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Provides 12-step support groups for persons dealing with alcoholism. Offers a 24 hour hotline for persons in recovery or wanting to begin the process of alcohol recovery.

Offers a Zoom support group for loved ones and/or caregivers of adults with severe mental illness. Participants connect with others with similar challenges and learn about community resources. Facilitated by a licensed clinical social worker and a trained National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Family-to-Family teacher.

Provides information, referral to resources, education, and support for caregivers and individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Services include online and phone-based support groups for caregivers and people in the early stages of dementia, care planning by phone, and online education and training for family caregivers.

Due to the current pandemic, support group is meeting via Zoom. Provides a weekly support group for transitional aged youth with mental illness.

Provides support for caregivers and families of mentally ill adults.

Provides meetings for local twelve-step groups for those wanting to recover from cocaine addition. The groups are offered worldwide by the national association. Cocaine Anonymous is a fellowship of, by, and for cocaine addicts seeking recovery. Friends and family of cocaine addicts should contact Co-Anon Family Groups, a fellowship dedicated to their much different needs.

Provides information and referral on local resources and events for people and families concerned with Muscular Dystrophy and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) including summer camps, clinics, support groups, clinical trials, latest research, events and more. Website has extensive information.

Provides a free program available to any family with a child under 6 in Contra Costa County. The program provides free parent community groups (twice monthly) and home-based support for up to six weeks. Home-based support can be in person or on video, and is specific to everyday moments in a family's life: i.e. navigating nap time, dealing with tantrums, helping with playtime or any everyday moment. A specialist works one-on-one with the family, to help discover how to support the child's development in any moment together. Everyday Moments Home-Based Support is provided by specialists from We Care Services for Children, Early Childhood Mental Health Program, and the Lynn Center. Parent community groups are provided by C.O.P.E. Family Support Center. The parent community groups are held twice per month online, where parents can learn about child development and share stories, wisdom, and ask questions. Groups offer parent-to-parent networking, and learning about ways to support the child. Attend only one, or attend the groups regularly, all free to any Contra Costa County resident with a child under six.

Offers no-cost grief support groups to high school-age teens (15-18) grieving a death by suicide.

Provides psychosocial and educational support to cancer patients and their caregivers as an adjunct to conventional medical treatment. Offers a variety of support groups, educational workshops, stress reduction classes, social events and programs available for children of cancer patients. Support groups and healthy lifestyle educational workshops available in Spanish. Some services are offered in Antioch, Vallejo, Castro Valley, and San Ramon.

All groups meet virtually using zoom. Provides support group for families and friends of individuals with ALS; group offers discussion, outside speakers, and ALS resources.

Provides support groups for family and friends living with a compulsive gambler or who grew up with a compulsive gambler. Website has information on compulsive gambling and literature support. Supports groups are held throughout the US and internationally.

Provide a virtual peer-led support, and social program for LGBTQ+ seniors. Offers a safe environment where all can be a part of a community that welcomes diversity and individuality. Provides case management to help seniors connect to social support services.

Offers no-cost grief support groups to adults and children in the community. Provides a variety of support groups for adults (18+) as well as The Bridge program, a grief support group for children and teens.

Provides individual counseling, LGBT counseling and anger management groups. Offers affinity group spaces for LGBTQ and gender expansive individuals.

Offers support groups for cancer patients, family members and their families.

Provides domestic violence helpline for domestic violence survivors, including South Asian women. Services include crisis counseling, safety planning, resource navigation and referral services, economic empowerment classes to develop leadership and professional skills, and support groups. Partners with Family Justice Center to provide virtual workshops.

Provides support group for parents of adolescents and transitional aged youth diagnosed with mood or neurobiological disorders. Offers ongoing education and support at monthly meetings held at the Lafayette Orinda Presbyterian Church.

Provides emotional support for parents who are mourning the death of a child. Support group is facilitated by trained volunteers.

Provides domestic violence support group and case management for women.

Offers a variety of online support groups for individuals with a liver disease and caregivers. Website offers extensive information.

Provides support group online.

Provides a mutual support group for parents, families and friends of LGBTQ+ people and LGBTQ+ people themselves. Also organizes and supports local events. Promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer persons, their families and friends through: support, education and advocacy.

Provides a support group for family and friends of people suffering of an eating disorder.

Provides drop-in socials on the first and third Monday of every month, see website for details. Hosts a peer support group at the Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County in Concord, open to anyone interested in discussing issues of gender identity in a safe, supportive atmosphere. See website for event details.