Online Support Groups Near Wichita
Whether you are in Derby, Andover, Haysville, Maize or somewhere else in south-central Kansas, ShareWell has live online support groups for people whose working life ended and took their whole social world with it. Wichita builds airplanes, and the plants have given generations of families a steady paycheck and a crew, and then one day the badge stops working.
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 Wichita.
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After thirty years on the line, the crew is gone
The aircraft plants on the east and south sides of town have been the center of life for a lot of Wichita households: the same shift for decades, the same break table, the same people at the retirement sendoffs. Retirement itself, or a layoff that came first, removes all of it at once. The days are suddenly open and the phone does not ring, because the friends were work friends and they are still on shift. Men in particular were raised on the plains to be useful and to keep their feelings to themselves, and a man who built things for thirty years can feel like he is in the way at home. Marriages that ran on two separate schedules now have the two of you in the same kitchen all day. The wind blows, the weather is dramatic, and the identity you had at the plant is not something you can hand in with the tools.
How peer support helps near Wichita
A peer group gives you a place to be somebody again on a regular schedule, with people who also lost a work family and are figuring out what the days are for. You join from home in Derby or Haysville, and the group becomes a standing appointment in a week that lost its shape.
What members near Wichita talk about
- Retirement or layoff from a job that was your whole identity
- Losing the friends who were only ever at work
- A marriage adjusting to both of you being home
- Low mood and drinking that crept in with the empty days
Who these groups may help
- Retirees from the aircraft plants and the trades
- Workers laid off late in a career
- Spouses adjusting to a partner who is suddenly home
- Anyone who does not know who they are without the job
Support group topics for people near Wichita
Every topic has its own page with live groups, so you can start with the one closest to what you are carrying.
Areas around Wichita
Every group meets online, so you can join from home anywhere around Wichita.
- Derby
- Andover
- Haysville
- Maize
- Park City
- Goddard
- Newton
- El Dorado
- Hutchinson
- Sedgwick County
Crisis and help lines near Wichita
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
Do I need to live in Wichita to join?
I am not much of a talker. Is that a problem?
I am not retired, I was let go. Does this still fit?
Is there anything for my wife, who is dealing with me being home?
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