FOR PARENTS & GUARDIANS – Supporting Your Young Person
This section offers trusted information and local supports to help you understand and respond to your child or teenager’s mental health needs.
🧭 Accessing Services
- HSE Mental Health Services – Directory of public and community supports. Freephone Information Line: 1800 111 888 (available 24/7)
- Wexford CYPSC – Local list of youth and family mental health supports.
- Wexford Parents Hub – Parenting resources, workshops, and advice.
- Waterford Parent Hub – Email familywellbeing@brillfrc.ie | Phone 051 350100
💬 When You Need to Talk or Get Advice
- Parentline – Confidential support line for parenting challenges. Call 01 873 3500
- One Family – Support for parents through separation, relationship change, or family difficulties.
- Barnardos Parenting Support – Free helpline and resources for parents and carers. Phone 01 473 2110
- Jigsaw for Parents – Guidance on supporting a young person’s mental health.
- SpunOut Parent Guides – Practical information about talking to teens about mental health.
🕊️ Bereavement & Grief Supports
🏠 Local & Specialist Supports
📚 Useful Resources
- HSE Minding Your Wellbeing
- Turn2Me– Free online therapy for adults and parents.
- Citizens Information – Wexford | Waterford – For local welfare, legal, and social supports.
- Safe Ireland– 24 hours support to create confident, competent community-based responses to domestic, sex, gender and sexuality-based violence and coercion, wherever it occurs.
♣️Service and Guidance Providers in Wexford/Waterford
RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS – Mental Health and wellbeing supports
It’s okay to reach out for help — whether you’re feeling stressed, anxious, lonely, or just need someone to talk to.
All of the services below are free, confidential, and easy to access.
💬 Talk to someone now
- Childline (ISPCC)– 24-hour free support for anyone under 18 on a wide range of topics. Call 1800 66 66 66 | Text 50101 | Chat online at childline.ie
- Text About It – 50808 – Free, 24-hour text support service. Text HELLO to 50808 or visit text50808.ie
- Samaritans– If you ever feel overwhelmed or alone. Call 116 123 (free, 24/7)
- Pieta– Free help if you’re in distress, feeling suicidal, or self-harming. Call 1800 247 247 or Text HELP to 51444
🌿 Youth Mental Health services
- SpunOut.ie is an Irish non-governmental organisation focused on providing online youth information. It provides information on a range of youth issues such as drugs and vaping awareness, employment laws for teenagers, LGBTI+ suppports . It is Ireland’s youth information website covering mental health, school, body image, and relationships. You can also text SPUNOUT to 50808 to chat with a trained volunteer.
- Jigsaw –s a youth mental health charity in Ireland offering free therapy and support to children and young people aged 12 to 25. Chat online at jigsaw.ie/livechat or visit your nearest Jigsaw service.
- BeLonG To Youth Services – Support for LGBTI+ young people, including youth groups and online resources.
- Turn2Me – Free online counselling and peer support for teens and young adults.
- Tackle Your Feelings – Tools and videos to help you manage stress and build confidence.
- Walk in My Shoes: This website offers a range of supports, including parent training and webinars on topics such as bullying, mental health etc.
- www.togetherall.com/irelandTogetherall is a new online mental health peer-to-peer platform for people in Ireland aged 16 to 30. The Togetherall support community is an online space where people aged 16 to 30 in Ireland can connect with others who understand what they’re going through. The community is anonymous and moderated by mental health clinicians 24/7, ensuring everyone is safe and welcome, with no judgement and no stigma.
🌤️ Coping, grief & wellbeing
- Barnardos Bereavement Support – Help for young people coping with loss.
- Irish Hospice Foundation – Bereavement Line – Call 1800 807 077
- Minding Your Wellbeing – HSE – Short videos on staying well, managing emotions, and building resilience.
📱 Wellbeing apps (Free to download)
- Insight Timer- Selection of short exercises for different needs.
- MindShift CBT – Manage anxiety using evidence-based tools.
- Clear Fear – Cope with panic and worry.
- Headspace – Learn mindfulness and calm breathing.
Downloadable resources for Students
🏫RCS Support Services
See our website page with full list of RCS Support Services and remember if you are struggling, you can talk to:
- Your Year Head or Tutor
- The Chaplain
- The Guidance Counsellor/School Counsellor- Drop in and appointment
- Rainbows Bereavement or Separation support- Termly small student support group
- School Completion Programme-Home School Community Liaison /Clodagh
- AILM - The Nook and Haven- Psychotherapy Service- By Appointment
All conversations are confidential unless there’s a safety concern.
Downloadable booklet of RCS Local Support Services Resource Pack