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New Jersey's Support Groups by "Terrence Seamon" thseamon

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Ed Madara of St Clare's in Dover sent me some links to the many peer support groups here in NJ.

Please share this info.

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Madara, Ed" <EdMadara@saintclares.org>
To: "thseamon@yahoo.com" <thseamon@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 2:52 AM
Subject: NJ's 6,750+ Peer Support Groups

Dear Terrence,

For learning about the community support groups in your NJ county:

http://www.mededfund.org/NJgroups/Groups_By_County.htm

For just some of the types of NJ groups:

http://www.mededfund.org/NJgroups/Groups_By_Type.htm

For how we help those seeking to start new groups:

http://www.mededfund.org/NJgroups/How_we_help_people_start_gps.pdf

Any questions?

Best to you in your continued good works,

- Ed

Edward J. Madara, M.S., Director 973-989-1122, x15
NJ & American Self-Help Group Clearinghouses
Saint Clare's Behavioral Health Services
375 E. McFarlan St., Dover, NJ
www.selfhelpgroups.org
"Helping people find & form their own community support groups throughout NJ for over 31 years."
For help in finding or starting any self-help group, in NJ just call our group information helpline 1-800-367-6274,
more easily remembered as 1-800-FOR-M.A.S.H. (Mutual Aid Self-Help). Or outside NJ, call 973-989-1122.

Our NJ Clearinghouse provides descriptions and contacts for over 6,750 local community support groups in NJ, and over 1,250 national, online, and model support networks for most any illness, disability, addiction, loss of a loved one, parenting situation, caregiver concern, traumatic experience, or any one of hundreds of other stressful life situations - primarily through our toll-free helpline, 1-800-367-6274. Currently, at our NJ website, www.NJgroups.org<http://www.njgroups.org/> we provide contacts for over two thousand NJ mental health, addiction, and abuse survivior support groups (click on "Find a Group" for those listings). But you can always phone us toll-free for info on any of the thousands of other NJ and national groups, in NJ. For professionals and others interested in knowing about the wide variety of groups available, we have previously published an annual "Self-Help Support Group Directory: Your Guide to Local New Jersey, National, and
Online Groups," The Kindle digital version of our 704-page, May, 2011 Directory may still be viewed at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006ZBX2Q2 Just click on "Look Inside," to see sample pages. A fair number of public libraries have obtained copies that can be readily viewed in their Reference section. But instead of a Directory, we plan and hope to have all our NJ group information available online by the end of next year. For what groups and resource handouts are available now online, see: http://goo.gl/7uo07