Online Support Groups Near Little Rock
Whether you are in North Little Rock, Conway, Benton, Bryant or somewhere else in central Arkansas, ShareWell has live online support groups for parents and families living around a child's illness. Families from every corner of the state come to Little Rock for the children's hospital and the medical center, and many of them are a long way from home with nobody to lean on.
Every group meets online by live video, so you can join from home.
These online groups start during the day and evening in Central time, so they fit a day near Little Rock.
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When your child is the patient
Little Rock is where Arkansas goes when a child is seriously ill. Families from the Delta, the Ozarks and the river towns drive in for diagnoses, surgeries and long stays, and some end up renting near the hospital for months while the other parent keeps a job and the other children going back home. Even for families who live in Pulaski County, a sick child reorders everything: the marriage, the money, the siblings who feel forgotten, the job that cannot be kept. Parents learn the medical vocabulary and forget how to talk about anything else. Grandparents want to help and need managing themselves. There is a specific loneliness in being strong for a child all day and having no one to fall apart with at night.
How peer support helps near Little Rock
A peer group gives you other parents who know what a hospital hallway sounds like at two in the morning. You join from the family room on the ward, the hotel or home once you are back, and the group is the one hour that is about you rather than the chart.
What members near Little Rock talk about
- Caring for a child with a serious or long-term illness
- Marriage strain when one parent lives at the hospital
- Guilt about the siblings who are getting less of you
- Fear before every test, scan and follow-up
Who these groups may help
- Parents of a child in treatment in Little Rock
- Families who traveled in from across Arkansas for care
- Grandparents and relatives holding the household together
- Parents whose child has recovered and who have not
Support group topics for people near Little Rock
Every topic has its own page with live groups, so you can start with the one closest to what you are carrying.
Areas around Little Rock
Every group meets online, so you can join from home anywhere around Little Rock.
- North Little Rock
- Conway
- Benton
- Bryant
- Sherwood
- Maumelle
- Cabot
- Jacksonville, Arkansas
- Pulaski County
- Central Arkansas
Crisis and help lines near Little Rock
ShareWell groups are peer support and are not crisis or emergency services. If you or someone near you is in danger, call 911, or call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at any hour.
- AR ConnectNow1-800-482-9921
All of Arkansas, a behavioral health call center rather than a crisis line, 24 hours a day, every day
Official site
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Frequently asked questions
Do I need to live in Little Rock to join?
Can I join from the hospital?
Is there a group just for parents of sick children?
My child is better now. Why do I still feel like this?
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