Online Support Groups Near Modesto
Whether you are in Modesto, Turlock, Ceres, Riverbank, Oakdale or somewhere else in Stanislaus County, ShareWell has live online support groups you can join once the day finally ends. A lot of the Valley runs on family operations, orchards, dairies, trucking outfits and shops, where the people you work with are the people you go home to, and there is no such thing as leaving it at the office.
Every group meets online by live video, so you can join from home.
These online groups start during the day and evening in Pacific time, so they fit a day near Modesto.
Upcoming Groups
Belladonna
Compassion, empathy and support with major life challenges.
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People whose anxiety makes ordinary days feel like a lot
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Member-led
People whose anxiety makes ordinary days feel like a lot
Member-led
For those rebuilding after painful relationships
When the family is also the business
In an almond orchard or a family dairy outside Turlock, a bad year is a family problem at the dinner table, not a line in someone else's report. Fathers and sons who disagree about the operation still have to work it together at five in the morning. Spouses do the books and the worrying. Harvest, water and prices set the mood of the whole house, and the children grow up knowing which months not to ask for anything. In town, the same pattern plays out in family restaurants and auto shops in Ceres and Modesto. Pride in the work is enormous, and so is the rule that you do not talk about the pressure to anyone outside the family, because everyone in the Valley knows everyone.
How peer support helps near Modesto
A peer group is made of people who are not in your family and not in your business, which is exactly what makes it possible to say how it is going. You join from the house after the last chores in Oakdale or Patterson, and the others in the room carry their own version of a life you can never fully clock out of.
What members near Modesto talk about
- Money and weather stress that the whole household feels
- Working every day with a parent, sibling or spouse
- Drinking or anger that has become part of the long days
- Not being able to vent to anyone who knows you
Who these groups may help
- Farm and dairy families in Stanislaus County
- Owners and spouses in family shops and restaurants
- Adult children working for parents who still run the show
- Anyone who needs people outside the family to talk to
Support group topics for people near Modesto
Every topic has its own page with live groups, so you can start with the one closest to what you are carrying.
Areas around Modesto
Every group meets online, so you can join from home anywhere around Modesto.
- Turlock
- Ceres
- Riverbank
- Oakdale
- Salida
- Patterson
- Newman
- Manteca
- Merced
- Stanislaus County
Crisis and help lines near Modesto
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
I am out in Oakdale, not Modesto. Can I still join?
I work until dark during harvest. What times are there?
Will anyone from around here be in my group?
Is there a group in Spanish for my parents?
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