Safe Ireland members in Donegal

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Donegal Domestic Violence Services

County: Donegal
Tel: 074 9126267
Helpline: 1800 262677
Email: ddvsrefuge@gmail.com
Website: www.donegaldomesticviolenceservices.ie
Facebook: @DonegalDVS
Access Hours: 24 hour service, open 365 days

Ethos/Main Aims of Organisation:

Donegal Domestic Violence Services works to empower and support women to regain, reclaim and retain control of their lives and to live free from violence and abuse.

Services Provided:

Note: Group or non-essential face to face contacts are being curtailed in line with government advice re. Covid 19. 

  • Emergency Accommodation/24 Refuge
  • Information
  • Emotional Support
  • Safety Supports
  • Practical Support
  • Child Related supports
  • Court and Other Accompaniment
  • Advocacy
  • Outreach Services
  • Counselling and Referral
  • Aftercare
  • 24 hour Helpline
  • Support Groups
  • Awareness Training & Education Service

Note: The Awareness Team can provide training for professionals. We have a training programme for professionals, which aim to promote best practice among those who work with issues of domestic violence in both statutory and voluntary sector agencies.

LIFELINE Inishowen

County: Donegal
Tel: 074 93 73232
Email: info@ldvs.org
Website: www.ldvs.org/

Ethos/Main Aims of Organisation:

  • Empowering and enabling women through offering support, not advice.
  • Providing solidarity to women rather than charity.
  • Providing respect and confidentiality to clients.
  • Starting from where the woman is at.
  • Working from a model of partnership.
  • Offer a range of options for women and their children.
  • Lobby for change in Policy.

Services Provided:

  • Information
  • Support and Advocacy
  • Court Accompaniment
  • Support Groups
  • Outreach Services
  • Counselling for women
  • Counselling for Children
  • Training for Volunteers/Service Providers
  • Awareness Raising

Donegal Women’s Centre

County: Donegal
Tel: 074 912 4985
Email: donegalwomenscentre@gmail.com
Website: www.donegalwomenscentre.ie

Ethos/Main Aims of Organisation:

Donegal Women’s Centre provides a space where women can pursue their own healing and development in a safe, caring and supportive environment.  The centre developed from the coming together of a group of women in the late eighties who were committed to responding in a holistic way to the emotional, psychological, social and educational needs of women in Donegal.

Services Provided:

  • Domestic Violence Trauma Psychotherapy
  • Information
  • Referral
  • Listening Service