This informal and friendly group offers those who are caring for loved ones a chance to learn new ways to care and care for themselves from others walking in the same shoes.  For details about their monthly meetings, call the parish nurse at MPUMC at 704/376-8584 extension 4836 any weekday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Health and other professionals are asked to mail their information to the church.   (Click for overview of Caregivers resources)

A monthly meeting for providers of home based daycare for children where they can share concerns and be with other adults.  Call a leader of the group at 704/504-8441 Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to noon.  (Click for overview of Caregivers resources)

A peer-led group for people with a chronic illness as well as for their family and friends.  Call a leader of the group at 599-9391 at any reasonable daytime or early evening hour. (Click for overview of Caregivers resources)

Adult Care and Share (1998) (1429)
Adult Children of Aging Parents (2004) (925)
Calvary Church Caregivers Group (2002)  (1402)
The Caregivers Support Group at Selwyn Life Center (1998)  (1243)
Family Matters of the First United Methodist Church (1998) (1327)
Well Spouse Foundation (2001) (1392)

This service provides comprehensive data and referral assistance for nonprofit and government resources in the NC counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, and Anson counties and in or near the city of Mooresville, NC.  If you are calling on a landline or residential phone in one of those counties, dial 2-1-1.  If that fails, if you are calling on a cell phone, or if you are calling from anywhere else in NC, call 866/744-7778.  For calls from out of NC, use their local number of 704/377-1100. Although they are open 24 hours a day, you may wish to call weekdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. for non-emergency questions.

The friendly staff at this full service library can help you research any medical topic using their up-to-date computers, databases, journals and books.  No previous research experience or medical knowledge is required. Click here for details or call them at 704-384-6393.

MedLinePlus

This service of the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health is one of the better one-stop shops for beginning your search on the internet for medical information.  For those of you who live in Mecklenburg and Union counties in NC, we recommend that you contact the Health Library for more personal assistance from the experts there in searching for reliable medical information. Click here for their details.

Click to link to any of these lists of national groups: 

The Self-Help Sourcebook OnLine Index
The Genetic Alliance
NORD (National Organization for Rare Diseases) Database

Click here to branch to the American Self-Help Clearinghouse listing of toll-free phone numbers for a wide variety of topics.