PeerGalaxy Calendar
Welcome to PeerGalaxy Calendar featuring offerings of telephone + online peer support + wellness activities!
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How Events are Sorted:
First, at the top of the list: Disaster Hotline & Oregon Safe + Strong Helpline.
Next in the list: Bundled “All Day” Events for organizations with events happening at multiple times throughout the day and/or in many formats or locations; these are bundled into a single listing to prevent endless scrolling. Usually these offer a lookup by zip code or other criteria.
Lastly, Time-Specific Events listed by start time from 12:01am early morning to 11:59pm late night. Warmlines and places east of Oregon’s time zone tend to start earlier (e.g. 4am in Oregon is 7am in New York).
Veteran Resource Navigator
The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) has a comprehensive online resource guide (VETERAN RESOURCE NAVIGATOR) available to assist veterans in finding the benefits that are most useful to their unique circumstances at this time.
Use the link below for the Veteran Resource Navigator
https://www.oregon.gov/
Other Resources Available to Veterans and Military Service Members
- Veteran Resource Navigator site by ODVA: https://www.oregon.gov/
odva/COVID/Pages/default.aspx - (Oregon) Military Help Line: Call 888-457-4838
- VA Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, press 1.
- VA Confidential crisis chat at net or text to 838255
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.
gov/
If you are a veteran or family member with specific questions not addressed here, or if you need other direct assistance, please contact an ODVA Resource Navigator by calling (503) 373-2085 or toll-free at 1-800-692-9666.
Contact ODVA Headquarters
Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs
700 Summer St NE
Salem, OR 97301
Web: https://www.oregon.gov/odva/Pages/default.aspx
Phone: (800) 692-9666 or (503) 373-2085
Fax: (503) 373-2392
Email: orvetsbenefits@odva.state.or.us
Support Groups Central offers Quality Peer Support
Strength for Your Journey
Group Video Meetings Led by Trained Facilitators
- Online meetings are via Zoom (secured)
- You can get reminders and keep a journal of your progress
>>> Watch this video to learn how it works at:
>>> Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
https://www.SupportGroupsCentral.com
>>> Checkout the list of TOPIC AREAS from a wide variety of organizations including but not limited to:
https://www.supportgroupscentral.com/index.cfm#anc1
Here is a sampling:
- Coping with Stress
- Coping with Chronic Pain
- Grief and Bereavement
- Trauma Healing and Recovery
- Support for Veterans and Military Families
- Support for Expecting Parents
- Postpartum Support
- Depression Recovery
- Anxiety Recovery
- Mental Health & Wellness
- Caregiver Support
- Ministry
- Health Issues
- and many more!
>>> Check out Facebook Page for Support Groups Central:
https://www.facebook.com/SupportGroupsCentral
Other offerings:
Hey Peers! Real Humans. Real Help. Real Time
Hey Peers is a video chat app that allows people to safely browse and join peer support conversations and meetings. You can download the app online for your iPhone device. Android version coming soon. Now available online on the website, too!
Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Meetings List
https://www.heypeers.com/meetings_list
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Chatrooms List
https://www.heypeers.com/chatrooms
Some More About Hey Peers:
Instant community
Create a community of trusted and like-minded peers – those that share similar challenges and experiences, those that want support, and those that give support. Employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, payers, and individuals can set up an instant community and sponsor peer support for their employees, members or loved ones.
Connect with peers
Would you like to connect with peers or supporters between support group meetings? You can do this on Hey Peers. Individuals can quickly find others who they would like to connect with for mutual support. Connections are secure and confidential with an option to remain anonymous.
Progress tracking
Hey Peers offers a premium option to journal and track moods, wellness, exercise, and other key components of mental and physical wellness. The easy recording of key indicators and important treatment information can help one see progress from support. No personal information is shared.
Available on any device
Access Hey Peers on your laptop, tablet, or mobile. No downloads necessary with our mobile responsive web App that works on any device.
Trusted Peer Facilitators
Hey Peers screens peer support facilitators to make sure they have appropriate credentials, and allows users to rate and review peer leaders to ensure high quality peer support.
our users
Who uses Hey Peers?
Any individual or peer supporter can sign up and use Hey Peers. We also designed our App for small, midsize, and large employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, and insurers to use Hey Peers for their members and employees to improve wellness outcomes in a safe and purpose-build environment.
1:1 Peer Support Coaching
1:1 Peer Coaching is a way for you to work more intensively toward achieving and maintaining yourself as you deal with your life’s challenges. In our 1:1 sessions, you will meet with a certified peer specialist or recovery coach of your choosing. There will be no other participants … just you and your coach.
Peer Support Solutions
Does your organization want to provide a secure digital peer support platform for your members or employees? Hey Peers combines a video conferencing system with chat support groups so that you can offer both regularly scheduled support group meetings and on-demand facilitated peer chat conversations to support everyday needs.
Find out more about our special offer during social distancing by completing the online form at the link below.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/contact
Facilitators
If you are a Peer Supporter that is affiliated with a non-profit that is using Hey Peers, you can sign up directly on Hey Peers to get started.
If you are a Peer Supporter that is certified, trained, or licensed, please complete our Facilitator Application, and fill out the form below as part of our approval process.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/facilitators
Hey Peers Tools for Support Groups
Hey Peers offers more administrative tools for managing virtual support groups than Zoom, Skype, Facebook, or other teleconferencing or forum tools including but not limited to:
- Groups or one-on-one conversations
- Peer and meeting match recommendations
- Private, password-protected meeting options
- Approve members subscribing to your organization
- Self-wellness tools that help your members see progress
- Share group documents electronically from your Hey Peers page (no more copying, binding, handing out)
- Direct links to schedules and meetings from your web site – easier to track for facilitators and members
- Track group participation rates
- Custom registration data collection available
- Prepare electronic reports to show the positive impact support groups deliver for fundraising, research and program management
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
Survivor Peer Support Warmline
CALL 855-473-3711 (855-4peer11)
A survivor support line is now available to provide telephone support to those who suffer from all levels of brain impairment. 4peer11 is a survivor run, funded, operated and managed-emotional help line. We do not give medical advice, but we DO have two compassionate ears. We have survived some form of brain injury or are a survivor who is significant in the life of a survivor.
Live operators are available from 9am-9pm Pacific Standard Time. If a call comes when an operator is not free please leave a message. Messages are returned on a regular basis.
Website:
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Brain Injury Support Groups in the Pacific Northwest (incl. online and family):
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Recursos en Espanol / Resources in Spanish
https://www.biaoregon.org/resource-library/recursos-en-espanol/
Contact Information:
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
PO Box 549, Molalla OR 97038
Have YOU HAD a brain injury?
Call: 1-800-544-5243 / 503-961-5675
Website Excerpt(s):
Our Neuro-Resource Facilitation expert can help you and your family find answers to your questions. We offer support in coping with the issues of living with a brain injury and transition back to work as well as the community. This is a FREE service dedicated to helping people choose, get and keep needed services and supports.
- Providing brain injury specific information and resources;
- Enhancing natural supports and connecting you to services, and community resources;
- Providing training to providers for increased capacity of Oregon’s system of services provided;
- Accessing, securing and maximizing funding, both private and public.
- Customized Packet (primary resources distributed) by the Neuro-Resource Facilitators, contains important brain injury information as well as various services/supports for individuals and families experiencing brain injury that is unique to each caller.
- Another resource commonly distributed by our staff is a selection of DVDs.
There is a large library of resources, DVDs, videos, and more available. English and Espanol / Spanish. Plus, specific support for veterans.
