Support Groups
FCA facilitates and sponsors several types of support groups, both in person and online.
Caregiver Online Support Group
This is an unmoderated group for families, partners, and other caregivers who want a safe place to discuss the stresses, challenges, and rewards of providing care for adults with disorders such as Alzheimer’s, stroke, brain injury, and other chronic debilitating health conditions.
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This group is in e-mail format. Participants send and receive e-mail to take part in discussions. You can receive your posts all together, in one delivery each day, or you can receive them one-by-one, as they are sent. The choice is yours. It’s fun, easy, and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To subscribe to Caregiver Online Support Group, complete the form below and click the submit button.
African American Caregiver Support Group
The African American Support Group meets online Tuesdays from 4:00 to 5:30 pm.
Hosted by FCA Family Consultant Norell Wheeler, MPH / MBH, the support group provides a safe space for caregivers to build community, discuss caregiving topics, and share healing self-care practices.
Family caregivers of Black/African descent who care for someone with adult onset neurodegenerative disorder or who have a chronic health condition and are over the age of 60 are invited to participate.
For more information and to sign up, send an email to nwheeler@caregiver.org
LGBTQ+ Community Support: Caregiving for our Families and Friends
This online support group LGBTQ+ Community Support Caregiving for our Families and Friends offers a place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender caregivers of adults with chronic health problems to discuss the unique issues of caring for their loved ones.
Solicitations and advertisements of ANY kind; academic, commercial, journalistic, or any other reason, are STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
Are you conducting a Research study or Clinical trial? Please click here.
This group is in e-mail format. Participants send and receive e-mail to take part in discussions. You can receive your posts all together, in one delivery each day, or you can receive them one-by-one, as they are sent. The choice is yours. It’s fun, easy, and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To subscribe to LGBTQ+ Community Online Support Group, complete the form below and click the submit button.
LGBTQ Caregiver Support Group
We welcome a diverse group of LGBTQ caregivers for a new monthly support group! Join us via Zoom as we discuss the stresses, challenges, and variety of experiences that come with providing care in our community. This group is for caregivers of those with a variety of illnesses, disorders, and challenges. If you are caring for someone with dementia-specific challenges, we encourage you to check out the LGBTQ Caregivers of Those With Dementia support group.
For San Francisco Bay Area or California caregivers of older adults or those with adult-onset cognitive or neurological conditions like dementia, stroke, or Parkinson’s.
For more information or to register, contact Adriana Sanchez: asanchez@caregiver.org.
In partnership with Openhouse
When: 3rd Wednesdays of the month, 4 to 5:30 p.m. (PT), via Zoom
Young Adult Caregivers Support Group
Designed for family caregivers under the age of 40 who are caring for someone who is:
- 60 or older with any diagnosis, or
- between the ages of 18-59 with an adult-onset cognitive or neurological impairment.
Meets online via Zoom twice monthly (1st and 3rd Thursdays) from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The Zoom login will be provided with registration.
Participants should live in the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, or Santa Clara counties).
To register, contact Intake at (415) 434-3388 x331; bayareaintake@caregiver.org.
East Bay Support Group (FULL)
This is a monthly group serves caregivers who are caring for someone who is:
- 60 or older with any diagnosis, or
- between the ages of 18-59 with an adult-onset cognitive or neurological impairment.