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Louth Local Support Services
Women’s Aid Dundalk
Email: info@womensaiddlk.net
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/womensaiddundalk
Text support: 086 189 2439
Refuge: 042 933 7202
Admin: 042 933 3245
Women’s Aid Dundalk was founded in 1994 and provides the following range of PreCrisis, Crisis and Post-Crisis services to women and children and the wider community impacted by Domestic Abuse/Coercive Control.
• 24 hour Helpline: 042 933 3244 (web, text and email support) • 1-2-1 Information & Support • Refuge Accommodation • Drop-In Court Service • Child Support Programmes, Play Therapy and Life Story Work • Accompaniment and Advocacy • Outreach Clinics and Support • Awareness-Raising and Education • Support Programme for Women: Power to Change • Community Childcare Service: The Playroom Project • National & Secondary Schools Programmes • Training for 3rd-level Students and Organisations
Drogheda Women’s Refuge
Tel.: 24 hour Helpline: 041 984 4550
Drogheda Refuge: 041 984 4998
Website: www.droghedarefuge.org
Facebook: Drogheda Women’s Refuge
Email: info@droghedarefuge.org
Drogheda Women & Children’s Refuge provides support to women and children who experience Domestic Violence and Homelessness through the following: • Provision of safe refuge accommodation • General accompaniment & advocacy • 1:1 Information & support • Outreach support service & clinics • Court accompaniment • Transitional house • Childcare facility providing pre-school and after-school facility • Therapeutic support programmes for children: ‘How it looks to me’; ‘Say it your own way’; and ‘My family is changing’ • Drop-in childcare support for mothers in the refuge • Support & development programme for women • Aftercare support • Counselling support service
Louth Family Resource Centre
Connect Family Resource Centre 171 Money More, Drogheda, Louth
Tel: 041 984 6608/087 945 4557
Email: coordinatorconnectfrc@gmail.com
Contact: Cliodhna Cunningham, Co-ordinator
Facebook: Connect FRC
Family Resource Centres provide a range of universal and targeted services and development opportunities that address the needs of families. Should you require support or advice, please contact one of the above numbers. You can find our full range of services on our website: www.connectfamilyresourcecentre.com
North Louth Family Support Caroline Bowe – Family Support Services Tel: 042 935 1680 Email: caroline.bowe@tusla.ie
South Louth Family Support Karen Byrne – Family Support Services Tel: 041 215 2300 Email: karenm.byrne1@tusla.ie
We are part of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. We offer a support service to families in Louth and Meath who are going through stressful or difficult times. We help families to cope better and improve their family life. If you are willing to work with us, we will support you and your children to deal with worries and improve your family’s quality of life so that your children are safe and achieving their full potential. We work with parents from all cultures and backgrounds and their children up to the age of 18 – but only with the willing participation of families.
Senior Child & Family Support Network Coordinator
Louth Meath Child and Family Support Network Coordinator (Meitheal) Sandra Stafford Email: sandra.stafford@tusla.ie Tel: 046 907 3178
Paula McCabe —North Louth Tel: 042 935 1680 paula.mccabe1@tusla.ie Ann Marie Kidd — South Louth Tel: 041 215 2300 Annmarie.kidd@tusla.ie
Meitheal is a Tusla-led early intervention Practice Model designed to ensure that the strengths and needs of children and their families are effectively identified, understood and responded to in a timely way, so that children and families get the help and support needed to improve children’s outcomes and realise their rights. It is a multi-agency (when necessary) response tailored to the needs of the individual child or young person. Meitheal is voluntary and can only be undertaken when the parent/carer provides their written consent. It is used in partnership with parents to help them share their own knowledge, expertise and concerns about their child and to hear the views of practitioners working with them. The ultimate goal is to enable parents and practitioners to work together to achieve a better life for the child. This team is part of the wider PPFS team.
Dedicated Point of Contact Louth Meath Dedicated Point of Contact Louth Meath Tusla Child and Family Agency Meath Enterprise Centre Trim Road Navan County Meath Tel: 046 909 8560/909 8500
The Dedicated Point of Contact (DPC)/Screening Team provides advice to professionals, parents, family members, members of the public and young people who are concerned for the safety of children and young people. DPC ensures that the worries regarding children and young people’s immediate safety are assessed appropriately and have a response according to the level of harm and impact on the children or young people. DPC screens the concerns reported by engaging with parents, children and extended family and professionals. It is important that DPC is contacted when there are reasonable grounds of concern that a child is being harmed, may have been harmed or is at risk of being harmed. If you are unsure, please contact DPC to discuss your concerns so DPC can give advice on what needs to happen. When the DPC Social Worker identifies that there is harm and/or impact present for children, an Interim Safety Plan is agreed and the case is prepared for Initial Assessment, or the case closes to the Department if sufficient safety measures can be identified and agreed.
