{"id":667103,"date":"2026-10-27T19:34:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667103\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T19:34:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:34:43","slug":"marked-increase-in-cork-referrals-to-youth-mental-health-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667103\/","title":{"rendered":"Marked increase in Cork referrals to youth mental health charity\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Referrals to the Cork services of national youth\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.echolive.ie\/corknews\/arid-41923921.html\">mental health<\/a> charity Jigsaw increased by more than 30% in the first half of 2026 when compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Jigsaw provides free early intervention mental health services to children and young people aged 12\u201325.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Inward referrals to the charity\u2019s Cork service grew from 606 in the first six months of 2025 to 793 in the first half of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">New figures from Jigsaw show that inward referrals increased across Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Nationally, Jigsaw has provided 29,004 direct clinical contacts during the first six months of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Through a partnership with Jigsaw, retailer Applegreen helped raise vital funds and awareness for the charity\u2019s work through its October Barcode campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">It gave Applegreen customers an opportunity to help support Jigsaw\u2019s services, at a time when referrals are increasing across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Jigsaw CEO Joseph Duffy, said: \u201cThese latest figures paint a clear picture of the increasing pressures facing young people across Ireland, with a nearly 39% rise in demand for our services during the first half of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cEarly intervention is crucial when a young person is struggling with challenges like anxiety, loneliness, or depression, and ensuring free, timely support is available in their local communities is more important than ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cWe are incredibly grateful for Applegreen\u2019s support through their October Barcode campaign and previous campaigns which has directly funded increased services and supports.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Referrals to the Cork services of national youth\u00a0mental health charity Jigsaw increased by more than 30% in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[79,103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-667103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-cork-news","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}