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TBI Helpline 877-824-1766. We are here to help.
The purpose of a support group is to learn more about brain injury and available services by meeting with others who are facing or have faced similar challenges. Support groups provide the opportunity to:
1st and 3rd Mondays of each month, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Highland Community Center, 14224 Bel-Red Road, Bellevue
Contact: Co-facilitators Linda R Khosraw at (425) 820-0204
and Michael Given (425) 246-4215
Bellingham Evening Support Group:
2nd Thursday of each month, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Health Support Center
1212 Indian Street, Bellingham
Contact: Mike Warren, Advisor (360) 820-5021
Doctoral Student in Clinical Neuropsychology
3rd Saturday of each month, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Health Support Center
1212 Indian Street, Bellingham
Contact: Mike Warren, Advisor (360) 820-5021
Doctoral Student in Clinical Neuropsychology
People First of Palouse
Pullman: 2nd Thursday of each month 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Gladish Community & Cultural Center
115 NW State Street
Room 213
Contact: Donna Lowry 1-509-725-8123 or pfow@clarkston.com
2nd Thursday of each month from 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Harrison Silverdale Medical Center, 1780 Myhre Road (flagpole entrance), Silverdale
4th Wednesday of each month 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Harrison Annex, 750 Lebo Boulevard, Bremerton
Contact for both groups: Janice Worman OTR/L at(360) 744-6480
Colville - Stevens County:
3rd Tuesday; 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm (Survivors)
3rd Tuesday; 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (Caregivers)
The Meeting Place
887 South Walnut Colville, WA
Contact: Craig Sicilia at (509) 218-7982 or
Danny Holmes (509) 680-4634
www.tbisn.org
Coming Soon! Fall of 2010
Contact: Craig Sicilia (509) 218-7982
e-mail: imaginationman@msn.com
1st Tuesday, 5:00 pm – game night
2nd Tuesday, 5:00 pm – social group
3rd Tuesday, 5:00 pm – study group
4th Tuesday, 5:00 pm – social group
For meeting location, please contact:
Larry Carroll at (360) 864-4341 or Ann Grabhorn at (360) 983-3166
3rd Monday of each month; 11:30-1:30 pm
Big Bend Community College
ATEC Building
Contact: Jennifer McCarthy - 509-766-1907
2nd Tuesday of each month; 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Providence St. Peter Hospital Campus, Emilie Gamelin Pavilion, Third Floor Classroom,
410 Providence Lane, Olympia
Cell Phone # 360.878.7240
www.home.comcast.net/~obisg/site/?/home/
e-mail: obisg@comcast.net
Pullman:
3rd Tuesday of each month, 7 - 9 p.m.
Pullman Regional Hospital, Conference Room B
835 SE Bishop Boulevard, Pullman
Contact: Alice Brown - 509-338-4507
1st and 3rd Thursdays from 6-7:30 p.m.
Good Samaritan Hospital in the Mt. Rainier Room, Puyallup
Contact: Ret. Sgt. Ed and Sheri Van Veldhouse at (253) 841-9635 or PuyallupTBIGroup@yahoo.com
Website: www.puyalluptbigroup.com
Quad Cities:
2nd Saturday of each month, 9:00 am
Tri State Memorial Hospital 1221 Highland Avenue, Clarkston
Contact: Deby Smith at (208) 305-4789
msdebys@yahoo.com
Telephone Support only, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm.
Contact: Andrea Simmons at (360) 378-9541
2nd Thursday of the month, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Frontier Room Restaurant/Belltown
2203 1st Avenue, Seattle
4th Thursday of the month, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Casey or Mother Joseph Room, inside the cafeteria,
at Swedish Medical Center/Cherry Hill Campus
500 17th Avenue, SeattleContact for both groups: Jennifer Peloquin (206) 938-6363 or Zsche Navarre at (206) 818-2050 http://cherryhillsupportgroup.blogspot.com/
Seattle Wallingford TBI Survivors
Yoga Class for TBI Survivors: Encouraging social support, exercise, meditation and new member participation!
Every Friday, from 4-5 p.m.
