This educational and mutual support group focuses on helping people with any form of arthritis lead a healthier life.  It meets in the mornings once a month and is co-sponsored by St. Gabriel Catholic Church and Arthritis Patient Services.  For details, call a member of the group at 847-5280 Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. or call Arthritis Patient Services at 704/331-4878 Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or on Friday from 9 a.m. to noon.  (Click for overview of Arthritis resources)

APS previously sponsored a group for adults with any form of arthritis as well as a group for people with JRA (juvenile rheumatoid arthritis).  Both are current dormant due to low attendance.  Call APS at 331-4878 Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or on Friday from 9 a.m. to noon if you have interest in either of these groups.

Young Adult Arthritis Group (1998) (1055,722)
Arthritis Support Group (Bonitz) (2003) (1644,722)

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.