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Self Help
Published 3/21/2008 in News : Area coverage
For a support group to be included in the following list, call The Telegram at 276-6862 Extension 242 or (800) 475-8600. For more information about other support groups in the state, call the Self-Help Network of Kansas at (316) 978-3843 or (800) 445-0116, or visit the Web site www.selfhelpnetwork.wichita.edu.
Domestic violence
Family Crisis Services (HEART), Garden City. Support group for those in abusive relationships, shelter for domestic violence victims, and rape crisis support. Transportation and child care provided.
Contact: 275-2018; Referral Hotline, 275-5911; (800) 275-0535.
FAX: 275-2761.
Substance abuse
Al-Anon Family Groups. For families and friends of alcoholics/addicts.
Location/time: 8 p.m. Wednesdays at the Warren Hotel (back entrance, west door, take elevator to the second floor); and 7 p.m. Sunday at the Methodist Church, Main Street and Kansas Avenue (enter at east door).
Tuesday Night Get-Along Group. A 12-Step recovery for co-dependents and adult children of alcoholics.
Contact: Jim Good, 275-7365.
Location/time: Community Congregational Church, Hazel Street (across from Garden City Public Library), Mondays at 6:30 p.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous Hotline. Information for AA groups in the Garden City area.
Contact: Hotline, 272-5623.
Health
Alzheimer's Support Group.
Location/time: 2 to 4 p.m. on the third Monday of each month in the main parlor of First United Methodist Church, Main Street and Kansas Avenue, in Garden City (use entrance off of Main Street).
Contact: Mary Seibert, 276-8933.
TBI Support Group (Traumatic Brain Injury). To aid and support people with brain injuries and their families.
Contact: Logie Asebedo, (620) 384-5048.
Location/time: Center of Independent Living, 111 Grant Ave., 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday.
Builders of Hope Cancer Support Group. Open to all patients, family and/or friends touched by this disease.
Contacts: Builders of Hope mentor hotline, 290-3970; Chaplain Remy Ekweariri, 272-2513.
Location/time: Downtown Vision, 413 N. Main St., first Sunday of each month at 2 p.m.
Builders of Hope mentor program/hotline. Providing information, support and hope by matching newly diagnosed patients with those who are survivors of the same or similar condition, providing comfort and education.
Contact: Builders of Hope mentor hotline, 290-3970, available seven days a week.
Central Kansas Polio Survivors Support Group. For survivors and others touched by the disease.
Location/time: 10 a.m. to noon on the first Saturday of each month in the conference rooms on the lower level of Hutchinson Hospital in Hutchinson.
Social groups
Garden City Singles. Support for people who are single or are experiencing divorce, separation or widowhood.
Contact: Betty Schaffer at 275-9792.
Location/time: Senior Center of Finney County, 907 N. 10th St., third Saturday of each month at 7:30 p.m.
Gay Men's Support Group. Weekly support group meeting.
Location/time: Area Mental Health Center, 2101 W. Highway 50 Bypass, Dodge City, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. each Tuesday.
Weight loss
Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS). Nonprofit organization providing weight-loss support since 1948.
Contact/more information: 1-800-932-8677 or e-mail Bednasek@networksplus.net.
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