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Childcare Services

Barnardos

 (01-4549699)
www.barnardos.ie		 Barnardos works directly with over 12,000 children and families throughout Ireland. Barnardos also raises issues through our advocacy programme to make Ireland the best place in the world for all children in Ireland. Barnardos responds to the real difficulties of families. We meet children's needs, providing services that challenge disadvantage, and offer new hope for children's futures.

Intellectual Disability

Inclusion Ireland

(01-6766035)
www.namhi.ie		 INCLUSION IRELAND (formerly NAMHI) is a national voluntary organisation working to promote the rights of people with intellectual disability in Ireland to ensure their full and equal participation in society. namhi was founded in 1961 and has become the co-ordinating body for over 160 organisations providing services and support to almost 28,000 people with intellectual disability in Ireland.

Nation Federation of
Voluntary Bodies

(091792316)
www.fedvol.ie		 The National Federation of Voluntary Bodies Providing Services to People with Intellectual Disability - a national umbrella organisation for voluntary/non-statutory agencies who provide direct services to people with intellectual disability in Ireland. It's members are both voluntary and religious bodies with a clear vision rooted in the respect for and the dignity of the person.

Hospitals

    

Coombe Women's Hospital

( 01-4085200)
www.coombe.ie		 The hospital, located in Dublin, was established in 1826 which means that in 2001 we celebrated 175 years of caring for women and families. Today the hospital provides the most extensive women's healthcare service in Ireland with more than seven thousand babies born here each year, an extensive pre- and post-natal programme for parents, expert care for sick and premature babies from all over the country, and the largest gynaecological service in Ireland.

Crumlin-Our Lady's Hosp
for Sick Children

(01-4096100)
www.olhsc.ie
 Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children Crumlin is an acute paediatric teaching hospital with 243 beds, employing 1200 staff. It is Ireland's largest paediatric hospital and is responsible for the provision of the majority of tertiary care services for children and medical research for childhood illnesses.

National Maternity Hospital

(01-6373100)
www.nmh.ie		 The hospital was founded in 1894 and its purpose is to care for women prior to, during and after childbirth as well as providing a full range of gynaecological services.

Rotunda Hospital

(01-8726523)
www.rotunda.ie		 The Rotunda Hospital provides a range of services to women and babies since its foundation in 1745.

Tallaght Hospital

(01-4142896)
www.amnch.ie		 The Adelaide and Meath Hospital Dublin, Incorporating the National Children's Hospital and St. Loman's, is a landmark development in Ireland's acute hospital service and was the biggest healthcare project ever undertaken by the state. It provides child-health, adult, psychiatric and age-related healthcare on one site.

Temple St Hospital

(01-8784344)
www.cuh.ie 		Established in 1872, Temple Street Children's University Hospital provides acute and specialist paediatric care for children from all over Ireland. Over 123,000 children attend the hospital annually, with over 50,000 attending Accident and Emergency making it one of the busiest A&E Departments in Europe.

Palliative Care

    

Irish Hospice Foundation

(01-6793188)
www.hospice-foundation.ie
 The Irish Hospice Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes the hospice philosophy and supports the development of hospice care. Our vision is that no one should have to face death without appropriate care and support.

Physical Disability

    

Central Remedial Clinic

 (01-8057400)
www.crc.ie
info@crc.ie		 The CRC provides a range of specialised services for children and adults with physical disabilities. Its facilities and services are available to people from all over Ireland. It specialises in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children with a wide range of physical conditions from the very rare to the more familiar, such as cerebral palsy and spina bifida.

Enable Ireland

(01-2615900)
www.enableireland.ie
info@enableireland.ie		 Enable Ireland is a leading national provider of services for people with disabilities and their families. Our 14 regional centres currently provide services for 3,000 children and adults. Our services for children and their families cover all aspects of a child's physical, educational, and social development from early infancy through adolesence.

State Agencies/bodies

    

Health Service Executive

(01-2014200)
www.hse.ie		 The Health Service Executive (HSE) is responsible for providing Health and Personal Social Services for everyone living in the Republic of Ireland. As outlined in the Health Act, 2004, the objective of the Executive is to use the resources available to it in the most beneficial, effective and efficient manner to improve, promote and protect the health and welfare of the public.

Dept of Health & Children

 

 (01-6354000)
www.doh.ie		 The Department of Health and Children's statutory role is to support the Minister in the formulation and evaluation of policies for the health services. It also has a role in the strategic planning of health services. This is carried out in conjunction with the Health Service Executive, voluntary service providers, Government Departments and other interests.

Dept Social, Community
&Family Affairs

(1890500000)
www.welfare.ie		 The Department formulates appropriate social protection policies and administers and manages the delivery of statutory and non-statutory schemes and services. The Department is responsible for the delivery of a range of social insurance and social assistance schemes including provision for unemployment, illness, maternity, caring, widowhood, retirement and old age.

Support Groups

    

Brainwave

(01-4557500)
www.epilepsy.ie		 Brainwave was established in 1967 by a group of individuals concerned to improve the quality of life of people with epilepsy in Ireland. Over the 38 years since its inception, the Association has grown and expanded and now provides a range of services from headquarters in Dublin and from regional offices in Waterford, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Sligo, Letterkenny and Dundalk.

Carers Association

(0506-22920)
www.carersireland.com		 The Carers Association is Ireland's national voluntary organisation for and of family carers in the home. Family carers provide high levels of care to a range of people including frail older people, people with severe disabilities, the terminally ill and children with special needs.

Carers Support programme
- Crosscare

(01-8360011)
www.crosscare.ie		 Founded in 1941 to tackle the dreadful poverty in Dublin in the war years, the Catholic Social Services Conference as it was then called, set up its famed food centres providing nourishing meals for those who were hungry, while the clothing department provided those in need with new clothes. The growth in Crosscare’s services emerged as the needs and concept of poverty changed in the Archdiocese over the following sixty-four years. However the central remit of this social care agency has always been to address and redress poverty, marginalisation and social exclusion in Dublin.

Children in Hospital Ireland

(01-8780448)
www.childreninhospital.ie		 Children in Hospital Ireland is a voluntary organisation which promotes the welfare of children in hospital. It is a registered charity (charity no. 6632) and is a company limited by guarantee.

Footstep-Down Syndrome Ireland

(01-8730999)
www.downsyndrome.ie
 Down Syndrome Ireland's goal is to help people with Down syndrome make their own futures as bright and independent as possible by providing them with education, support and friendship every step of the way. Through our 23-branch network nationwide, you can access thousands of other parents and families just like your own, who will have similar experiences and who will share in yours.

Jack and Jill Children's Foundation

(045-894538)
www.jackandjill.ie
 The Jack &Jill Children's Foundation helps alleviate the very distressful suffering experienced by tiny babies born with severe developmental delay until they reach the age of four years. Today the sad reality in Ireland is that succour for children under four years of age and their families is at best underdeveloped and at worst non-existent. Most people are not aware of this distressing "age gap" in healthcare services. These tiny unhappy babies and their parents could be the forgotten people of Irish society.

Parentline

(01-878230)
www.parentline.ie		 For over twenty years, Parentline has provided a completely confidential helpline for parents and guardians. Parents phone Parentline with all sorts of problems. There is no typical call. Calls come from parents of new born babies, toddlers, pre-teens and teenagers - children of all ages. All ages offer different challenges. Parentline offer support, guidance and information on all aspects of being a parent and the reassurance that, whatever the problem, you’re not the first parent to face it.

Special Olympics Ireland

 (01-8823972)
www.specialolympics.ie
 Special Olympics Ireland provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sport for children and adults with a learning disability, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendships with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community."