Online Support Groups Near McAllen and the Rio Grande Valley
Whether you are in McAllen, Edinburg, Mission, Pharr, Weslaco or anywhere else in the Valley, ShareWell has live online support groups you can join from home in English or Spanish. In the Valley, family is the whole point, which is also why the person carrying the family has nowhere to put it down.
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 McAllen.
Upcoming Groups
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New moms needing extra support
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For those rebuilding after painful relationships
Holding three generations together
Houses here often hold grandparents, parents and children at once, and one adult, usually a daughter, ends up as the appointment keeper, the translator at the clinic, the one who drives to Reynosa to see a relative and the one who is also raising her own kids. Caring for an abuelo with diabetes or dementia is simply what you do, so asking for help can feel like saying the family is failing. Work in the hospitals, the schools and the stores runs long hours, cousins who moved to Houston or San Antonio for jobs cannot share the load, and the heat keeps everyone indoors for half the year. Faith and family carry a great deal, and they also make it hard to say out loud that you are not okay.
How peer support helps near McAllen
A peer group is an hour a week where you are not the one in charge. You join from your own kitchen in Mission or Edinburg after the house is quiet, and the other people in the room understand both the devotion and the exhaustion of a big family without needing it explained.
What members near McAllen talk about
- Caregiving for parents and grandparents while raising children
- The guilt of needing a break in a family that does not take breaks
- Siblings who moved away and cannot help
- Grief, diabetes and dementia in the family, and talking about them at home
Who these groups may help
- Daughters and sons who became the family caregiver
- Parents raising kids in a multigenerational home
- Nurses, teachers and clinic workers in the Valley with nothing left after a shift
- Anyone who would rather talk in Spanish, or in both languages
Support group topics for people near McAllen
Every topic has its own page with live groups, so you can start with the one closest to what you are carrying.
Areas around McAllen
Every group meets online, so you can join from home anywhere around McAllen.
- Edinburg
- Mission
- Pharr
- San Juan
- Weslaco
- Harlingen
- Brownsville
- Rio Grande City
- Hidalgo County
- the Rio Grande Valley
Crisis and help lines near McAllen
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.
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Frequently asked questions
Is McAllen the only place this works for?
Are there groups in Spanish?
My mother lives with us and is not sick, just older. Is this still for me?
I do not want anyone in the Valley to know I am struggling. Is this private?
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