COUNSELLING:

(See also under "Helplines" and "Support Groups")

BEREAVEMENT:

Tel: 021 4273213 34
Paul Street, Cork

• Support Programme for people who have suffered the loss of a spouse or partner through death, separation or divorce.

Bereaved Parents' Support Group- The Compassionate Friends:

Tel: 021 4364695/4312978
BPSG, 106 Grange Heights, Douglas, Cork.
e-mail: bpsg@eircom.net
website: www.geocities.com/bpsg_irl

• Adoption services and Fostering Resource Unit
• Counselling service for pregnant girls before and after the birth of their baby · Applications for home and foreign adoptions
• Assessments of prospective adoptive parents
• Post-adoption support to adoptive parents experiencing difficulties
• Post-adoption counselling is also available for adults looking for information on their origins

Meetings: Christian Brothers' Centre, Sullivan's Quay - 2nd Wed. of every month, 8pm-10pm.

• Irish voluntary non-denominational organisation offering support, friendship and understanding to anyone suffering bereavement, especially child-loss
• Everyone is very welcome
• Handbook available free: Send 35p SAE. 9"x6" to BPSG, 106 Grange Heights, Douglas, Cork

Cork Gay Community Project:

Tel: 021 4278470 (office hours see also Helplines)

(See also under "Addiction","Gender", "Helplines"and "Support Groups")

CHILDREN / YOUTH

Seedlings:

Tel: 021 4275136
34 Paul Street, Cork

• Support Programme for teenagers dealing with grief through death, separation, divorce or any other significant loss of a parent, sibling, grandparent or friend

Sólás:

Tel: 021 4552100 Fax: 021 4552120

Bereavement Counselling Service:

Barnardo's, 18 St. Patrick's Hill, Cork
e-mail: solas@cork.barnardos.ie
website: www.barnardos.ie

• Bereavement counselling for children and families
• Advice and training to groups involved with children who have been bereaved

STEPS:

Tel: 021 4318600 ISPCC
12 Mary Street, Cork

• Drop-in youth advice and counselling service

Youth Counselling Service:

Tel: 021 4270187/4273056 Fax: 021 4279248
Cork YMCA, 11/12 Marlboro Street, Cork.
e-mail: ymcacork@indigo.ie
website: www.ymcacork.org or indigo.ie/~ymcacork

• Offering one to one personal support to young people (15-28 years) involved or at risk of becoming involved with drugs

FAMILY

Family Therapy:

Tel: 021 4275678 / 4870410
CMCC, 34 Paul Street, Cork

• Day and evening hours by arrangement
• Helps families come to terms with, and deal with, various problems
• Suitable for problems involving parents and children.

GENERAL

Counselling Centre:

Tel: 021 4274951
7 Father Matthew Street, Cork.
e-mail: counsellingcentre@eircom.net

• Professional service covering a wide variety of issues for individuals and couples

Counselling Service:

Tel: 021 4552267
Dominican Pastoral Centre, Pope's Quay, Cork

• Counselling in various areas for people of all ages

Harbour Counselling Service: s

Tel: 021 4861360/ 1800 234116 Fax: 021 4861368
Southern Health Board, Penrose Wharf, Penrose Quay, Cork
e-mail: harbour@shb.ie

Opening hours: Monday - Friday 9.30 am. 5.00 pm.

• Harbour is a Southern Health Board Counselling Service dedicated to adults who, as children, experienced emotional, physical, sexual abuse or neglect
• The abuse or neglect could have occurred in a family, community or institutional setting

MARRIAGE / RELATIONSHIPS

Accord Catholic Marriage Counselling Service:

• Marriage counselling for couples and individuals

Marriage Counselling Centres

• Marriage counselling for couples, individuals and children of a marriage breakdown.
• Couples' Communication Programme.
• Pre-marriage assessments / Marriage Preparation Programme.
• Natural family planning advice and Sex Therapy.

Domestic Violence:

One Stop Shop (OSS)

Tel: 021 4222979 Fax: 021 4222966
94 South Main Street, Cork.
e-mail: osscork@eircom.net

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m.to 1p.m.

• Provides information on a broad range of issues including legal, financial and housing, tailored to the needs and requirements of each person who contacts the Centre
• Provides a free and confidential service that includes: information, support, referral advocacy and accompaniment
• Offers a walk-in service, a telephone helpline and an appointment service

Cork Domestic Violence Project:

Tel: 021 4275678
34 Paul Street, Cork
Office hours: 9.30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

• Voluntary service providing one-to-one and group counselling for victims and perpetrators of domestic violence
• Appointments are necessary.

(See also under "Support Groups")

Mná Feasa Women's Domestic Violence Project:

Tel: 021 4211757 Fax: 021 4391108
Ionad Na nDaoine, 36 Ardmore Avenue, Knocknaheeny, Cork Resource Unit Room 4, 8,North Mall, Cork

• Confidential Helpline Tel: 021 4211757
• Monday -Thursday. 10.00 am - 2.00 pm Tuesday 8.00 pm - · 10.00 pm
• Appointments available to meet women on an individual basis
• Outreach support e.g. accompanying women to Court, Garda Stations and/or Hospitals · Weekly support group
• Crisis Counselling Service
• Awareness Raising and Public Education Work
• Training Programme for new volunteers

MOVE Men Overcoming Violence:

Tel: 021 4272396 Grattan House, Grattan Street, Cork.
Tel: 01 8724357 Fax: 01 8735737
MOVE Ireland, Carmichael House, North Brunswick Street, Dublin

• We offer a weekly group session in which men can learn to spot the danger signs
• Learn to break out of isolation
• Learn other ways of expressing strong feelings safely
• Learn to stop the violence
• Learn to build healthy relationships

RAPE / ABUSE

Cork Rape Crisis Centre:

Tel: 021 4505577 Freephone: 1800496496
Fax: 021 4504690
5 Camden Place, Cork
e-mail: info@cork-rapecrisis.ie
website: www.cork-rapecrisis.ie

• Counselling service for the survivors of rape, sexual abuse and child abuse
• Legal and medical advice
• Outreach Programme delivers talks to schools and community groups
• Professional training at post-graduate level is available for counsellors nationwide
• Free and confidential service