Oregon TBI / Brain Injury Support Groups (check for availability ahead of time, and find more online from links above)
Bend
Central Oregon Support Group
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Meeting Place:
Rehab Conference Room, Lower Level
St. Charles Medical Center
2500 NE Neff Rd.
Bend, OR 97701
Contacts:
Joyce and Dave Accornero at (541) 382-9451 or Accornero@bendbroadband.com
Brookings
Brain Injury Group (BIG)
To be announced.
Contact:
(877) 469-8844 or (541) 469-8887
Cottage Grove
BIG II (Brain Injury Group II)
This group meets every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
The Jefferson Park Recreation Room
325 S. Fifth Street
Cottage Grove, OR
Contact:
Anna at (541) 767-0845
Corvallis
Stroke and Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Church of the Good Samaritan Lounge
333 NW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
Contact:
Amy Nistico at (541) 768-5157 at aeasterl@samhealth.org
Eugene
Community Rehabilitation Service of Oregon
This group meets on the third Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Central Presbyterian Church
555 E 15th Ave. (15th & Patterson)
Eugene, OR. 97401
Contact:
Jan Johnson at (541) 342-1980 or comrehabjan@aol.com
BIG (Brain Injury Group)
This group meets on Tuesday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Call for information.
Meeting Place:
Hilyard Community Center
2580 Hilyard Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact:
Curtis Brown at (541) 998-3951 or BCCBrown@aol.com
Hillsboro
Homeward Bound Support Group
This group meets on the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Tuality Community Hospital
335 SE 8th Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Contact:
Carol Altman (503) 640-0818
Klamath Falls
Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the second Tuesday from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
SPOKES
415 Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Contact:
Dawn Lytle at (541) 883-7547 or dawn.lytle@spokesunlimited.org
Lebanon
Brain Injury Support Group of Lebanon
This group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
Lebanon Community Hospital,
Conference Room #6
525 North Santiam Highway
Lebanon, OR 97355
Contact:
Lisa Stoffey at (541) 752-0816 or lstoffey@aol.com
Medford
Turning Point
This group meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
11 West Jackson Street
Medford, OR 97501
Contact:
Pam Ogden at (541) 776-3427 or Pamela.Ogden@sogoodwill.org
Southern Oregon Brainstormers Support and Social Club
This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Providence Medical Center
Birthplace Conf. Rm (Main Entrance, turn left)
1111 Crater Lake Avenue
Medford, OR 97504
Contact:
Lorita Cushman at (541) 772-6528 or LORITAMICKCUSH@aol.com
Molalla
Brain Injury Support Group of Molalla
This group meets on the fourth Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Son’light Vital Foods, Inc.
123 Robbins St.
Molalla, OR 97038
Contact:
Raeleah Brensen at (503) 829-9456 or Skeeter@molalla.net
Newport
Brain Injury Support Group of Newport
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Meeting Place:
4909 S Coast Hwy Suite 340
South Beach, Oregon 97366
Website: www.progressive-options.org
Contact:
(541) 867-4335 or progop541@yahoo.com
Oregon City
Clackamas Community College Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the third Friday of the month (during school year) from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Clackamas Community College McLoughlin Hall
Rm. M226 (2nd floor)
Oregon City, OR
Contact:
Sonja Bolon, MA, at (503) 816-1053 or Brain4you2@gmail.com
Pendleton
Inactive at this time.
For more information contact:
Joyce McFarland-Orr at (541) 278-1194 or jmcfarland@Oregontrail.net
Portland
BIRC Alumni Support Group
This group meets the last Tuesday of every odd month.
Address:
1815 SW Marlow, Ste. 110
Portland, 97225
Contact:
Doug Peterson at (503) 292-0765 or doug@progrehab.com
Brainstormers I Women’s Self-help Group
This group meets the second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Wilcox Building
Room A (Next to Good Samaritan Hospital)
2211 NW Marshall St.
Portland 97210
Contact:
Jane Starbird, PhD, at (503) 493-1221 or drstarbird@aol.com
Brainstormers II Survivor Self-help Group
This group meets the third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – noon.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, M.O.B.-West
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Steve Wright at (503) 413-7707 or biaor@biaoregon.org
Crossroads (Brain Injury Discussion Group)
This group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Independent Living Resources
2410 SE 11th
Portland, OR 97214
Contact:
Christopher Eason at 503-232-7411 or christopher@ilr.org
Family Support Group
This group meets on the third Saturday of the month from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. The group is currently combined with Parents of Children with Brain Injury.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, Rm 1035
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Joyce Kerley at (503) 413-7707 or joycek1145@aol.com
Project A.B.L.E. (A Better Life Experience) offering virtual online peer support activities via Zoom.
Veterans Coffee with Hollalina at Project A.B.L.E. – Wednesdays – 10am-11am PST
Zoom Link for scheduled event times:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/5433781708
Or call 720-707-2699 and enter Meeting ID# 543-378-1708
Website:
Activities Calendar
https://projectable.org/what-we-do/activities/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ProjectABLEInc/
This online support group is for Veterans and Active Military Service Members with mental illness, regardless of their diagnosis. The group is offered free of charge, and no registration or enrollment is required. Each meeting is facilitated by trained individuals (via Zoom platform) who are also in recovery and understand the challenges. Please call the NAMI helpline at 503-228-5692 or click here to contact NAMI Multnomah.
Veteran Resource Navigator
The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) has a comprehensive online resource guide (VETERAN RESOURCE NAVIGATOR) available to assist veterans in finding the benefits that are most useful to their unique circumstances at this time.
Use the link below for the Veteran Resource Navigator
https://www.oregon.gov/
Other Resources Available to Veterans and Military Service Members
- Veteran Resource Navigator site by ODVA: https://www.oregon.gov/
odva/COVID/Pages/default.aspx - (Oregon) Military Help Line: Call 888-457-4838
- VA Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, press 1.
- VA Confidential crisis chat at net or text to 838255
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.
gov/
If you are a veteran or family member with specific questions not addressed here, or if you need other direct assistance, please contact an ODVA Resource Navigator by calling (503) 373-2085 or toll-free at 1-800-692-9666.
Contact ODVA Headquarters
Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs
700 Summer St NE
Salem, OR 97301
Web: https://www.oregon.gov/odva/Pages/default.aspx
Phone: (800) 692-9666 or (503) 373-2085
Fax: (503) 373-2392
Email: orvetsbenefits@odva.state.or.us
Support Groups Central offers Quality Peer Support
Strength for Your Journey
Group Video Meetings Led by Trained Facilitators
- Online meetings are via Zoom (secured)
- You can get reminders and keep a journal of your progress
>>> Watch this video to learn how it works at:
>>> Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
https://www.SupportGroupsCentral.com
>>> Checkout the list of TOPIC AREAS from a wide variety of organizations including but not limited to:
https://www.supportgroupscentral.com/index.cfm#anc1
Here is a sampling:
- Coping with Stress
- Coping with Chronic Pain
- Grief and Bereavement
- Trauma Healing and Recovery
- Support for Veterans and Military Families
- Support for Expecting Parents
- Postpartum Support
- Depression Recovery
- Anxiety Recovery
- Mental Health & Wellness
- Caregiver Support
- Ministry
- Health Issues
- and many more!
>>> Check out Facebook Page for Support Groups Central:
https://www.facebook.com/SupportGroupsCentral
Other offerings:
Hey Peers! Real Humans. Real Help. Real Time
Hey Peers is a video chat app that allows people to safely browse and join peer support conversations and meetings. You can download the app online for your iPhone device. Android version coming soon. Now available online on the website, too!
Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Meetings List
https://www.heypeers.com/meetings_list
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Chatrooms List
https://www.heypeers.com/chatrooms
Some More About Hey Peers:
Instant community
Create a community of trusted and like-minded peers – those that share similar challenges and experiences, those that want support, and those that give support. Employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, payers, and individuals can set up an instant community and sponsor peer support for their employees, members or loved ones.
Connect with peers
Would you like to connect with peers or supporters between support group meetings? You can do this on Hey Peers. Individuals can quickly find others who they would like to connect with for mutual support. Connections are secure and confidential with an option to remain anonymous.
Progress tracking
Hey Peers offers a premium option to journal and track moods, wellness, exercise, and other key components of mental and physical wellness. The easy recording of key indicators and important treatment information can help one see progress from support. No personal information is shared.
Available on any device
Access Hey Peers on your laptop, tablet, or mobile. No downloads necessary with our mobile responsive web App that works on any device.
Trusted Peer Facilitators
Hey Peers screens peer support facilitators to make sure they have appropriate credentials, and allows users to rate and review peer leaders to ensure high quality peer support.
our users
Who uses Hey Peers?
Any individual or peer supporter can sign up and use Hey Peers. We also designed our App for small, midsize, and large employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, and insurers to use Hey Peers for their members and employees to improve wellness outcomes in a safe and purpose-build environment.
1:1 Peer Support Coaching
1:1 Peer Coaching is a way for you to work more intensively toward achieving and maintaining yourself as you deal with your life’s challenges. In our 1:1 sessions, you will meet with a certified peer specialist or recovery coach of your choosing. There will be no other participants … just you and your coach.
Peer Support Solutions
Does your organization want to provide a secure digital peer support platform for your members or employees? Hey Peers combines a video conferencing system with chat support groups so that you can offer both regularly scheduled support group meetings and on-demand facilitated peer chat conversations to support everyday needs.
Find out more about our special offer during social distancing by completing the online form at the link below.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/contact
Facilitators
If you are a Peer Supporter that is affiliated with a non-profit that is using Hey Peers, you can sign up directly on Hey Peers to get started.
If you are a Peer Supporter that is certified, trained, or licensed, please complete our Facilitator Application, and fill out the form below as part of our approval process.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/facilitators
Hey Peers Tools for Support Groups
Hey Peers offers more administrative tools for managing virtual support groups than Zoom, Skype, Facebook, or other teleconferencing or forum tools including but not limited to:
- Groups or one-on-one conversations
- Peer and meeting match recommendations
- Private, password-protected meeting options
- Approve members subscribing to your organization
- Self-wellness tools that help your members see progress
- Share group documents electronically from your Hey Peers page (no more copying, binding, handing out)
- Direct links to schedules and meetings from your web site – easier to track for facilitators and members
- Track group participation rates
- Custom registration data collection available
- Prepare electronic reports to show the positive impact support groups deliver for fundraising, research and program management
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
Survivor Peer Support Warmline
CALL 855-473-3711 (855-4peer11)
A survivor support line is now available to provide telephone support to those who suffer from all levels of brain impairment. 4peer11 is a survivor run, funded, operated and managed-emotional help line. We do not give medical advice, but we DO have two compassionate ears. We have survived some form of brain injury or are a survivor who is significant in the life of a survivor.
Live operators are available from 9am-9pm Pacific Standard Time. If a call comes when an operator is not free please leave a message. Messages are returned on a regular basis.
Website:
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Brain Injury Support Groups in the Pacific Northwest (incl. online and family):
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Recursos en Espanol / Resources in Spanish
https://www.biaoregon.org/resource-library/recursos-en-espanol/
Contact Information:
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
PO Box 549, Molalla OR 97038
Have YOU HAD a brain injury?
Call: 1-800-544-5243 / 503-961-5675
Website Excerpt(s):
Our Neuro-Resource Facilitation expert can help you and your family find answers to your questions. We offer support in coping with the issues of living with a brain injury and transition back to work as well as the community. This is a FREE service dedicated to helping people choose, get and keep needed services and supports.
- Providing brain injury specific information and resources;
- Enhancing natural supports and connecting you to services, and community resources;
- Providing training to providers for increased capacity of Oregon’s system of services provided;
- Accessing, securing and maximizing funding, both private and public.
- Customized Packet (primary resources distributed) by the Neuro-Resource Facilitators, contains important brain injury information as well as various services/supports for individuals and families experiencing brain injury that is unique to each caller.
- Another resource commonly distributed by our staff is a selection of DVDs.
There is a large library of resources, DVDs, videos, and more available. English and Espanol / Spanish. Plus, specific support for veterans.
Oregon TBI / Brain Injury Support Groups (check for availability ahead of time, and find more online from links above)
Bend
Central Oregon Support Group
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Meeting Place:
Rehab Conference Room, Lower Level
St. Charles Medical Center
2500 NE Neff Rd.
Bend, OR 97701
Contacts:
Joyce and Dave Accornero at (541) 382-9451 or Accornero@bendbroadband.com
Brookings
Brain Injury Group (BIG)
To be announced.
Contact:
(877) 469-8844 or (541) 469-8887
Cottage Grove
BIG II (Brain Injury Group II)
This group meets every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
The Jefferson Park Recreation Room
325 S. Fifth Street
Cottage Grove, OR
Contact:
Anna at (541) 767-0845
Corvallis
Stroke and Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Church of the Good Samaritan Lounge
333 NW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
Contact:
Amy Nistico at (541) 768-5157 at aeasterl@samhealth.org
Eugene
Community Rehabilitation Service of Oregon
This group meets on the third Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Central Presbyterian Church
555 E 15th Ave. (15th & Patterson)
Eugene, OR. 97401
Contact:
Jan Johnson at (541) 342-1980 or comrehabjan@aol.com
BIG (Brain Injury Group)
This group meets on Tuesday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Call for information.
Meeting Place:
Hilyard Community Center
2580 Hilyard Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact:
Curtis Brown at (541) 998-3951 or BCCBrown@aol.com
Hillsboro
Homeward Bound Support Group
This group meets on the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Tuality Community Hospital
335 SE 8th Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Contact:
Carol Altman (503) 640-0818
Klamath Falls
Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the second Tuesday from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
SPOKES
415 Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Contact:
Dawn Lytle at (541) 883-7547 or dawn.lytle@spokesunlimited.org
Lebanon
Brain Injury Support Group of Lebanon
This group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
Lebanon Community Hospital,
Conference Room #6
525 North Santiam Highway
Lebanon, OR 97355
Contact:
Lisa Stoffey at (541) 752-0816 or lstoffey@aol.com
Medford
Turning Point
This group meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
11 West Jackson Street
Medford, OR 97501
Contact:
Pam Ogden at (541) 776-3427 or Pamela.Ogden@sogoodwill.org
Southern Oregon Brainstormers Support and Social Club
This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Providence Medical Center
Birthplace Conf. Rm (Main Entrance, turn left)
1111 Crater Lake Avenue
Medford, OR 97504
Contact:
Lorita Cushman at (541) 772-6528 or LORITAMICKCUSH@aol.com
Molalla
Brain Injury Support Group of Molalla
This group meets on the fourth Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Son’light Vital Foods, Inc.