Room 302, Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside N. Seattle
Contact: Janet Novinger at (206) 547-2526
First Thursday of Every month From 12:00pm to 1:00pm
at the Harborview Medical Center in the Maleng Building Room MB 112.
For people who have had a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Family friends and caregivers are invited to attend.
Contact Shannon McKeever (206) 744-8139 for more information.
NEW TBI SUPPORT GROUP!
Young Adults With TBI
University of Washington Medical Center
1959 Northeast Pacific Street; Room E212
Seattle, WA 98195
First Meeting-August 11, 2010; 6:00 pm. – 7:30 p.m.
Meetings to be held on the second Wednesday of each month, from 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Contact: Silas James (1-206-685-8354 or Silast@u.washington.edu)
Seattle/Wallingford:
Mild TBI Survivor Group
3rd Tuesday of every month, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202
4649 Sunnyside N. Seattle
Contact: Janet Novinger at (206) 547-2526
Meeting on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, 3:00 to 4:30 pm.
VFW site at 169 East Washington Street, Sequim WA 98382
Contacts: Stephen Stratton (360) 582-9502 (please leave message)
NEW LOCATION
2nd Tuesday of each month, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Creekside Retirement Community
Theatre Room
400 Gilkey Road; Burlington, WA
Contact: Karen Furney (425)-268-2934
3rd Thursday of each month, 6:30 – 8:30 pm,
Stevens Hospital, 21601 76th Avenue W, Edmonds, WA
West side of the cafeteria on the 2nd floor of the main hospital building
Contact: Jeff Slater at (425) 466-0900
Coming Soon! September, 2010
Spokane Community College and Spokane Falls Community College Institute for Extended Learning
TBI Advocacy Club & TBI Self-Development & Leadership
Time and room to be announced at a later date
Contact: Craig Sicilia: 1-509-218-7982 and/or Gail Tumlinson at gtumlinson@iel.spokane.edu
Website: www.tbisn.org
4th Wednesday of each month, 6:30-8:30 pm
Spokane County Library, 12004 East Main, Spokane Valley
Contact: Craig Sicilia at (509) 218-7982 or Toby Brown 509-868-5388
Website: www.tbisn.org
2nd Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m.
St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, 711 S Cowley Street, Room 200 Spokane
Contact: Craig Sicilia (509) 218-7982 and/or Melissa Gray's e-mail: melissagray.mhc@live.
Website: www.biawaspokane.org
4th Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m.
St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, 711 S Cowley Street, Room 200 Spokane
Contacts: Craig Sicilia (509) 218-7982 and/or Melissa Gray at melissagray.mhc@live.com
Website: www.biawaspokane,org
2nd and 4th Tuesdays 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Downtown Public Library, 900 West Main Spokane
Contact: Craig Sicilia at (509) 218-7982
For current schedule, please call:
Contact: Craig Sicilia at (509) 218-7982 or
Web page: http://www.biawaspokane.org/
3rd Monday of each month, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Stanwood Community and Senior Center, 7430 276th Street NW, Stanwood
Contact: Karen Furney at (425) 268-2934
2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
TACID Center, 6315 South 19th Street, Tacoma
Contact: Penny Condoll (253) 426-5735 or email tbisg@comcast.net
Web site: https://home.comcast.net/~tbisg/
Tri Cities:
1st Wednesday of each month, 4 – 5 pm
The Neurological Resource Center, 712 Swift Blvd, #1, Richland
Contact: Kathryn Armstrong 509-947-0643 or
(509) 943-8455 or tnrc@kadlecmed.org
Vancouver:
2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month, 2:00 pm
disAbility Resources of Southwest Washington, 2700 NE Andresen, Suite D5, Vancouver
Contact: Elton Busby at (360) 694-6790 or e-mail: disabilityresources@darsw.com
Website: www.darsw.com
Monthly Phone Conferences Contact: Craig Sicilia at (509) 218-7982
Every Sunday: On-line Chat Nights 6:00 p.m.
