Criminal Justice Service and Links

(AA) Alcoholics Anoymous 

Gives advice and help with problem drinking.  The phone lne acts as the first point of contact for information about meetings. Philosophy is to stop drinking one day at a time.  Provides an extensive range of literature.

Adult Social Care 

They aim to help adults with disabilities and older people to live in their own homes as independently as possible for as long as possible. They offer support, advice and guidance both at home and in hospital. They assess individual care needs and, if necessary, arrange care packages.

If remaining at home is no longer possible, they can help with the move to sheltered accommodation, residential care or nursing care.

Al-Anon

Al-Anon provide a readily available community resource for all those close to a problem drinker. 

Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) 

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) provides a comprehensive, evidence-based mental health assessment/treatment service to young people (who are under the age of 16 at the point of referral) and to their families who live in the Isle of Man.

The CAMHS team delivers an Island-wide assessment, treatment and support service for children and young people who are experiencing mental illness/neuro developmental disorders. The service operates a multi-disciplinary team where interventions are planned in collaboration with young people and their families/carers. CAMHS works in partnership with allied statutory and non-statutory agencies/providers.

Children and Families

The Department of Social Care's Children and Families team acts as the principal point of contact for children about whom there are child welfare concerns. Contact can be made directly by parents or family members seeking help, concerned friends and neighbours, or by professionals and other agencies. There are a number of reasons why a family may be facing difficulty and the Department will listen to your concern sympathetically and hopefully be able to support you and your family to overcome the current difficulties. 

Crimestoppers

This is not an advice line, it is a confidential answer phone to enable people to leave information for the police.  Help the police to help you.  All calls are confidential and acted upon accordingly.

Cruse Bereavment Care

Cruse Bereavement Care exists to promote the well-being of bereaved people, and to enable anyone bereaved by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss.

Dash

A non-statutory advice/counseling service and helpline. They are a harm reduction harm reduction service, in that they accept that drug use goes on and sometimes can lead to problems. They provide confidential access to information regarding the risks and consequences of drug use, which allows you to make informed decisions and access help should it be required.

Drug and Alcohol Team

Confidential, Island-wide statutory service for individuals who are having difficulties with alcohol, illegal substances, prescribed medication or over- the-counter medication.  Counselling for abstinence or controlled drinking. Community detoxifications also offered from alcohol, benzodiazepines, opiates. Open referral system.

GP Practice

You will be able to register with a GP Practice in the area in which you live.

Mental Health crisis response and home treatment team

The Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) provides an Island wide accessible assessment and crisis response service for people who are experiencing significant deterioration in their mental health and/or an increase in their psychological distress which requires an urgent response to facilitate a resolution of crisis.

Motiv8 Addiction Services

(Formerly Isle of Man Alcohol Advisory Service)

MOTIV8, formerly the Isle of Man Alcohol Advisory Service is a local registered charity on the Isle of Man (Established in 1978). We are a dedicated team of highly qualified and experienced counsellors who specialise in addictive behaviours. We are committed to helping our clients make positive changes to their lives with a non-judgemental therapeutic approach.

Our philosophy is that of harm reduction and a person-centred approach in that we believe all individuals have the power to make positive changes that can reduce and delay significant harm to themselves and their families. 

Isle of Man prison and probation service

Isle of Man Prison

Convicted prisoners are entitled to one social visit a week.  Remand prisoners are entitled to 2 social visits a week.

Isle of Man Probation Service

Provides structured supervision and enforcement of court orders and post custodial licences to deliver community based interventions to address individual offending behaviour needs.

Relate Relationship Guidance 

Relate offers advice, relationship counselling, sex therapy, workshops, mediation, consultations and support  face-to-face, by phone and through this website. 

The Samaritans

Available 24 hours a day to provide confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress, despair or suicidal thoughts.

Victim Support (IOM)

Victim Support is an Isle of Man charity, which offers free and confidential help to victims and witnesses of crime, their family and friends.

You don’t have to have reported a crime to receive our support and there’s no charge for our services. No matter when the crime happened, we’re here to help you by providing information, practical advice and emotional support.

Womens Aid

A charity who provide secure temporary accommodation (The Refuge) to women and children who are suffering, or who have suffered, from domestic abuse of any kind.