Online Support Groups Near Youngstown
Whether you are in Youngstown, Boardman, Austintown, Warren, Niles, Canfield or just over the line in Sharon, ShareWell has live online support groups you can join from home. The Mahoning Valley has watched its children leave for work for forty years, and the people who stayed are often the grandparents, now raising a second set of kids while their own are in Columbus, Charlotte or Phoenix.
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 Youngstown.
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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gracewongt
New moms needing extra support
Member-led
People whose anxiety makes ordinary days feel like a lot
Raising the grandchildren after the kids moved away
In Boardman and Austintown it is common to find a grandmother in her sixties getting a nine-year-old to school and a teenager through a hard year, because a son or daughter is working two states away, or struggling, or gone. The pension is stretched over a household it was not planned for. Friends her age are retired and traveling. The school parents are thirty years younger. Across the Valley, older couples are also caring for each other with no family nearby, and middle-aged workers at the hospitals and the remaining plants carry parents, kids and grandkids at once. People here are proud, practical and not inclined to ask for help, and the quiet in a once-busy house can be heavy.
How peer support helps near Youngstown
A peer group gives a grandparent or a caregiver an hour that belongs to them, with people in the same position who do not need the family history explained. You join from home in Austintown or Warren once the kids are asleep, and the room understands both the love and the exhaustion.
What members near Youngstown talk about
- Raising grandchildren late in life
- Adult children who left, struggled or disappeared
- Caregiving for a spouse with no family nearby
- Grief and resentment that are not allowed to show
Who these groups may help
- Grandparents who became parents again
- Older couples caring for each other in the Valley
- Middle-aged workers holding three generations together
- Anyone whose family is spread across the country
Support group topics for people near Youngstown
Every topic has its own page with live groups, so you can start with the one closest to what you are carrying.
Areas around Youngstown
Every group meets online, so you can join from home anywhere around Youngstown.
- Boardman
- Austintown
- Warren
- Canfield
- Niles
- Struthers
- Hubbard
- Poland
- Sharon
- Mahoning County
- Trumbull County
Crisis and help lines near Youngstown
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
Can I join from Warren or Sharon rather than Youngstown?
I am raising my grandchildren. Is there a group for that specifically?
I am not comfortable with computers. Is this hard?
Can my daughter in another state join to understand what I am carrying?
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