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The Cancer Care West Support Centre in Galway has announced their Peer Support Group Winter schedule. These support groups provide a platform for those affected by cancer to come together – to connect, to share experiences, to ask questions of each other and sometimes to simply chat and laugh together.

Galway Community Café is a café with a difference. Located in Mr Waffle on Newcastle Road, the premises changes in the evening from a popular dining spot to a much quieter space. Here, anyone who is concerned about their mental health can sit and talk to someone who will understand what they are going through.

Galway Recovery College offers education in recovery from mental health and/or life challenges through transformative learning. Usually based in NUIG, we have been offering all recovery education sessions online via Zoom since last March. Our students say that they look forward to our sessions which also provide enjoyable and productive connection in these times of isolation.

Bealach Nua which in English means New Way, is an innovative family peer support service for families/friends of people with mental health difficulties and is currently expanding its offering in Mayo.

Galway Recovery College offers transformative learning in mental health and wellbeing. Recovery education is designed to enable people to grow within and beyond their life experiences and challenges. Based in the Institute for Life Course and Society building (ILAS), NUI Galway, the college is unlikely to be able to reopen before September. Since April it has been offering recovery education sessions online via Zoom.

According to the latest estimates from the World Health Organisation, more than 300 million people worldwide and approximately 450,000 people (one in 10) in Ireland are now living with depression.

A new mental health peer support group has been established in Athlone.

The BRI advocacy and peer support group, for people who have experienced a trauma to the brain, will be having its monthly meeting in the Le Chéile Community and Family Resource Centre, Tucker Street, Castlebar, on Monday July 18 from 7.30pm to 9pm.

The South East Regional Family Support Network co-ordinates meetings for family members who are living with drug use. Regular meetings are organised at a local level by family members in order to offer peer support.