123 Robbins St.
Molalla, OR 97038
Contact:
Raeleah Brensen at (503) 829-9456 or Skeeter@molalla.net
Newport
Brain Injury Support Group of Newport
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Meeting Place:
4909 S Coast Hwy Suite 340
South Beach, Oregon 97366
Website: www.progressive-options.org
Contact:
(541) 867-4335 or progop541@yahoo.com
Oregon City
Clackamas Community College Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the third Friday of the month (during school year) from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Clackamas Community College McLoughlin Hall
Rm. M226 (2nd floor)
Oregon City, OR
Contact:
Sonja Bolon, MA, at (503) 816-1053 or Brain4you2@gmail.com
Pendleton
Inactive at this time.
For more information contact:
Joyce McFarland-Orr at (541) 278-1194 or jmcfarland@Oregontrail.net
Portland
BIRC Alumni Support Group
This group meets the last Tuesday of every odd month.
Address:
1815 SW Marlow, Ste. 110
Portland, 97225
Contact:
Doug Peterson at (503) 292-0765 or doug@progrehab.com
Brainstormers I Women’s Self-help Group
This group meets the second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Wilcox Building
Room A (Next to Good Samaritan Hospital)
2211 NW Marshall St.
Portland 97210
Contact:
Jane Starbird, PhD, at (503) 493-1221 or drstarbird@aol.com
Brainstormers II Survivor Self-help Group
This group meets the third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – noon.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, M.O.B.-West
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Steve Wright at (503) 413-7707 or biaor@biaoregon.org
Crossroads (Brain Injury Discussion Group)
This group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Independent Living Resources
2410 SE 11th
Portland, OR 97214
Contact:
Christopher Eason at 503-232-7411 or christopher@ilr.org
Family Support Group
This group meets on the third Saturday of the month from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. The group is currently combined with Parents of Children with Brain Injury.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, Rm 1035
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Joyce Kerley at (503) 413-7707 or joycek1145@aol.com
Veteran Resource Navigator
The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) has a comprehensive online resource guide (VETERAN RESOURCE NAVIGATOR) available to assist veterans in finding the benefits that are most useful to their unique circumstances at this time.
Use the link below for the Veteran Resource Navigator
https://www.oregon.gov/
Other Resources Available to Veterans and Military Service Members
- Veteran Resource Navigator site by ODVA: https://www.oregon.gov/
odva/COVID/Pages/default.aspx - (Oregon) Military Help Line: Call 888-457-4838
- VA Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, press 1.
- VA Confidential crisis chat at net or text to 838255
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.
gov/
If you are a veteran or family member with specific questions not addressed here, or if you need other direct assistance, please contact an ODVA Resource Navigator by calling (503) 373-2085 or toll-free at 1-800-692-9666.
Contact ODVA Headquarters
Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs
700 Summer St NE
Salem, OR 97301
Web: https://www.oregon.gov/odva/Pages/default.aspx
Phone: (800) 692-9666 or (503) 373-2085
Fax: (503) 373-2392
Email: orvetsbenefits@odva.state.or.us
Support Groups Central offers Quality Peer Support
Strength for Your Journey
Group Video Meetings Led by Trained Facilitators
- Online meetings are via Zoom (secured)
- You can get reminders and keep a journal of your progress
>>> Watch this video to learn how it works at:
>>> Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
https://www.SupportGroupsCentral.com
>>> Checkout the list of TOPIC AREAS from a wide variety of organizations including but not limited to:
https://www.supportgroupscentral.com/index.cfm#anc1
Here is a sampling:
- Coping with Stress
- Coping with Chronic Pain
- Grief and Bereavement
- Trauma Healing and Recovery
- Support for Veterans and Military Families
- Support for Expecting Parents
- Postpartum Support
- Depression Recovery
- Anxiety Recovery
- Mental Health & Wellness
- Caregiver Support
- Ministry
- Health Issues
- and many more!
>>> Check out Facebook Page for Support Groups Central:
https://www.facebook.com/SupportGroupsCentral
Other offerings:
Hey Peers! Real Humans. Real Help. Real Time
Hey Peers is a video chat app that allows people to safely browse and join peer support conversations and meetings. You can download the app online for your iPhone device. Android version coming soon. Now available online on the website, too!
Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Meetings List
https://www.heypeers.com/meetings_list
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Chatrooms List
https://www.heypeers.com/chatrooms
Some More About Hey Peers:
Instant community
Create a community of trusted and like-minded peers – those that share similar challenges and experiences, those that want support, and those that give support. Employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, payers, and individuals can set up an instant community and sponsor peer support for their employees, members or loved ones.
Connect with peers
Would you like to connect with peers or supporters between support group meetings? You can do this on Hey Peers. Individuals can quickly find others who they would like to connect with for mutual support. Connections are secure and confidential with an option to remain anonymous.
Progress tracking
Hey Peers offers a premium option to journal and track moods, wellness, exercise, and other key components of mental and physical wellness. The easy recording of key indicators and important treatment information can help one see progress from support. No personal information is shared.
Available on any device
Access Hey Peers on your laptop, tablet, or mobile. No downloads necessary with our mobile responsive web App that works on any device.
Trusted Peer Facilitators
Hey Peers screens peer support facilitators to make sure they have appropriate credentials, and allows users to rate and review peer leaders to ensure high quality peer support.
our users
Who uses Hey Peers?
Any individual or peer supporter can sign up and use Hey Peers. We also designed our App for small, midsize, and large employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, and insurers to use Hey Peers for their members and employees to improve wellness outcomes in a safe and purpose-build environment.
1:1 Peer Support Coaching
1:1 Peer Coaching is a way for you to work more intensively toward achieving and maintaining yourself as you deal with your life’s challenges. In our 1:1 sessions, you will meet with a certified peer specialist or recovery coach of your choosing. There will be no other participants … just you and your coach.
Peer Support Solutions
Does your organization want to provide a secure digital peer support platform for your members or employees? Hey Peers combines a video conferencing system with chat support groups so that you can offer both regularly scheduled support group meetings and on-demand facilitated peer chat conversations to support everyday needs.
Find out more about our special offer during social distancing by completing the online form at the link below.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/contact
Facilitators
If you are a Peer Supporter that is affiliated with a non-profit that is using Hey Peers, you can sign up directly on Hey Peers to get started.
If you are a Peer Supporter that is certified, trained, or licensed, please complete our Facilitator Application, and fill out the form below as part of our approval process.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/facilitators
Hey Peers Tools for Support Groups
Hey Peers offers more administrative tools for managing virtual support groups than Zoom, Skype, Facebook, or other teleconferencing or forum tools including but not limited to:
- Groups or one-on-one conversations
- Peer and meeting match recommendations
- Private, password-protected meeting options
- Approve members subscribing to your organization
- Self-wellness tools that help your members see progress
- Share group documents electronically from your Hey Peers page (no more copying, binding, handing out)
- Direct links to schedules and meetings from your web site – easier to track for facilitators and members
- Track group participation rates
- Custom registration data collection available
- Prepare electronic reports to show the positive impact support groups deliver for fundraising, research and program management
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
Survivor Peer Support Warmline
CALL 855-473-3711 (855-4peer11)
A survivor support line is now available to provide telephone support to those who suffer from all levels of brain impairment. 4peer11 is a survivor run, funded, operated and managed-emotional help line. We do not give medical advice, but we DO have two compassionate ears. We have survived some form of brain injury or are a survivor who is significant in the life of a survivor.
Live operators are available from 9am-9pm Pacific Standard Time. If a call comes when an operator is not free please leave a message. Messages are returned on a regular basis.
Website:
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Brain Injury Support Groups in the Pacific Northwest (incl. online and family):
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Recursos en Espanol / Resources in Spanish
https://www.biaoregon.org/resource-library/recursos-en-espanol/
Contact Information:
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
PO Box 549, Molalla OR 97038
Have YOU HAD a brain injury?
