Online Support Groups Near Miami
Whether you are in Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale, Broward, Homestead or somewhere else in South Florida, ShareWell has live online support groups where you do not have to explain yourself first. Most people in Miami came from somewhere else, and many carry worries about family, money and the next storm that are hard to explain to anyone who has not lived them.
Every group meets online by live video, so you can join from home.
These online groups start during the day and evening in Eastern time, so they fit a day near Miami.
Holding two worlds together
South Florida is home to people from all over Latin America, the Caribbean and the rest of the United States, and many live with part of their family in another country. Rent takes an unusually large share of income here, and condo owners on fixed incomes have watched insurance and building costs climb. For six months of every year people track storms, stock supplies and decide whether to stay or leave. Add months of heat and some of the heaviest traffic in the country, and it becomes easy to go a long time without sitting down with someone who understands.
How peer support helps near Miami
In a peer group you meet people who have also started over, who also send help to family far away, or who also lie awake during storm season. You join from home, so the Palmetto at rush hour is not part of the plan.
What members near Miami talk about
- Missing family who live far away and worrying about them
- The pressure of rent, insurance and rising costs
- The tension that builds during hurricane season
- Living between two cultures and feeling fully at home in neither
Who these groups may help
- People who moved here and left their family behind
- Anyone under pressure from housing costs
- Older residents worried about keeping their home
- People who feel they are always the one helping others
Support group topics for people near Miami
Every topic has its own page with live groups, so you can start with the one closest to what you are carrying.
Areas around Miami
Every group meets online, so you can join from home anywhere around Miami.
- Fort Lauderdale
- Hialeah
- Broward County
- West Palm Beach
- Hollywood
- Miami Beach
- Coral Gables
- Pembroke Pines
- Homestead
- South Florida
Crisis and help lines near Miami
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.
- Miami-Dade Mobile Response Teams800-435-7968
Miami-Dade County, children and adults, 24 hours a day, every day
Official site - 211 Miami211
Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties, 24 hours a day, every day
Official site - 211 Broward211
Broward County, 24 hours a day, every day
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