Selected by County: Kerry

Family Mediation Service (FSA)

Type(s): Family Mediation
Service Provider Type: Family Mediation Service (FSA)
Street address: Unit 2, Market Place, Maine Street, Tralee
County: Kerry
Phone number: (066) 7186100
Opening Hours: Mon & Tues 9am to 1pm, 2pm to 5pm. Wed 9am to 12.30pm (admin cover)

Family Resource Centre (FRC)

BUDS FAMILY & COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Family Resource Centre
Service Provider Type: Family Resource Centre (FRC)
Street address: Benmore, Ballyduff, Tralee
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-7148833
Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 10.00am - 4.00pm, evenings where required
Other details:
  • Catchment area - North Kerry, Ballyduff village and surrounding areas
  • Information, advice and support to target groups and families in the area
  • Practical assistance to community groups such as training, information and advice
  • Education courses and training opportunities
  • Childcare facilities for those attending courses provided by the project
  • Lone parent support groups
  • Groups for Women, Men, the Elderly, Travellers, people with a disability and/or Youth groups
  • After school clubs
  • Outreach CIC (Citizens Information Centre)

BALLYSPILLANE COMMUNITY AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Family Resource Centre
Service Provider Type: Family Resource Centre (FRC)
Street address: Ballyspillane Estate, Killarney
County: Kerry
Phone number: 064-6635589
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm (Tuesday to Thursday 6.00pm - 9.00pm) and open evenings for project work
Other details:
  • Catchment area - east of Killarney town, covering the housing estates of Ballyspillane, Deerpark, Ardshanavooley, Arbutus Grove and Ballydribeen
  • Information, advice and support to target groups and families in the area
  • Practical assistance to community groups such as training, information and advice
  • Education courses and training opportunities
  • Childcare facilities for those attending courses provided by the project (from September '09)
  • Lone parent support groups
  • Parent & Toddler Group
  • Adult Education
  • Supports for the Elderly
  • Youth Activity Programmes
  • Women's Group
  • Homework support for primary school children
  • After school clubs
  • Services eg: C.I.C, MABS, AA, resident meetings etc.
  • We seek to improve the quality of life for all members of the Community and to combat social exclusion

SOUTH WEST KERRY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Family Resource Centre
Service Provider Type: Family Resource Centre (FRC)
Street address: 6, West Main Street, Cahersiveen
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-9481000
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
Other details:
  • Catchment area - South West Kerry, Kells to Caherdaniel (approx 300 square miles)
  • Information, advice and support to target groups and families in the area
  • Practical assistance to community groups such as training, information and advice
  • Education courses and training opportunities
  • Lone parent support groups
  • Rural Men's Group
  • Youth Mental Health Groups
  • Trained staff regarding domestic violence for disclosure and referral
  • Counselling services available at a low cost

CASTLEMAINE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Family Resource Centre
Service Provider Type: Family Resource Centre (FRC)
Street address: Tralee Rd, Castlemaine
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-9767833
Opening Hours: 9.00am to 6pm Monday to Friday
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Castlemaine, Milltown, Firies and Keel
  • Information, advice and support to target groups and families in the area
  • Practical assistance to community groups such as training, information and advice
  • Education courses and training opportunities
  • Childcare facilities for those attending courses provided by the project
  • Lone parent support groups
  • Groups for Women, Men, the Elderly, people with a disability and Youth groups
  • After school clubs
  • Residents Meetings
  • Support Group meetings
  • Run a visitation service for the elderly; a worker visits each older person for one hour per week 

DUAGH FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Family Resource Centre
Service Provider Type: Family Resource Centre (FRC)
Street address: Duagh Village, Listowel
County: Kerry
Phone number: 068 45333

