Address: 375 E. McFarlan St., Dover, NJ 07801
Phone: 1-800-367-6274 or 973-989-1122
Website: www.njgroups.org

For almost 30 years, our non-profit, Statewide, State-funded "NJ Self-Help Group Clearinghouse" has been providing both residents and professionals with descriptions, meeting locations & phone contacts for the now over 6,750 local community support groups that meet throughout NJ, and about 1,100 national, online, & model peer support networks. In addition to helping people find support groups to meet their needs, the Clearinghouse also helps those interested in joining with others to start a needed new peer support group.  

So, especially if you have any relative, friend, or neighbor who feels "all alone" with their particular problem, please let them know of the many groups of people who "have been there," and can often help them. Just give them our our toll-free helpine, 1-800-367-6274, more easily remembered as 1-800-FOR- M.A.S.H. (Mutual Aid Self-Help).

Click here to download a PDF document of the listing of community support groups in Hudson County.


MENTAL HEALTH

• Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) persons with depression or bipolar depression (Jersey City)
• Youth Partnership for youth with emotional challenges (Jersey City)
• F.S.O. - "I Need You, You Need Me"
• Parent Group parents of children emotional and/or behavioral challenges (Jersey City)
• NAMI Hudson County Advocacy and support for family and friends of those diagnosed with mental illness (Jersey City)
• NAMI NJ en Espanol of Hudson County Spanish-speaking family and friends of those with a mental illness and for mental health consumers who attend (Union City).
• Hudson County Self-Help Center Consumer-run self-help center providing  socialization, recreation, and advocacy for mental health consumers (Jersey City)
• Schizophrenics Anonymous for persons with any schizophrenia-related disorder (Jersey City).  

FAMILY / PARENTING

• Parents Anonymous for parents under stress to improve relationships with their children (Jersey City)
• Separated, Divorced & Bereaved Catholics (various meetings)
• DIGS (Dads Involved Group) for fathers (Jersey City)
• “I Need You, You Need Me” Group for parents & caregivers of children who have an emotional and/or behavioral challenge (Jersey City)
• Separated, Divorced and Bereaved Catholics (various meeting sites in the county)
• Group forming for Divorce if others are willing to help out.  

ADDICTIONS

• Alcoholics Anonymous (various meetings in the County – some bilingual)
• Al-Anon Family Groups families & friends of alcoholics (various)
• Narcotics Anonymous drug addiction (various)
• Nar-Anon Family Group families of drug addicts (various)
• Double Trouble mental health consumers with an addiction (Jersey City)
• Sexaholics Anonymous sexually self-destructive thinking & behavior (Jersey City)
• Hoboken S.A.A. for those with compulsive sexual behavior problems (Hoboken)
• Overeaters Anonymous compulsive overeating (various)
• Gamblers Anonymous compulsive gambling (Jersey City group is bilingual).
  

BEREAVEMENT

• Hudson Hospice Bereavement Group recent loss (Bayonne)
• Bereavement Support (Jersey City)
• Hudson Hospice Children's Bereavement Support Group adults and children (Bayonne)
• Rainbows, Inc. children and adolescents who are grieving a loss due to death, divorce or abandonment. A support group for parents meets at the same time in a separate room at the same place (Jersey City)
• Separated, Divorced and Bereaved Catholics (various group meetings)
• Pet Loss & Bereavement Group (Jersey City)
• Motherless Daughters
  

HEALTH

• Alzheimer's Family Support Group caregivers (Secaucus)
• Beacon Society AIDS support (Hoboken)
• AIDS/HIV+ Support Group for anyone infected/affected by AIDS or HIV+ (Jersey City)
• Diabetes Support Group (Bayonne)
• Living Beyond HIV gay men who are HIV+ (Jersey City)
• Lupus Foundation of America patients & families (Jersey City)
• National Multiple Sclerosis Society Support Groups for persons with MS and their families (Jersey City)
• Turner Syndrome Society patients and families (Secaucus)
• Laparoscopic Gastric Band or Gastric Bypass (Bayonne).

DISABILITIES

• SCILS (Senior Community Independent Living Services) – bilingual support group for persons ages 55+ who are blind or visually impaired persons (various meeting sites)
• Adjustment to Vision Loss visual impairment (Jersey City & Secaucus)
• Family Support Group (bilingual) family and friends of people with developmental disabilities (Union City)
• Autism NJ for parents of children with autism (Bayonne; & a Spanish-speaking group in Union City).

MISCELLANEOUS

• Women's Project Groups women self-esteem, domestic violence, employment and stress management (Jersey City)
• Healthy Aging in Jersey City wellness workshops, health screening, alcohol & substance prevention persons 55+ (Jersey City)
• Youth Connect groups for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and questioning youth (Jersey City)
• GLITZ (Girls Living In the Transgender Zone) transgendered women (Jersey City)
• Jobseekers Group forming if others are willing to help out in getting it started (Jersey City).       

SMALL SAMPLE OF NJ STATEWIDE SUPPORT GROUPS & NETWORKS

• ALDA-NJ (Association of Late Deafened Adults) adults who lose hearing late in life.  
• Acoustic Neuroma Association of NJ support for pre and post operative patients.
• Organizacion del Mal de Parkinson www.maldeparkinson.org (Spanish-speaking Parkinson Disease group).
• Cult Information Service Group mutual support for families and friends of cult members.
• F.A.C.E.-NJ (Father's And Children's Equality) non-custodial fathers & mothers seeking equal visitation rights after parental separation.
• NJ Unschoolers Network parents who educate their children at home.
• Little People of America Garden State Chapter for short-statured adults & parents of short-statured children.
• Protective Parents mutual support for non-offending parents of children who were sexually or physically abused.
• MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) local groups for Christian mothers of preschoolers.
• NJ Melanoma Support & Awareness Group for melanoma patients and families.
• NJ Self-Advocacy Project local support groups for people with developmental disabilities.
• NJ CF Family Network - parents of children with cystic fibrosis Parents of Blind Children peer support for parents of bind or visually impaired children.
• Parents of Prader-Willi Syndrome Children NJ families meet twice a year.
• Shingles Telephone Support Group NJ phone network provides support and encouragement.
• And MANY MORE. And, if you have Internet access, there are many online groups as well.  

No group in your local area or for your situation?  
Why Not Join with Others to Help Start One?  We’ll Help You!

The NJ Self-Help Group Clearinghouse provides free help to those interested in joining with others to start any needed new type of community or online support group. We provide suggestions, free how-to guides, networking support, and more.

So, for help in either finding or forming any Mutual Aid Self-Help group in NJ, call us at:
1-800-367-6274, remember it as 1-800-FOR-M.A.S.H