Call: 1-800-544-5243 / 503-961-5675
Website Excerpt(s):
Our Neuro-Resource Facilitation expert can help you and your family find answers to your questions. We offer support in coping with the issues of living with a brain injury and transition back to work as well as the community. This is a FREE service dedicated to helping people choose, get and keep needed services and supports.
- Providing brain injury specific information and resources;
- Enhancing natural supports and connecting you to services, and community resources;
- Providing training to providers for increased capacity of Oregon’s system of services provided;
- Accessing, securing and maximizing funding, both private and public.
- Customized Packet (primary resources distributed) by the Neuro-Resource Facilitators, contains important brain injury information as well as various services/supports for individuals and families experiencing brain injury that is unique to each caller.
- Another resource commonly distributed by our staff is a selection of DVDs.
There is a large library of resources, DVDs, videos, and more available. English and Espanol / Spanish. Plus, specific support for veterans.
Oregon TBI / Brain Injury Support Groups (check for availability ahead of time, and find more online from links above)
Bend
Central Oregon Support Group
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Meeting Place:
Rehab Conference Room, Lower Level
St. Charles Medical Center
2500 NE Neff Rd.
Bend, OR 97701
Contacts:
Joyce and Dave Accornero at (541) 382-9451 or Accornero@bendbroadband.com
Brookings
Brain Injury Group (BIG)
To be announced.
Contact:
(877) 469-8844 or (541) 469-8887
Cottage Grove
BIG II (Brain Injury Group II)
This group meets every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
The Jefferson Park Recreation Room
325 S. Fifth Street
Cottage Grove, OR
Contact:
Anna at (541) 767-0845
Corvallis
Stroke and Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Church of the Good Samaritan Lounge
333 NW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
Contact:
Amy Nistico at (541) 768-5157 at aeasterl@samhealth.org
Eugene
Community Rehabilitation Service of Oregon
This group meets on the third Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Central Presbyterian Church
555 E 15th Ave. (15th & Patterson)
Eugene, OR. 97401
Contact:
Jan Johnson at (541) 342-1980 or comrehabjan@aol.com
BIG (Brain Injury Group)
This group meets on Tuesday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Call for information.
Meeting Place:
Hilyard Community Center
2580 Hilyard Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact:
Curtis Brown at (541) 998-3951 or BCCBrown@aol.com
Hillsboro
Homeward Bound Support Group
This group meets on the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Tuality Community Hospital
335 SE 8th Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Contact:
Carol Altman (503) 640-0818
Klamath Falls
Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the second Tuesday from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
SPOKES
415 Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Contact:
Dawn Lytle at (541) 883-7547 or dawn.lytle@spokesunlimited.org
Lebanon
Brain Injury Support Group of Lebanon
This group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
Lebanon Community Hospital,
Conference Room #6
525 North Santiam Highway
Lebanon, OR 97355
Contact:
Lisa Stoffey at (541) 752-0816 or lstoffey@aol.com
Medford
Turning Point
This group meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
11 West Jackson Street
Medford, OR 97501
Contact:
Pam Ogden at (541) 776-3427 or Pamela.Ogden@sogoodwill.org
Southern Oregon Brainstormers Support and Social Club
This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Providence Medical Center
Birthplace Conf. Rm (Main Entrance, turn left)
1111 Crater Lake Avenue
Medford, OR 97504
Contact:
Lorita Cushman at (541) 772-6528 or LORITAMICKCUSH@aol.com
Molalla
Brain Injury Support Group of Molalla
This group meets on the fourth Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Son’light Vital Foods, Inc.
123 Robbins St.
Molalla, OR 97038
Contact:
Raeleah Brensen at (503) 829-9456 or Skeeter@molalla.net
Newport
Brain Injury Support Group of Newport
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Meeting Place:
4909 S Coast Hwy Suite 340
South Beach, Oregon 97366
Website: www.progressive-options.org
Contact:
(541) 867-4335 or progop541@yahoo.com
Oregon City
Clackamas Community College Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the third Friday of the month (during school year) from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Clackamas Community College McLoughlin Hall
Rm. M226 (2nd floor)
Oregon City, OR
Contact:
Sonja Bolon, MA, at (503) 816-1053 or Brain4you2@gmail.com
Pendleton
Inactive at this time.
For more information contact:
Joyce McFarland-Orr at (541) 278-1194 or jmcfarland@Oregontrail.net
Portland
BIRC Alumni Support Group
This group meets the last Tuesday of every odd month.
Address:
1815 SW Marlow, Ste. 110
Portland, 97225
Contact:
Doug Peterson at (503) 292-0765 or doug@progrehab.com
Brainstormers I Women’s Self-help Group
This group meets the second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Wilcox Building
Room A (Next to Good Samaritan Hospital)
2211 NW Marshall St.
Portland 97210
Contact:
Jane Starbird, PhD, at (503) 493-1221 or drstarbird@aol.com
Brainstormers II Survivor Self-help Group
This group meets the third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – noon.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, M.O.B.-West
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Steve Wright at (503) 413-7707 or biaor@biaoregon.org
Crossroads (Brain Injury Discussion Group)
This group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Independent Living Resources
2410 SE 11th
Portland, OR 97214
Contact:
Christopher Eason at 503-232-7411 or christopher@ilr.org
Family Support Group
This group meets on the third Saturday of the month from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. The group is currently combined with Parents of Children with Brain Injury.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, Rm 1035
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Joyce Kerley at (503) 413-7707 or joycek1145@aol.com
Project A.B.L.E. (A Better Life Experience) offering virtual online peer support activities via Zoom.
10am-11am PST | Veterans Coffee with RJ at Project A.B.L.E.
Zoom Link for scheduled event times:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/5433781708
Or call 720-707-2699 and enter Meeting ID# 543-378-1708
Website:
Activities Calendar
https://projectable.org/what-we-do/activities/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ProjectABLEInc/
Veteran Resource Navigator
The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) has a comprehensive online resource guide (VETERAN RESOURCE NAVIGATOR) available to assist veterans in finding the benefits that are most useful to their unique circumstances at this time.
Use the link below for the Veteran Resource Navigator
https://www.oregon.gov/
Other Resources Available to Veterans and Military Service Members
- Veteran Resource Navigator site by ODVA: https://www.oregon.gov/
odva/COVID/Pages/default.aspx - (Oregon) Military Help Line: Call 888-457-4838
- VA Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, press 1.
- VA Confidential crisis chat at net or text to 838255
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.
gov/
If you are a veteran or family member with specific questions not addressed here, or if you need other direct assistance, please contact an ODVA Resource Navigator by calling (503) 373-2085 or toll-free at 1-800-692-9666.
Contact ODVA Headquarters
Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs
700 Summer St NE
Salem, OR 97301
Web: https://www.oregon.gov/odva/Pages/default.aspx
Phone: (800) 692-9666 or (503) 373-2085
Fax: (503) 373-2392
Email: orvetsbenefits@odva.state.or.us
Support Groups Central offers Quality Peer Support
Strength for Your Journey
Group Video Meetings Led by Trained Facilitators
- Online meetings are via Zoom (secured)
- You can get reminders and keep a journal of your progress
>>> Watch this video to learn how it works at:
>>> Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
https://www.SupportGroupsCentral.com
>>> Checkout the list of TOPIC AREAS from a wide variety of organizations including but not limited to:
https://www.supportgroupscentral.com/index.cfm#anc1
Here is a sampling:
- Coping with Stress
- Coping with Chronic Pain
- Grief and Bereavement
- Trauma Healing and Recovery
- Support for Veterans and Military Families
- Support for Expecting Parents
- Postpartum Support
- Depression Recovery
- Anxiety Recovery
- Mental Health & Wellness
- Caregiver Support
- Ministry
- Health Issues
- and many more!
