Services

Farmers Support Services

Embrace Farm

Provides support after a tragedy on the farm (life changing accident or death)
Contact Call 0857709966, Embracefarm.ie

ICSA Life Focus

A group run by farmers who may be suffering with mental health issues, as well as a range of situations farmers may find themselves in.
Contact Call 0578662120, info@icsaireland.com

IFA Farm Family (Useful services page)

Deals with social issues facing farmers e.g. welfare, health, safety, succession, inheritance etc
Contact Farm Family Useful Services - Irish Farmers' Association

Mental Health Ireland Farming resilience

Tolls designed for farmers during Covid 19 to reduce stress and maintain health and wellbeing
Contact Visit: mentalhealthireland.ie and search ‘farming resilience’

FARMRes

The FarmRes aims to raise young farmers awareness of mental health issues
Contact Visit Farmres.eu

Other Useful mental health support services

HSE Men’s Mental health Supports

Up to 6 Free counselling sessions with MyMind, available online and in some areas, in person. This requires referral from a GP.
Contact Free confidential phone support through Connect Counselling available free of charge 7 days a week between 5pm and 9pm, find out more information about the supports via the URL link: https://www2.hse.ie/mental-health/services-support/men/

HSE Mental Health

Website with information and advice about your mental health and wellbeing including a list of organisations where you can get help on your mental health
Contact Visit: Mental health

Mental Health Ireland

Website with information about managing mental health
Contact Visit mentalhealthireland.ie

Male Advice Line

Confidential support for men experiencing domestic abuse
Contact Freephone 1800816588, Mensnetwork.ie/mal
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Testimonials

After taking part in ‘On Feirm Ground’, when going out on the farm I feel more confident when harder and more personal subjects are bought up by the farmer. I know the right questions to ask and what signs to look for instead of not knowing what to say to try and help the situation. Having this knowledge is a great advantage as you are never worried going into a farm of not knowing what to say or not saying the correct thing and making the situation worse.

‘On Feirm Ground’ has improved my understanding of how Agricultural Advisors can more effectively engage in supportive communications with farmers

I thought the ‘On Feirm Ground’ training was very good, I am much more aware of how to spot the signs of someone in distress, and comfortable enough in opening the conversation with most of my clients. The EARS approach is very effective.

Since ‘partaking in the On Feirm Ground’ training, I have tried to be more open to talking to farmers about issues they may have physically or mentally and encourage them to get help they needed if it is not already sought.

I suppose doing ‘On Feirm Ground’, it helped me to see that poor health can be very common across the client base. I think it can be hard to try to help someone that is under pressure but with this training it has helped me in ways of addressing these types of situations Really it has raised awareness of what we can do to help farmers and where we can also look for help for them if they require it.

The ‘On Feirm Ground’ programme definitely made me more aware to monitor farmers well being and to encourage them to seek help.

The workshop was very insightful and delivered in a very engaging way which supported insightful discussion around farmer health. It was invaluable to learn that if there is somebody in need, there are a lot of supports and resources available, and most importantly how we might signpost a person in need to those resources.

I feel that I have sound coping options to safeguard my wellbeing and guidance to appropriately assist farmers in difficult situations.

I found the course very helpful for the day-to-day dealings with Farmers both on the phone and face to face. I am more aware of signs to look out for and know where to direct a person if need be.

I’m really glad I did this and i also got plenty booklets to recap of when was done in class. The videos for the class were so realistic.

I found this training very well based in real-life scenarios and so therefore very applicable…