information to callers experiencing abuse from intimate partners. |
Phone: 1800 341 900 Email: helpline@womensaid.ie |
| Men's Aid | Dedicated support service for male victim-survivors of domestic violence including coercive control. | Telephone: 01 554 3811 Email: hello@mensaid.ie Mon-Fri 9:00-17.00. |
| Dublin Rape Crisis Centre | National 24 hour helpline and text service for those who are deaf or hard of hearing. | 24-hour helpline: 1800 77 8888 Text Service: 086-8238443 (for deaf or hard of hearing) https://www.drcc.ie/Your local Rape Crisis Centre/Network |
| Rape Crisis Network Ireland | Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) is a specialist information and resource centre on rape and all forms of sexual violence. |
www.rcni.ie |
| Rape Crisis Help | Rape Crisis Help provides information about the professional support and the choices available to survivors of sexual violence. You can call, email or drop in to a local service for information and support. They also provide a 24hr Helpline. |
24-hour helpline: 1800 77 8888 English +240 languages available through interpretation services Web chat available Mon-Fri 10:00-17:00 & Tues-Weds 00:00-03:00, excl. holidays Text Service: 086-8238443 (for deaf or hard of hearing) www.rapecrisishelp.ie |
| One in Four | One in Four professionally supports men and women who have experienced sexual abuse during childhood. Their aim is to reduce the incidence of sexual abuse by intervening in key areas of the cycle of abuse. We do this through psychotherapy, advocacy and prevention services. |
Phone: 01 662 4070 Mon-Fri 9.30-17.30 Email: info@oneinfour.ie www.oneinfour.ie |
| Sexual Assault Treatment Units | SATU staff provide free specialist care for anybody over the age of 14 who has been recently sexually assaulted or raped. The specialist team provide medical, psychological and emotional needs and appropriate follow up care for victims of sexual crime, in a supportive, sensitive manner. This includes provision of treatment such as emergency contraception and medication to reduce the possibility of developing sexually transmitted infection. The SATU services respond to requests from the Gardaí for the collection of forensic evidence to aid the legal process and also provide services for people who do not wish to report the incident to the Gardaí. |
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| Hotline | Securely and confidentially report illegal image sharing, child sexual abuse material, online child exploitation activity. |
Phone: 01 2945280 (9am-4.30pm) Email: report@hotline.ie https://www.hotline.ie |
| Female Genital Mutilation Service | Girls and women who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) can now access free specialised care in the IFPA's Dublin city centre clinic. |
Phone: 085 877 1342 Call 01 872 7088. Dublin |
| LGBT Ireland | National support service for LGBT+ community and their family. | LGBT Helpline: 1890 929 539 Online Chat Support Trans*Family Support Line: 01 907 3707 LGBT Peer Support Groups (monthly) |
| TENI | A range of support services that aim to increase the well-being of trans people and their families by providing support, education and advocacy. | Phone: 01 873 3575 Email: office@teni.ie Mon-Fri 10.00am – 6pm |
| HSE Sexual Wellbeing | Learn about Contraception, Fertility and Pregnancy, STIs, Emergency Contraception and more. | www.sexualwellbeing.ie |
| HSE Man2Man | Sexual health information for men who have sex with men, MSM. Info on Sexual health, condoms, STI testing and support services | Man2Man.ie |
| National Directory of Drugs & Alcohol Services | A directory of all drug and alcohol services and specialist drug and alcohol treatment programmes in Ireland. These services provide information, support, education and training, awareness and prevention programmes, counselling/psychotherapy, specialist treatment programmes and needle exchanges. | Drugs.ie |
| Spunout | Ireland’s youth information and support platform. Spunout’s mission is to work collaboratively with young people to support their mental health and well-being. | Spunout.ie |
| We consent programme | We-Consent is a new long-term national programme to inform, educate and engage with all members of our society about consent. | www.we-consent.ie |
| Coco's Law | Coco’s Law creates two new offences which criminalise the non-consensual distribution of intimate images. this applies even if the person initially gave consent for the pictures to be taken, but they were later shared with other people without their consent. | https://www.youth.ie/documents/cocos-law/ |