>>> Check out Facebook Page for Support Groups Central:
https://www.facebook.com/SupportGroupsCentral
Other offerings:
Hey Peers! Real Humans. Real Help. Real Time
Hey Peers is a video chat app that allows people to safely browse and join peer support conversations and meetings. You can download the app online for your iPhone device. Android version coming soon. Now available online on the website, too!
Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Meetings List
https://www.heypeers.com/meetings_list
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Chatrooms List
https://www.heypeers.com/chatrooms
Some More About Hey Peers:
Instant community
Create a community of trusted and like-minded peers – those that share similar challenges and experiences, those that want support, and those that give support. Employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, payers, and individuals can set up an instant community and sponsor peer support for their employees, members or loved ones.
Connect with peers
Would you like to connect with peers or supporters between support group meetings? You can do this on Hey Peers. Individuals can quickly find others who they would like to connect with for mutual support. Connections are secure and confidential with an option to remain anonymous.
Progress tracking
Hey Peers offers a premium option to journal and track moods, wellness, exercise, and other key components of mental and physical wellness. The easy recording of key indicators and important treatment information can help one see progress from support. No personal information is shared.
Available on any device
Access Hey Peers on your laptop, tablet, or mobile. No downloads necessary with our mobile responsive web App that works on any device.
Trusted Peer Facilitators
Hey Peers screens peer support facilitators to make sure they have appropriate credentials, and allows users to rate and review peer leaders to ensure high quality peer support.
our users
Who uses Hey Peers?
Any individual or peer supporter can sign up and use Hey Peers. We also designed our App for small, midsize, and large employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, and insurers to use Hey Peers for their members and employees to improve wellness outcomes in a safe and purpose-build environment.
1:1 Peer Support Coaching
1:1 Peer Coaching is a way for you to work more intensively toward achieving and maintaining yourself as you deal with your life’s challenges. In our 1:1 sessions, you will meet with a certified peer specialist or recovery coach of your choosing. There will be no other participants … just you and your coach.
Peer Support Solutions
Does your organization want to provide a secure digital peer support platform for your members or employees? Hey Peers combines a video conferencing system with chat support groups so that you can offer both regularly scheduled support group meetings and on-demand facilitated peer chat conversations to support everyday needs.
Find out more about our special offer during social distancing by completing the online form at the link below.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/contact
Facilitators
If you are a Peer Supporter that is affiliated with a non-profit that is using Hey Peers, you can sign up directly on Hey Peers to get started.
If you are a Peer Supporter that is certified, trained, or licensed, please complete our Facilitator Application, and fill out the form below as part of our approval process.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/facilitators
Hey Peers Tools for Support Groups
Hey Peers offers more administrative tools for managing virtual support groups than Zoom, Skype, Facebook, or other teleconferencing or forum tools including but not limited to:
- Groups or one-on-one conversations
- Peer and meeting match recommendations
- Private, password-protected meeting options
- Approve members subscribing to your organization
- Self-wellness tools that help your members see progress
- Share group documents electronically from your Hey Peers page (no more copying, binding, handing out)
- Direct links to schedules and meetings from your web site – easier to track for facilitators and members
- Track group participation rates
- Custom registration data collection available
- Prepare electronic reports to show the positive impact support groups deliver for fundraising, research and program management
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
Survivor Peer Support Warmline
CALL 855-473-3711 (855-4peer11)
A survivor support line is now available to provide telephone support to those who suffer from all levels of brain impairment. 4peer11 is a survivor run, funded, operated and managed-emotional help line. We do not give medical advice, but we DO have two compassionate ears. We have survived some form of brain injury or are a survivor who is significant in the life of a survivor.
Live operators are available from 9am-9pm Pacific Standard Time. If a call comes when an operator is not free please leave a message. Messages are returned on a regular basis.
Website:
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Brain Injury Support Groups in the Pacific Northwest (incl. online and family):
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Recursos en Espanol / Resources in Spanish
https://www.biaoregon.org/resource-library/recursos-en-espanol/
Contact Information:
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
PO Box 549, Molalla OR 97038
Have YOU HAD a brain injury?
Call: 1-800-544-5243 / 503-961-5675
Website Excerpt(s):
Our Neuro-Resource Facilitation expert can help you and your family find answers to your questions. We offer support in coping with the issues of living with a brain injury and transition back to work as well as the community. This is a FREE service dedicated to helping people choose, get and keep needed services and supports.
- Providing brain injury specific information and resources;
- Enhancing natural supports and connecting you to services, and community resources;
- Providing training to providers for increased capacity of Oregon’s system of services provided;
- Accessing, securing and maximizing funding, both private and public.
- Customized Packet (primary resources distributed) by the Neuro-Resource Facilitators, contains important brain injury information as well as various services/supports for individuals and families experiencing brain injury that is unique to each caller.
- Another resource commonly distributed by our staff is a selection of DVDs.
There is a large library of resources, DVDs, videos, and more available. English and Espanol / Spanish. Plus, specific support for veterans.
Oregon TBI / Brain Injury Support Groups (check for availability ahead of time, and find more online from links above)
Bend
Central Oregon Support Group
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Meeting Place:
Rehab Conference Room, Lower Level
St. Charles Medical Center
2500 NE Neff Rd.
Bend, OR 97701
Contacts:
Joyce and Dave Accornero at (541) 382-9451 or Accornero@bendbroadband.com
Brookings
Brain Injury Group (BIG)
To be announced.
Contact:
(877) 469-8844 or (541) 469-8887
Cottage Grove
BIG II (Brain Injury Group II)
This group meets every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
The Jefferson Park Recreation Room
325 S. Fifth Street
Cottage Grove, OR
Contact:
Anna at (541) 767-0845
Corvallis
Stroke and Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Church of the Good Samaritan Lounge
333 NW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
Contact:
Amy Nistico at (541) 768-5157 at aeasterl@samhealth.org
Eugene
Community Rehabilitation Service of Oregon
This group meets on the third Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Central Presbyterian Church
555 E 15th Ave. (15th & Patterson)
Eugene, OR. 97401
Contact:
Jan Johnson at (541) 342-1980 or comrehabjan@aol.com
BIG (Brain Injury Group)
This group meets on Tuesday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Call for information.
Meeting Place:
Hilyard Community Center
2580 Hilyard Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact:
Curtis Brown at (541) 998-3951 or BCCBrown@aol.com
Hillsboro
Homeward Bound Support Group
This group meets on the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Tuality Community Hospital
335 SE 8th Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Contact:
Carol Altman (503) 640-0818
Klamath Falls
Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the second Tuesday from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
SPOKES
415 Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Contact:
Dawn Lytle at (541) 883-7547 or dawn.lytle@spokesunlimited.org
Lebanon
Brain Injury Support Group of Lebanon
This group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
Lebanon Community Hospital,
Conference Room #6
525 North Santiam Highway
Lebanon, OR 97355
Contact:
Lisa Stoffey at (541) 752-0816 or lstoffey@aol.com
Medford
Turning Point
This group meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
11 West Jackson Street
Medford, OR 97501
Contact:
Pam Ogden at (541) 776-3427 or Pamela.Ogden@sogoodwill.org
Southern Oregon Brainstormers Support and Social Club
This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Providence Medical Center
Birthplace Conf. Rm (Main Entrance, turn left)
1111 Crater Lake Avenue
Medford, OR 97504
Contact:
Lorita Cushman at (541) 772-6528 or LORITAMICKCUSH@aol.com
Molalla
Brain Injury Support Group of Molalla
This group meets on the fourth Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Son’light Vital Foods, Inc.
