Non-governmental organisations

Many nongovernmental organisations offer social counselling in the different cantons. You can ask for assistance e.g. by contacting the organisations listed below:

• Social counselling as well as further services and projects to foster integration, equal opportunities and participation of asylum seekers and refugees by Caritas
• Social counselling and further services to support the socially disadvantaged by HEKS
• Counselling and further services to support integration and access to work by SAH
• Information about lunch tables, german lessons, clothes, medical treatment or legal advice in a variety of Swiss cities and regions by the app I-Need

• Counselling services for persons in detention and their families by the association humanrights.ch

• Legal and social counselling for persons living and working in Switzerland without a residence permit by the sans-papier counselling offices

Here you can get confidential counselling free of charge:

• FIZ
  • Hohlstrasse 511, 8048 Zürich
  • [email protected]
  • Helpline: 044 436 90 00
  • Français, Italiano, English, Español, Portugês, Magyar, Română, български, русский, ไทย,             Shqiptar, தமிழ், українська

• Brava (Terre des Femmes Schweiz)
  • [email protected]
  • Helpline: 076 725 91 21 (Tuesday-Thursday 14-16)
  • Türkçe, Hrvatski, Af-Soomaali, தமிழ், ትግርኛ, Shqip

• Counselling for persons threatened with forced marriage, or in a forced marriage by Zwangsheirat.ch.

• Counselling and referral services for LGBTI asylum-seekers by Queeramnesty Switzerland
• Legal counselling for trans people by Transgender Network Switzerland (TGNS)

• Counselling and support for victims of human trafficking by FIZ Advocacy and Support for Migrant Women and Victims of Trafficking

• Counselling and support for victims of human trafficking by Astrée

• Individual assistance and counselling, e.g. concerning child protection and family tracing by the International Social Service Switzerland
• Missing persons | Tracing Service | Swiss Red Cross
• Counselling and referral services to partner organizations by The Alliance for the Rights of Migrant Children (ADEM)