Website: www.tbisn.org
Walla Walla:
Meeting canceled until further notice. For more information
please call 1-877-824-1766
St. Mary Medical Center, Mother Joseph Room
401 W. Poplar Street, Walla Walla
Whidbey Island – Coupeville:
1st Monday of each month, 6:30 – 8:30 pm,
Whidbey General Hospital – Board Room
101 N Main Street, Coupeville WA
Contact: Arlene/Allen House at (360) 929-9196 or e-mail rwriter2000@gmail.net
Yakima:
3rd Wednesday of each month, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm,
Yakima Regional Medical & Cardiac Center, 110 S 9th Avenue, Yakima, 5th Floor Conference Room
Contact: Teresa Shervey (509) 573-3481 or emailteresa.shervey@hma.com
NOTE: This group does not meet in July or August.
We meet the third Saturday of each month in the Casey Room at Swedish Hospital's Providence Campus at 17th & Jefferson. The room is located in the dining room on the main floor. We meet from 1-3 pm & welcome friends, families & those living with hydrocephalus. Our contact information follows: Kim Andersen 206-324-4084 and Diana Pozzi 206-282-6107
422 N. Pine Street, Ellensburg.
For individuals with Traumatic Brain Injuries or similar disorders:
2nd Monday of every month, Noon - 1:30 p.m. Bring brown bag lunch.
4th Thursday of every month, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Coffee and support.
3rd Wednesday of every month, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Caregiving and family support issues.
Contact: Lori Poliski/Paul Gross (425) 482-0470
TACID Center, 6315 S. 19th St. Tacoma.
Contact: Kathryn Fischer at 253-584-2261
OTR/L, SibShop Coordinator at Good Samaritan Hospital:
402 – 15th Ave. S.E., Ste. 100, Puyallup, WA 98372. We welcome all typically developing brothers and sisters, kids and teenagers who have a sib with a disability or chronic health condition. To register, call Colleen at 253-697-5225. For Sibshop questions, call Raphielle Chynoweth at 253 848-6661, ext. 5245. Email Raphielle at raphiellechynoweth@goodsamhealth.org
2142 10 Ave W. 206-283-3300
Karen Roe 206-782-2232
Seattle, WA.8119
1st Thursday, 7:00 p.m., Providence Faith & Healing Center, Room 12.
Contact: Trish 509-235-5966.
3rd Thursday, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., Room 200, St. Luke’s Rehab Institute
711 S., Cowley in Spokane. Contact: Patsy Sites at 509-838-4771.
2nd Thursday of the month, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at TACID Center at 6315 So 19th Street in Tacoma. Contact: Linda Thompson (253) 472-0857.
WA State Parent to Parent:
Contact: Susan Atkins at (425) 641-7504 for county and location nearest to you or email statep2p@earthlink.net
Facilitated by Susan Howell, LICSW (509) 664-4868, ext. 5983
This support group is open to any Stroke and Brain Injury Survivor and their family members or caregivers. This group meets the 3rd Wed. of each month, at WVMC, conference room A, from 1:30 to 3:00pm. See address below here.
WVMC
820 N. Chelan Ave.
Wenatchee WA 98801
3rd Friday each month at noon (No July or August meetings) St. Luke’s Rehab Institute at 711 S., Cowley in Spokane.
Contact: Chris Salsbury at (253) 328-8534
3411 South Alaska Street,
Seattle, WA 98118
(206) 721-4422
Library 2021 – 9th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121-2783
206-615-0200
Ms. Morhman is very knowledgeable of the blind
and organizations that work with the blind.
Sponsored by Tacoma Metro Park District. 3rd Wednesday of each month at 11:30am - 2:00pm
South Park Community Center at 4851 S. Tacoma Way in Tacoma. Contact: Kathy at 253-591-5314.
Meets the 1st and 3rd Thursdays from 6 - 7:30 p.m. at Good Samaritan Hospital in the Mt. Rainier Room Facilitators are Sheri and Ed Van Veldhouse.
Contact: sherivanv@yahoo.com or 253-841-9635
Year long outdoor recreational activities i.e. cross-country downhill, biking, hiking, canoeing, day camps & more.
Admin Office at 1621-114th Avenue S.E., Ste. 132, Bellevue. Call any program director at 425-462-0978. info@skiforall.org
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