KERRYHEAD/BALLYHEIGUE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Family Resource Centre
Service Provider Type: Family Resource Centre (FRC)
Street address: Main Street, Ballyheigue
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-7116961
Opening Hours: 9.00am to 6.00pm Monday to Friday
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Kerryhead, Ballyheigue
  • Information, advice and support to target groups and families in the area
  • Practical assistance to community groups such as training, information and advice
  • Education courses and training opportunities
  • Lone parent support groups
  • Women's Art Group
  • Over 55's Club
  • After school clubs
  • Mother & Toddler Group / Coffee mornings
  • Easter and summer camps for children
  • Linked to Older Persons Maintenance Service in North Kerry
  • Tea Dances

SHANNOW FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Family Resource Centre
Service Provider Type: Family Resource Centre (FRC)
Street address: The Cloisters, Abbeydorney
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-7109018
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm, open evenings where required
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Abbeydorney, Kilflynn and Killahan
  • Information, advice and support to target groups and families in the area
  • Practical assistance to community groups such as training, information and advice
  • Education courses and training opportunities
  • Lone parent support groups
  • Groups for Women, Men, the Elderly, Travellers, people with a disability and/or Youth groups
  • Kerry MABS (Money Advice and Budgeting Service) run a clinic every Thursday morning - strictly appointments only
  • Room hire available at nominal rates for community groups

LISTOWEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Family Resource Centre
Service Provider Type: Family Resource Centre (FRC)
Street address: Upper Church St, Listowel
County: Kerry
Phone number: 068-23584
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm (groups operate 7 days per week until 10.00pm)
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Listowel, urban and rural
  • Information, advice and support to target groups and families in the area
  • Practical assistance to community groups such as training, information and advice
  • Education courses and training opportunities
  • Lone parent support groups
  • Alzeihmeirs Care and Carers Support Groups
  • Women's Group
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Support Group (for family and friends also)
  • We provide meeting space for a variety of community, voluntary and statutory organisations e.g. Listowel Community Day Care Centre, HSE Breast-feeding support group, Parkinsons Support Group, AA, NA and Listowel Laundry Services for the Elderly
  • After school clubs
  • North Kerry Dyslexia & Dyspraxia Parent Support Group
  • Parent & Child Creative Workshops (monthly)
  • Computer Classes for Carers (2 groups)
  • Feale Drive Residents Association
  • Snuggles & Giggles : Parent and Baby Support Group
  • Listowel FRC are presently building a dedicated Family Resource Centre and it will be opened in September 2009
  • Listowel FRC is committed to family & community support and believe in an inter-agency approach where possible to deliver its supports

SHANAKILL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Family Resource Centre
Service Provider Type: Family Resource Centre (FRC)
Street address: Shanakill, Monavalley, Tralee
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-7127831
Opening Hours: 8.30am - 10.00pm Monday to Friday
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Shanakill, Rahoonane, Gallowsfield, Cois Coille, Muing
  • Information, advice and support to target groups and families in the area
  • Practical assistance to community groups such as training, information and advice
  • Education courses and training opportunities
  • Childcare facilities for those attending courses provided by the project
  • Lone parent support groups
  • Women's Group and Young Men's Group
  • After school clubs
  • Estate management meetings
  • Sports Activities
  • Grinds
  • Meeting Space

DROICHEAD NA DAOINE (SNEEM)

Type(s): Family Resource Centre
Service Provider Type: Family Resource Centre (FRC)
Street address: Seaview, Sneem
County: Kerry
Phone number: 064-75879
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm (evenings for meetings, classes and counselling)
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Sneem, Castlecove and Caherdaniel
  • Information, advice and support to target groups and families in the area
  • Practical assistance to community groups such as training, information and advice
  • Education courses and training opportunities
  • Childcare facilities for those attending courses provided by the project
  • Men's Group
  • Youth Groups
  • After school clubs
  • Citizen Information Centre (CIC)
  • Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS)
  • AA
  • Teagasc Services

