Women’s
Aid
County: Dublin
Tel: 01 868
4721
Helpline: 1800
341 900 (10am to 10pm, 7 days)
Fax: 01 868
4722
Email: info@womensaid.ie
Website: www.womensaid.ie
Access Hours: 10am
– 10 pm 7 days a week
Ethos/Main
Aims of Organisation:
Women's Aid provides direct support services and information
to women experiencing male violence and abuse. This work underpins
and informs all other goals and actions of the organisation.
We are also a feminist, political and campaigning organisation
committed to the elimination of violence and abuse of women
through effecting political, cultural and social change. Women's
Aid works from the principles of empowerment, collective action,
self-help and mutual aid, inclusion and equality. Women's
Aid recognises the diversity of women's lives and aims to
be accessible to all women.
Services Provided:
- National Freephone Helpline, open 10am – 10pm every
day except Christmas Day: free, confidential service accessible
throughout Ireland
- One-to-one Support and Information Service from 5 locations
in Dublin
- Court Accompaniment Service in the greater Dublin area
- Text and fax service available to deaf women, Text: 087
959 7980 (strictly for text use by deaf women)
Fax: 01 868 4721
- We provide personal development through art for women
and children in Dublin refuges
- We train statutory and voluntary agencies such as the
Gardai, medical and health professionals, accident and emergency
staff, legal professionals and community workers on how
to identify and respond to women experiencing domestic violence
- We are a specialist support agency to Community Development
Projects and Family Support Agencies in developing appropriate
responses at a local level
- We provide research, statistics and information to the
media and general public, and lobby for policy change in
the area of domestic violence.
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