123 Robbins St.
Molalla, OR 97038
Contact:
Raeleah Brensen at (503) 829-9456 or Skeeter@molalla.net
Newport
Brain Injury Support Group of Newport
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Meeting Place:
4909 S Coast Hwy Suite 340
South Beach, Oregon 97366
Website: www.progressive-options.org
Contact:
(541) 867-4335 or progop541@yahoo.com
Oregon City
Clackamas Community College Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the third Friday of the month (during school year) from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Clackamas Community College McLoughlin Hall
Rm. M226 (2nd floor)
Oregon City, OR
Contact:
Sonja Bolon, MA, at (503) 816-1053 or Brain4you2@gmail.com
Pendleton
Inactive at this time.
For more information contact:
Joyce McFarland-Orr at (541) 278-1194 or jmcfarland@Oregontrail.net
Portland
BIRC Alumni Support Group
This group meets the last Tuesday of every odd month.
Address:
1815 SW Marlow, Ste. 110
Portland, 97225
Contact:
Doug Peterson at (503) 292-0765 or doug@progrehab.com
Brainstormers I Women’s Self-help Group
This group meets the second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Wilcox Building
Room A (Next to Good Samaritan Hospital)
2211 NW Marshall St.
Portland 97210
Contact:
Jane Starbird, PhD, at (503) 493-1221 or drstarbird@aol.com
Brainstormers II Survivor Self-help Group
This group meets the third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – noon.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, M.O.B.-West
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Steve Wright at (503) 413-7707 or biaor@biaoregon.org
Crossroads (Brain Injury Discussion Group)
This group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Independent Living Resources
2410 SE 11th
Portland, OR 97214
Contact:
Christopher Eason at 503-232-7411 or christopher@ilr.org
Family Support Group
This group meets on the third Saturday of the month from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. The group is currently combined with Parents of Children with Brain Injury.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, Rm 1035
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Joyce Kerley at (503) 413-7707 or joycek1145@aol.com
Veteran Resource Navigator
The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) has a comprehensive online resource guide (VETERAN RESOURCE NAVIGATOR) available to assist veterans in finding the benefits that are most useful to their unique circumstances at this time.
Use the link below for the Veteran Resource Navigator
https://www.oregon.gov/
Other Resources Available to Veterans and Military Service Members
- Veteran Resource Navigator site by ODVA: https://www.oregon.gov/
odva/COVID/Pages/default.aspx - (Oregon) Military Help Line: Call 888-457-4838
- VA Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, press 1.
- VA Confidential crisis chat at net or text to 838255
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.
gov/
If you are a veteran or family member with specific questions not addressed here, or if you need other direct assistance, please contact an ODVA Resource Navigator by calling (503) 373-2085 or toll-free at 1-800-692-9666.
Contact ODVA Headquarters
Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs
700 Summer St NE
Salem, OR 97301
Web: https://www.oregon.gov/odva/Pages/default.aspx
Phone: (800) 692-9666 or (503) 373-2085
Fax: (503) 373-2392
Email: orvetsbenefits@odva.state.or.us
Support Groups Central offers Quality Peer Support
Strength for Your Journey
Group Video Meetings Led by Trained Facilitators
- Online meetings are via Zoom (secured)
- You can get reminders and keep a journal of your progress
>>> Watch this video to learn how it works at:
>>> Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
https://www.SupportGroupsCentral.com
>>> Checkout the list of TOPIC AREAS from a wide variety of organizations including but not limited to:
https://www.supportgroupscentral.com/index.cfm#anc1
Here is a sampling:
- Coping with Stress
- Coping with Chronic Pain
- Grief and Bereavement
- Trauma Healing and Recovery
- Support for Veterans and Military Families
- Support for Expecting Parents
- Postpartum Support
- Depression Recovery
- Anxiety Recovery
- Mental Health & Wellness
- Caregiver Support
- Ministry
- Health Issues
- and many more!
>>> Check out Facebook Page for Support Groups Central:
https://www.facebook.com/SupportGroupsCentral
Other offerings:
Hey Peers! Real Humans. Real Help. Real Time
Hey Peers is a video chat app that allows people to safely browse and join peer support conversations and meetings. You can download the app online for your iPhone device. Android version coming soon. Now available online on the website, too!
Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Meetings List
https://www.heypeers.com/meetings_list
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Chatrooms List
https://www.heypeers.com/chatrooms
Some More About Hey Peers:
Instant community
Create a community of trusted and like-minded peers – those that share similar challenges and experiences, those that want support, and those that give support. Employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, payers, and individuals can set up an instant community and sponsor peer support for their employees, members or loved ones.
Connect with peers
Would you like to connect with peers or supporters between support group meetings? You can do this on Hey Peers. Individuals can quickly find others who they would like to connect with for mutual support. Connections are secure and confidential with an option to remain anonymous.
Progress tracking
Hey Peers offers a premium option to journal and track moods, wellness, exercise, and other key components of mental and physical wellness. The easy recording of key indicators and important treatment information can help one see progress from support. No personal information is shared.
Available on any device
Access Hey Peers on your laptop, tablet, or mobile. No downloads necessary with our mobile responsive web App that works on any device.
Trusted Peer Facilitators
Hey Peers screens peer support facilitators to make sure they have appropriate credentials, and allows users to rate and review peer leaders to ensure high quality peer support.
our users
Who uses Hey Peers?
Any individual or peer supporter can sign up and use Hey Peers. We also designed our App for small, midsize, and large employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, and insurers to use Hey Peers for their members and employees to improve wellness outcomes in a safe and purpose-build environment.
1:1 Peer Support Coaching
1:1 Peer Coaching is a way for you to work more intensively toward achieving and maintaining yourself as you deal with your life’s challenges. In our 1:1 sessions, you will meet with a certified peer specialist or recovery coach of your choosing. There will be no other participants … just you and your coach.
Peer Support Solutions
Does your organization want to provide a secure digital peer support platform for your members or employees? Hey Peers combines a video conferencing system with chat support groups so that you can offer both regularly scheduled support group meetings and on-demand facilitated peer chat conversations to support everyday needs.
Find out more about our special offer during social distancing by completing the online form at the link below.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/contact
Facilitators
If you are a Peer Supporter that is affiliated with a non-profit that is using Hey Peers, you can sign up directly on Hey Peers to get started.
If you are a Peer Supporter that is certified, trained, or licensed, please complete our Facilitator Application, and fill out the form below as part of our approval process.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/facilitators
Hey Peers Tools for Support Groups
Hey Peers offers more administrative tools for managing virtual support groups than Zoom, Skype, Facebook, or other teleconferencing or forum tools including but not limited to:
- Groups or one-on-one conversations
- Peer and meeting match recommendations
- Private, password-protected meeting options
- Approve members subscribing to your organization
- Self-wellness tools that help your members see progress
- Share group documents electronically from your Hey Peers page (no more copying, binding, handing out)
- Direct links to schedules and meetings from your web site – easier to track for facilitators and members
- Track group participation rates
- Custom registration data collection available
- Prepare electronic reports to show the positive impact support groups deliver for fundraising, research and program management
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
Survivor Peer Support Warmline
CALL 855-473-3711 (855-4peer11)
A survivor support line is now available to provide telephone support to those who suffer from all levels of brain impairment. 4peer11 is a survivor run, funded, operated and managed-emotional help line. We do not give medical advice, but we DO have two compassionate ears. We have survived some form of brain injury or are a survivor who is significant in the life of a survivor.
