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Al-Anon
Al-Anon offers understanding and support for families
and friends of problem drinkers, whether the alcoholic is
still drinking or not. Alateen,
a part of Al-Anon, is for young people aged 12-20 who have
been affected by someone else's drinking, usually that of
a parent.
Website: www.al-anonuk.org.uk/
Alcoholics
Anonymous
The official website of Alcoholics Anonymous in the
UK: www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/
African
Carribean Family Mediation Service
The aim of the ACFMS is to provide relationship counselling
to black couples, the services provided include marriage
preparation, enrichment and counselling.
2/4 St Johns Crescent, Brixton, London SW9 7LZ
Telephone: 020 7 737 2366
Email: donna@acfms.com
Aquila
Care Trust
The Aquila Care Trust (TACT) is a growing network of self-help
groups in UK founded in 1991 for the support, understanding
and guidance of people struggling to put their lives back
together after divorce, separation or broken relationships.
It operates in two phases, the first being an 8 week series
of small group discussions facilitated by experienced leaders,
who themselves have suffered and recovered from broken relationships.
The second follows-on, giving continued support, social
events, weekend breaks, holidays and workshops.
Telephone: 01892 665524
Email: AquilaTrust@aol.com
Asian
Family Counselling Service
The AFCS is a well established national charity offering
caring, personal and confidential counselling in the client's
language with an awareness of their cultural and ethnic
backgrounds. Client's have a wide range of difficulties
including family and marital conflicts. Sometimes they find
it hard to adapt to the Western Culture. The AFCS offers
a conciliation service for Asian clients, help to local
groups, seminars, conferences and workshops, assessment
and counselling for Asian clients of probation and social
services.
Suite 51 Windmill Place, 2-4 Windmill Lane, Southall, Middlesex
UB2 4NJ
Telephone: 020 8571 3933
Email: afcs99@hotmail.com
British
Association for Counselling
The BAC is the society for individuals and organisations
committed to counselling in the UK. The association will
assist in helping to find a counsellor with appropriate
experience in your area.
Website: www.bacp.co.uk/
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Department
for Constitutional Affairs
Responsible in government for upholding justice, rights and
democracy. Its objectives are to: provide effective and accessible
justice for all; ensure people's rights and responsibilities;
and enhance democratic freedoms by modernising the law and the
constitution.
Website: www.dca.gov.uk/
Individual and Family Matters: www.dca.gov.uk/family/famfr.htm
Depression
Alliance
Depression Alliance is a UK Charity offering to help people with
depression, run by sufferers themselves. The web site contains
information about the symptoms of depression, treatments for depression
and local groups.
Website: www.depressionalliance.org
Divorce
Recovery Workshop
DRW is a UK nationwide self-help group run by volunteers who have
personally experienced a relationship break-up. It aims to enable
people to better understand what they are going through, provides
them with support from others in the same situation and assists
in the process of readjustment in their lives.
Website: www.drw.org.uk/
Equality
in Marriage Institute
An American site, the Equality in Marriage Institute is a non-profit
organisation promoting marriage as an emotional, legal and financial
partnership of equals. It exists to provide information, resources
and support to men and women before, during and after marriage.
Website: www.equalityinmarriage.org/
Families
Need Fathers
Represents non residential parents and their children, and is
primarily concerned with the problems with keeping parents and
children in contact after family breakdown. A national network
of volunteers provides advice and support on children's issues
to separated, divorced or unmarried parents. Publishes booklets
and information packs, and a quarterly journal.
Website: www.fnf.org.uk
Family
Welfare Association
Provides social work and social care services to families
and individuals. A variety of services are offered to those facing
social and emotional difficulties, including family and relationship
problems, bereavement, loneliness, poverty, unemployment and homelessness.
Website: www.fwa.org.uk/
Fathers
4 Justice (F4J)
Fathers 4 Justice (F4J) is a civil rights movement campaigning
for a child's right to see both parents and grandparents. The
group comprises Fathers, Mothers, Grandparents, Teachers, Doctors,
Company Directors, Policemen, Barristers – a complete cross section
of society – all whom believe that Britain is needlessly creating
a nation of children without parents and parents without children.
Website: www.fathers-4-justice.org/
Gingerbread
A support organisation for lone parents (through bereavement,
divorce, separation, desertion, domestic violence or by choice)
and their families, with around 200 groups around England and
Wales. Offering advice on benefits, childcare, CSA, contact, divorce,
employment, housing, maternity rights and lone parenthood.
Website: www.gingerbread.org.uk
National
Council for the Divorced and Separated
A voluntary group of people who know what it is like when
you have lost a partner for what ever reason. The aim is to find
friendship and happiness through their social branch's, where
people dance, chat and forget their troubles for a couple of hours.
Website: www.ncds.org.uk
Relate
(National Relate)
Relate is a national charity with over 60 years experience
in helping people with their relationships. Through its 2,300
counsellors working in 103 centres in England, Wales and Northern
Island, it offers counselling, sexual therapy and other services
to help with difficulties in marriage or in any adult couple relationship.
It does not offer legal, financial or medical advice but may be
able to suggest and alternative source of help.
Website : www.relate.org.uk
Samaritans
The Samaritans is a registered charity based in the UK and
Republic of Ireland that provides confidential emotional support
to any person who is suicidal or despairing; and that increases
public awareness of issues around suicide and depression.
Website: www.samaritans.org
Scottish
Marriage Care
Scottish Marriage Care is a voluntary organisation with nearly
forty years experience in the specialist field of relationship
counselling. A registered charity, it provides a professional
service to the whole community, delivered in local centres throughout
Scotland. By helping to make a real difference to couples' relationships,
its service also positively impacts on all aspects of clients'
lives, including, children of the relationship, the extended family,
employers and the wider community.
Website: www.scottishmarriagecare.org/
Telephone
Helplines Association
Search for helplines and other useful organisations using
the database of over 1000 helplines. Also included are organisations
who do not run helplines but still provide information, advice
and support on a range of issues.
Website: www.helplines.org.uk/