ST. BRIGID'S COMMUNITY CENTRE

Type(s): Family Resource Centre
Service Provider Type: Family Resource Centre (FRC)
Street address: Hawley Park, Tralee
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-7128521
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 8.00am - 10.00pm
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Hawley Park, Kevin Barry Villas, Mitchels area, Old/New Marion Park, Boherbee, Moyderwell
  • Information, advice and support to target groups and families in the area
  • Practical assistance to community groups such as training, information and advice
  • Education courses and training opportunities
  • Childcare facilities for those attending courses provided by the project
  • Lone parent support groups
  • Groups for Women, Men, the Elderly, Travellers, people with a disability and/or Youth groups
  • After school clubs
  • Information sessions
  • Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS)
  • Residents Meetings
  • Regeneration Support

KILLORGLIN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Family Resource Centre
Service Provider Type: Family Resource Centre (FRC)
Street address: 39, Iveragh Park, Killorgllin
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-9762933
Opening Hours: 7.30am - 9.30pm Monday to Friday (office hours 9-5)
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Mid Kerry, Killorglin
  • Information, advice and support to target groups and families in the area
  • Practical assistance to community groups such as training, information and advice
  • Education courses and training opportunities
  • Childcare facilities for those attending courses provided by the project
  • Lone parent support groups
  • Women's group
  • Men's Group
  • ADHD Support Group
  • Dyslexia Support Group
  • After school clubs
  • Residents meetings
  • Breakfast Club
  • Mother and Toddler Group

Counselling Organisation

SCOIL PHOBAIL SLIABH LUACHRA

Type(s): Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Rathmore,
County: Kerry
Contact name: Niamh Dwyer / Yvonne O'Connor
Phone number: 064 7758135
Other details:
  • Aim of group is to provide a support service for students who are bereaved.
  • The service is available for free.
  • For further information on the Rainbows Programme:
    - Telephone: 01-4734175
    - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com
Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Marriage Preparation
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: The Pastoral Centre, Rock Road, Killarney
County: Kerry
Phone number: 064-32644
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • ACCORD aims to help couples initiate, sustain and enrich their marriage and family relationships
  • Other services offered:
             - marital sexual therapy
             - fertility and well-being service
             - marriage enrichment
             - schools programme
  • Counselling - the service is based on the client's needs rather than their ability to pay.  A contribution is requested if the person or couple can afford to make one
  • Marriage Preparation - a course fee applies but the service is free if the couple cannot afford to pay

ACCORD TRALEE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Marriage Preparation
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St John's Parish Centre, Castle Street, Tralee
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-7120194
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 1.00pm & 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • ACCORD aims to help couples initiate, sustain and enrich their marriage and family relationships
  • Other services offered:
             - marital sexual therapy
             - fertility and well-being service
             - marriage enrichment
             - schools programme
  • Counselling - the service is based on the client's needs rather than their ability to pay.  A contribution is requested if the person or couple can afford to make one
  • Marriage Preparation - a course fee applies but the service is free if the couple cannot afford to pay

SOUTHWEST COUNSELLING CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Emmett's Road, Killarney
County: Kerry
Phone number: 064-6636416
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 6.00pm
Other details:
  • SouthWest Counselling Centre provides an affordable professional counselling service to children, adolescents, adults, couples and parents
  • Crisis pregnancy counselling - available for free
  • Workshops in schools and community
  • Parenting support
  • Counselling services are available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

SOUTHWEST KERRY WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION LTD

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: The O'Connell Centre, Carhan Road, Cahirciveen
County: Kerry
Contact name: Mairead Lynch
Phone number: 066-9473397
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 1.00pm
Other details:
  • Southwest Kerry Womens Association aims to:
               - enable women to be actively involved in their local communities
               - encourage and support women to participate in the decision
               making process which affect their lives
               - identify and meet the needs of rural women
               - develop a supportive management structure which is
               representative and reflective of the needs of women
  • Monitoring service for one parent families
  • Support to women's groups with information, form-filling etc.
  • Dissemination of information on health and other issues pertaining to women
  • Group looking at the issue of domestic violence and creating awareness around the issues and services in Kerry
  • The service is available at a low cost

CASTLEMAINE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Tralee Rd, Castlemaine
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-9767833
Opening Hours: 9.00am - 6.00pm Monday to Friday
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Castlemaine, Milltown, Firies and Keel
  • Counselling service is available at a cost of €15 per session

