Mental Health Programme

The Mental Health Programme provides clinical advice and support in the development of educational initiatives in primary care and contributes advice from a GP perspective into national policy and programme developments.

There are around 3,000 GPs in Ireland who manage approximately 25 million consultations annually. About one-fifth of these directly relate to a mental health symptom.
 
As trained specialists in mental health, knowing patients over time, GPs are experts at listening, counselling, diagnosing, risk assessing, and managing mental health.

Available through Translate Ireland, Minding Your Mental Health is a series of multilingual mental health video messages presented by doctors and other health professionals now living and working in Ireland. The videos are available in Romanian, Polish, Arabic, English, French, Lithuanian, Russian, Irish and Portuguese. Visit translateireland.ie or the mental health playlist. 

The HSE offers a wide range of advice and information on every aspect of your mental health through its website. 

Access the HSE mental health section

MyMind.org offers fast and easy access to counselling and psychotherapy, both face to face and online.

The "Mental Health" section on www.healthpromotion.ie contains a wide variety of HSE leaflets, booklets, posters, wallet cards and more that are freely available to order for delivery. They include information literature on: suicide prevention; suicide bereavement; general mental health; self-harm; perinatal mental health, and promotional items for services such as Text 50808, a free 24/7 text service providing everything from a calming chat to immediate support.

Keep Well Campaign - Campaign, website, information and signposting for the Government of Ireland and Health Ireland.

Community Call Networks - Telephone and networking contact from Local Authorities, Department of Rural and Community Development, and Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. 

Connecting for Life - Ireland's national strategy to prevent suicide. Connecting for Life is a cross sectoral strategy with 69 actions under seven strategic goals.