Resources

Information/Advice

The Roscommon Women’s Network project office is an Information Centre for women in the County. Some of the many supports services available at our Drop-In / Resource Centre. Please ring the Office 094 9621690 for details of times & appointments.

• Drop In /Information Centre
• Low cost General Counseling
• Listening Referral Service
• Bereavement Counselling
• Suicide Prevention Counselling
• Relationship & Family Therapy
• Domestic Abuse Counselling
• Access to Education & Employment Support (one to one mentoring)
• Supports Groups— ANEW, LGBT, GROW, Living with Addiction.

Outreach Services Available

Citizen Information Services – Wed 2-5pm

Roscommon Safelink– Domestic Abuse Support & Counselling – 071 9664200

If you are in danger, please try to use a safer computer that someone abusive does not have direct or remote (hacking) access to.

If you think your activities are being monitored, they probably are. Abusive people are often controlling and want to know your every move. You don’t need to be a computer programmer or have special skills to monitor someone’s computer and Internet activities – anyone can do it and there are many ways to monitor with programs like Spyware, keystroke loggers and hacking tools.

It is not possible to delete or clear all the “footprints” of your computer or online activities. If you are being monitored, it may be dangerous to change your computer behaviors such as suddenly deleting your entire Internet history if that is not your regular habit.

If you think you may be monitored on your home computer, be careful how you use your computer since an abuser might become suspicious. You may want to keep using the monitored computer for innocuous activities, like looking up the weather. Use a safer computer to research an escape plan, look for new jobs or apartments, bus tickets, or ask for help.

Email and Instant/Text Messaging (IM) are NOT safe or confidential ways to talk to someone about the danger or abuse in your life. If possible, please call a helpline instead. If you use email or IM, please use a safer computer and an account your abuser does not know about.

Computers can store a lot of private information about what you look at via the Internet, the emails and instant messages you send, internet-based phone and IP-TTY calls you make, web-based purchases and banking, and many other activities.

It might be safer to use a computer in a public library, at a trusted friend’s house, or an Internet Café.

This information was taken from NNEDV who have carried out considerable work on Safety and Technology. See www.nnedv.org for further details