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The first thing to do would be to call LFA – they will tell you if there is a support group currently in your area. If there isn’t and you want to start one, they will help you out – with training and everything. Christina aka Icicle – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Jason Blackstone wrote: > I would like to try and start a support group where I live, but don’t > know the frist thing about doing so. Need some help founding out what I > need to know to get started. I need the support myself beacuse this has > not been a good year for me. Thanks.
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I would like to try and start a support group where I live, but don’t know the frist thing about doing so. Need some help founding out what I need to know to get started. I need the support myself beacuse this has not been a good year for me. Thanks.
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On Mon, 07 Sep 1998 23:48:27 -0700, Jason Blackstone <jbl…@bc.sympatico.ca> wrote: >I would like to try and start a support group where I live, but don’t >know the frist thing about doing so. Need some help founding out what I >need to know to get started. I need the support myself beacuse this has >not been a good year for me. Thanks.
My first suggestion would be to call the nearest LFA Chapter and find out if they already have a group in your area. From there, if they do not, they can tell you how to start one in your area. And running it is not too terribly difficult from what I’ve seen. The LFA will provide pamphlets for you to make available to members of the group and they may even help you in pickign a location to hold the meetings (assuming you don’t want to do this in your home). An alternative, that would lack the LFA info, would be to approach an organization such as a local church or the YMCA and ask if they could provide facilities for such a meeting at minimal or no cost to you. I know many churches would do so. Then it’s a matter of getting the word out. I am already a member of a support group in my area (through the LFA) but also intend to write a pamphlet to be distributed at my church as an educational tool and as a source for people in the congregation to seek info on SLE, RA, Sjogrens, Scleroderma, etc. It’s a big church…. Anyway….. that’s about all I can come up with at this point. Good luck kc cat kcdoc…@ghg.net
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