DUAGH FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Duagh Village, Triencaragh, Listowel
County: Kerry
Phone number: 068-45333

LISTOWEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Upper Church St, Listowel
County: Kerry
Phone number: 068-23584
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm (office hours), groups operate 7 days per week until 10.00pm
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Listowel, urban and rural
  • Counselling services available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

LIVING LINKS KERRY

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Sean Scoil, Sunhill, Killorglin
County: Kerry
Contact name: Margaret Casey
Phone number: 066-9790953 / 087-7955908
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 12.00pm
Other details:
  • Living Links Kerry is an outreach support group for families bereaved by suicide
  • Confidential listening service available
  • No person is ever turned away - we can refer people to other services if required
  • Our service is available for free

KERRY ADOLESCENT COUNSELLING SERVICE

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Balloonagh, Tralee
County: Kerry
Contact name: Fran O'Leary
Phone number: 066-7181333
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Professional counselling for adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 years
  • Suicide Prevention Programme in six schools in the county
  • Youthreach counselling
  • Service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

RAINBOWS ST BRENDAN'S PASTORAL CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Rock Street, Tralee
County: Kerry
Contact name: Sr. de Lourdes Fleming
Phone number: 066-7125932
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 1.30pm, Monday to Thursday 7.30pm - 9.30pm, afternoons - meetings by request
Other details:
  • Rainbows provides a safe and confidential place where children can meet, realise that they are loved and that the hurt does not last forever and help them gain trust in parents again
  • We welcome parents and guardians who bring and collect the children to the Rainbows group to make themselves feel at home, get to know each other, have a cuppa and gain confidence in the facilitators
  • The rainbows service is available for free
  • St. Brendan's Pastoral Centre offers a variety of other services including: parish choir, parent and toddlers group, music play group, yoga, pilates, counselling, information meetings

KILLORGLIN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 39 Iveragh Park, Killorglin
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-9762933
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 7.30am - 9.30pm (office hours 9-5)
Other details:
  • Counselling services available at a low cost

SOUTH WEST KERRY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Marriage Preparation,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 6, West Main Street, Cahersiveen
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-9481000
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • Small donations are accepted for the service

DROICHEAD NA DAOINE (SNEEM)

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Seaview, Sneem
County: Kerry
Phone number: 064-75879
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm (open in the evenings for counselling, meetings etc.)
Other details:
  • Counselling service is currently available free of charge but donations are accepted

BALLYSPILLANE COMMUNITY AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Ballyspillane Estate, Killarney
County: Kerry
Phone number: 064-6635589
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm, Tuesday to Thursday 6.00pm - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • Donations are accepted for the counselling service

CUAN COUNSELLING SERVICE (MFG)

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: The Monastery, The Mall, Dingle
County: Kerry
Contact name: Sinéad Chaomhánach
Phone number: 087-8275084
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Cuan Counselling aims to provide free, confidential, professional and local counselling and play therapy for young people in west Kerry and for adults affected by suicide
  • We also offer referral information for adults seeking counselling
  • All of our counsellors are trained and appropriately supervised
  • The service is currently available for free and we are committed to providing low cost and sliding scale counselling in the long term

BUDS FAMILY & COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Benmore, Ballyduff, Tralee
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-7148883
Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 10.00am - 4.00pm, evenings where required
Other details:
  • Counselling service is available at a low cost

RAINBOWS BALLYCASHEEN

Type(s): Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St. Oliver's School, Ballycasheen, Killarney
County: Kerry
Contact name: Elisabeth O'Doherty
Phone number: 064-6632047
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 3.00pm
Other details:
  • Rainbows is a peer support group for children in St. Oliver's School and its surrounding area, who are experiencing a death, divorce or any other significant loss in their lives
  • With the support of trained Rainbows facilitators the children are helped to work through their grief in a safe environment and begin to accept what has taken place in their lives
  • The service is available for free
  • For further information on the Rainbows programme:
             - Telephone: 01-4734175
             - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com