Community support groups
Some things are easier to say in a room where everyone already knows.
Four groups, running in Pike County. Two are free. All of them are facilitated, closed-enrollment, and built so the same faces come back.
A support group is not therapy, and it is not a substitute for it. It is something different and sometimes more useful: proof that you are not the only one.
Every group here is facilitated by or supervised by a licensed clinical social worker, runs on closed enrollment so the group stays a group, and holds confidentiality as its first rule. You can come and say nothing for the first three sessions. People do.
Schedules are confirmed directly with the people on each group's list — say which group you want below and we will tell you when it next meets and where.
Our most-requested group
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
You are doing a second round of parenting with none of the recognition and almost none of the help — often without legal custody, often on a fixed income, often while grieving the situation that made it necessary. This group exists because kinship caregiving is one of the most common and least supported caregiving situations in Pike County. We talk about school enrollment and guardianship paperwork, about the anger you are not supposed to feel, and about how to parent a child who is also mourning.
Who it's for
Grandparents and kinship caregivers raising children they did not plan to raise
Cost
Free
Format
In-person, Pike County, Alabama · monthly
Childcare
Tell us what you need and we will try to arrange it
Also running
Three more groups.
Trauma survivors group
$45 / session, sliding scale available
Adults recovering from abuse, assault, or long-term harm
A closed, facilitated group for people who are tired of translating their experience for people who have not lived it. You never have to tell the whole story to belong here. Facilitated by a licensed clinical social worker.
Teen group
$45 / session, sliding scale available
Ages 13–17
For young people carrying more than anyone has noticed — including the ones quietly holding a household together. We are clear with teens upfront about exactly what does and does not get shared with a parent.
Caregiver burnout group
Free
Anyone caring full-time for an aging parent, disabled family member, or chronically ill partner
Care work is invisible until it breaks something. This group is two hours a month where you are not the one doing the caring.
What is said in the room stays in the room. That is not a suggestion — it is the condition of being in it, and we go over it out loud at every first session.
Group confidentiality
Join a group
Tell us which group, and what would make it possible to come.
We will contact you with the next meeting date and location. Nothing is committed until you show up.
· Two of the four groups are completely free.
· A sliding scale is available on the paid groups. Just say so.
· If transportation or childcare is the barrier, tell us. It is usually solvable.
Support group interest
If you are in crisis, please do not use this form.
Forms are checked during business hours. Call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline right now — free, confidential, 24/7.