District
Dundalk
Drogheda
Ardee An Garda Siochána
Station Phone
District Office
District Office 042 933 2585
041 987 4200
District Office 041 685 3222
DPSU Castlebellingham 042 939 9270
Detective Sergeant Gerard Collins DPSU Castlebellingham
Detective Sergeant Karen McDonnell DPSU Castlebellingham
Gerard.w.collins@garda.ie
Karen.m.mcdonnell@garda.ie
Counselling in Primary Care (CIPC)
Tel: 046 902 7303 Helpline Number: 1890 252 563
A free HSE counselling service for people with mild to moderate psychological difficulties. It is a short-term service that provides counselling to medical card holders who are 18 years of age or over and who want help with psychological problems that are appropriate for time-limited counselling in primary care. Referrals are made through GPs or members of the HSE Primary Care Team and can be posted to HSE Counselling in Primary Care Service, 34 Brews Hill, Navan, Co. Meath or via Healthmail to cipc.ne@hse.ie. Referral forms and service information are available at https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/4/ mental-health-services/counsellingpc/.
Appointments are available from different HSE premises across the region. During the Covid-19 pandemic, appointments are available by telephone or online video call, and some evening appointments are also available. The service is suitable for people who are experiencing difficulties such as depression, anxiety, relationship problems, loss issues and stress.
Counselling Services
Dundalk Counselling Centre
3 Seatown Place, Townparks, Dundalk, Co. Louth. A91 FY67 Tel: 042 933 8333 Website: www.dundalkcounsellingcentre.ie Email: info@dundalkcounsellingcentre.ie
Dundalk Counselling Centre CLG is a community-based, voluntary and non-profit organisation established in 1982 and offers its services throughout the North East Region of Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Cavan, Armagh & Down. Its main aim is to provide professional therapeutic counselling to all in the community regardless of their social class, religious persuasion or race, with special emphasis on the socially deprived and disadvantaged, irrespective of their means. Our service is staffed by professionally trained counsellors. It operates to the highest standards, and our counsellors are accredited or are working towards accreditation with the IACP (Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), IAHIP (Irish Association for Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy) & FTAI (Family Therapy Association Ireland). We offer individual therapeutic counselling to adults, adolescents and children, and Family therapeutic counselling to couples & families. We are a low-cost therapy service; fees are based on what each individual can afford. Our main funders are Tusla, Child & Family Agency and the Department of Justice Support for Victims of Crime.
Rian Counselling
Counselling for adults who have experienced childhood abuse. For more details about Rian Counselling, please refer to Meath local support services. Phone: 1800 234 117.
Tel: 046 902 7303
The CIPC service in the North East is currently also providing a Bereavement counselling support service for family members or others impacted by grief or by the death of a loved one during the Covid-19 pandemic. This HSE service is provided by telephone or online video call and is available for adults aged over 18. During the Covid-19 pandemic, evening appointments are also available. Referrals can be posted to HSE Bereavement Counselling Support Service, 34 Brews Hill, Navan, Co. Meath or via Healthmail to cipc. ne@hse.ie Alternatively, service users can self-refer on the above number. This is a free service and a GMS card is not required. The service is suitable for people who are experiencing difficulties such as Covid-19, bereavement, grief and stress.
Louth Court Services
Email: dundalkcourtoffice@courts.ie Tel: 042 939 2300
Rape Crisis Centre North East
Telephone: 042 933 9491 Helpline: 1800 21 21 22 Website: www.rcne.ie Email: info@rcne.ie
Rape Crisis North East is a unique and specialised counselling, advocacy, information and support service for women, men and teenagers who have experienced any form of sexual violence and or sexual abuse. This includes rape, sexual assault, child sexual abuse and sexual harassment. Services can be accessed through our free phone confidential Helpline number: 1800 21 21 22. Services provided by Rape Crisis North East include: • Freephone confidential helpline • Crisis support and intervention • Short-term and long-term counselling & therapy for adults, both male and female • Face-to-face counselling and support for young people from the age of 12, both male and female • Counselling and support for families, friends and colleagues • Court accompaniment • Garda accompaniment • Medical accompaniment • Training and educational programmes • Information/talk sessions • Advocacy
Louth MABS
The Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) is free, confidential and independent, whose dedicated and expert team offers free support and legal advice.
Dundalk MABS
58/59 Anne Street Dundalk Co. Louth A91 RF97
Drogheda MABS 1 Mayoralty Street Drogheda Co. Louth A92 ADC9 Tel: 0818 07 2540 Email: dundalk@mabs.ie Opening Hours: Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm
Tel: 0818 07 2490 Email: drogheda@mabs.ie Opening Hours: Monday–Friday, 9am–1pm & 2pm–5pm
SOSAD
SOSAD Dundalk Phone: 042 932 7311
SOSAD Drogheda Phone: 041 984 8754
SOSAD Ireland provides support for clients aged 16 and up, in several ways: • A safe & comfortable place to talk and be listened to • Initial meeting (to establish need) • Professional counselling • Bereavement support • Follow-up support • Referral to most appropriate Support Service available We operate a 24/7 365 day helpline for anyone feeling depressed, suicidal or anxious and who needs someone to talk to and listen to them. We also have a text-based messaging service which is accesible via our website from 8pm to midnight, 7 days a week.
