Health Support Groups

Provides peer support and short-term counselling for individuals who are affected by pancreatic cancer.

One-on-one peer support: Provides trained volunteer-run online one-on-one peer support via phone or video call, offering emotional support and other resources.

Short-term online counselling: Provides short-term online counselling with a professional counsellor to help navigate the mental toll of one's medical journey.

In addition to one-on-one peer support, a monthly support group is provided as an opportunity to meet with others to form a community based on their shared experiences and unique challenges.

Both programs are offered in partnership with Wellspring.

Provides a virtual support group for parents of a child living with vision loss, in a more rural community. Common questions and concerns are covered during the meeting. Topics include:

• Inclusive activities
• Advocacy
• Transportation
• Financial assistance
• School inclusion
• Friendships and more

Provides a nine-week virtual group program for individuals who are newly diagnosed or adjusting to an epilepsy to learn skills and strategies for social and community adjustment with active seizure conditions. Learning modules include:

• Epilepsy and medical Issues
  
• Compensating for cognitive challenges
  
• Getting the most out of community Living
  
• Managing Epilepsy Care
  
• Effective communication about Epilepsy
  
• Health and wellbeing
  

Provides online support groups for individuals living with pain.

Provide a professionally facilitated online support group where older adults can connect with peers facing similar cancer-related challenges, share experiences as desired, access emotional support, and exchange practical coping strategies and resources. Common topics include:

• Managing work and career while undergoing treatment
• Talking to children and supporting family through a diagnosis
• Coping with financial stress
• Handling relationships and social changes
• Managing fear, anxiety, and feelings of isolation

Provides a professionally facilitated online support group for individuals with pancreatic cancer to share experiences, access emotional support, discuss common challenges, and learn coping strategies and available resources to enhance well-being and quality of life.

Offers a national one-on-one peer mentoring program that connects individuals with Parkinson's and their care partners to trained volunteer mentors. Includes:

• Shared lived experience
• Helping reduce isolation
• Building resilience
• Offering guidance

Meetings can take place virtually, in person, or in hybrid formats.