Live operators are available from 9am-9pm Pacific Standard Time. If a call comes when an operator is not free please leave a message. Messages are returned on a regular basis.
Website:
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Brain Injury Support Groups in the Pacific Northwest (incl. online and family):
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Recursos en Espanol / Resources in Spanish
https://www.biaoregon.org/resource-library/recursos-en-espanol/
Contact Information:
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
PO Box 549, Molalla OR 97038
Have YOU HAD a brain injury?
Call: 1-800-544-5243 / 503-961-5675
Website Excerpt(s):
Our Neuro-Resource Facilitation expert can help you and your family find answers to your questions. We offer support in coping with the issues of living with a brain injury and transition back to work as well as the community. This is a FREE service dedicated to helping people choose, get and keep needed services and supports.
- Providing brain injury specific information and resources;
- Enhancing natural supports and connecting you to services, and community resources;
- Providing training to providers for increased capacity of Oregon’s system of services provided;
- Accessing, securing and maximizing funding, both private and public.
- Customized Packet (primary resources distributed) by the Neuro-Resource Facilitators, contains important brain injury information as well as various services/supports for individuals and families experiencing brain injury that is unique to each caller.
- Another resource commonly distributed by our staff is a selection of DVDs.
There is a large library of resources, DVDs, videos, and more available. English and Espanol / Spanish. Plus, specific support for veterans.
Oregon TBI / Brain Injury Support Groups (check for availability ahead of time, and find more online from links above)
Bend
Central Oregon Support Group
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Meeting Place:
Rehab Conference Room, Lower Level
St. Charles Medical Center
2500 NE Neff Rd.
Bend, OR 97701
Contacts:
Joyce and Dave Accornero at (541) 382-9451 or Accornero@bendbroadband.com
Brookings
Brain Injury Group (BIG)
To be announced.
Contact:
(877) 469-8844 or (541) 469-8887
Cottage Grove
BIG II (Brain Injury Group II)
This group meets every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
The Jefferson Park Recreation Room
325 S. Fifth Street
Cottage Grove, OR
Contact:
Anna at (541) 767-0845
Corvallis
Stroke and Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Church of the Good Samaritan Lounge
333 NW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
Contact:
Amy Nistico at (541) 768-5157 at aeasterl@samhealth.org
Eugene
Community Rehabilitation Service of Oregon
This group meets on the third Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Central Presbyterian Church
555 E 15th Ave. (15th & Patterson)
Eugene, OR. 97401
Contact:
Jan Johnson at (541) 342-1980 or comrehabjan@aol.com
BIG (Brain Injury Group)
This group meets on Tuesday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Call for information.
Meeting Place:
Hilyard Community Center
2580 Hilyard Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact:
Curtis Brown at (541) 998-3951 or BCCBrown@aol.com
Hillsboro
Homeward Bound Support Group
This group meets on the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Tuality Community Hospital
335 SE 8th Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Contact:
Carol Altman (503) 640-0818
Klamath Falls
Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the second Tuesday from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
SPOKES
415 Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Contact:
Dawn Lytle at (541) 883-7547 or dawn.lytle@spokesunlimited.org
Lebanon
Brain Injury Support Group of Lebanon
This group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
Lebanon Community Hospital,
Conference Room #6
525 North Santiam Highway
Lebanon, OR 97355
Contact:
Lisa Stoffey at (541) 752-0816 or lstoffey@aol.com
Medford
Turning Point
This group meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
11 West Jackson Street
Medford, OR 97501
Contact:
Pam Ogden at (541) 776-3427 or Pamela.Ogden@sogoodwill.org
Southern Oregon Brainstormers Support and Social Club
This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Providence Medical Center
Birthplace Conf. Rm (Main Entrance, turn left)
1111 Crater Lake Avenue
Medford, OR 97504
Contact:
Lorita Cushman at (541) 772-6528 or LORITAMICKCUSH@aol.com
Molalla
Brain Injury Support Group of Molalla
This group meets on the fourth Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Son’light Vital Foods, Inc.
123 Robbins St.
Molalla, OR 97038
Contact:
Raeleah Brensen at (503) 829-9456 or Skeeter@molalla.net
Newport
Brain Injury Support Group of Newport
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Meeting Place:
4909 S Coast Hwy Suite 340
South Beach, Oregon 97366
Website: www.progressive-options.org
Contact:
(541) 867-4335 or progop541@yahoo.com
Oregon City
Clackamas Community College Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the third Friday of the month (during school year) from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Clackamas Community College McLoughlin Hall
Rm. M226 (2nd floor)
Oregon City, OR
Contact:
Sonja Bolon, MA, at (503) 816-1053 or Brain4you2@gmail.com
Pendleton
Inactive at this time.
For more information contact:
Joyce McFarland-Orr at (541) 278-1194 or jmcfarland@Oregontrail.net
Portland
BIRC Alumni Support Group
This group meets the last Tuesday of every odd month.
Address:
1815 SW Marlow, Ste. 110
Portland, 97225
Contact:
Doug Peterson at (503) 292-0765 or doug@progrehab.com
Brainstormers I Women’s Self-help Group
This group meets the second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Wilcox Building
Room A (Next to Good Samaritan Hospital)
2211 NW Marshall St.
Portland 97210
Contact:
Jane Starbird, PhD, at (503) 493-1221 or drstarbird@aol.com
Brainstormers II Survivor Self-help Group
This group meets the third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – noon.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, M.O.B.-West
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Steve Wright at (503) 413-7707 or biaor@biaoregon.org
Crossroads (Brain Injury Discussion Group)
This group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Independent Living Resources
2410 SE 11th
Portland, OR 97214
Contact:
Christopher Eason at 503-232-7411 or christopher@ilr.org
Family Support Group
This group meets on the third Saturday of the month from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. The group is currently combined with Parents of Children with Brain Injury.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, Rm 1035
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Joyce Kerley at (503) 413-7707 or joycek1145@aol.com
Veteran Resource Navigator
The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) has a comprehensive online resource guide (VETERAN RESOURCE NAVIGATOR) available to assist veterans in finding the benefits that are most useful to their unique circumstances at this time.
Use the link below for the Veteran Resource Navigator
https://www.oregon.gov/
Other Resources Available to Veterans and Military Service Members
- Veteran Resource Navigator site by ODVA: https://www.oregon.gov/
odva/COVID/Pages/default.aspx - (Oregon) Military Help Line: Call 888-457-4838
- VA Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, press 1.
- VA Confidential crisis chat at net or text to 838255
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.
gov/
If you are a veteran or family member with specific questions not addressed here, or if you need other direct assistance, please contact an ODVA Resource Navigator by calling (503) 373-2085 or toll-free at 1-800-692-9666.
Contact ODVA Headquarters
Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs
700 Summer St NE
Salem, OR 97301
Web: https://www.oregon.gov/odva/Pages/default.aspx
Phone: (800) 692-9666 or (503) 373-2085
Fax: (503) 373-2392
Email: orvetsbenefits@odva.state.or.us
Support Groups Central offers Quality Peer Support
Strength for Your Journey
Group Video Meetings Led by Trained Facilitators
- Online meetings are via Zoom (secured)
- You can get reminders and keep a journal of your progress
>>> Watch this video to learn how it works at:
>>> Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
https://www.SupportGroupsCentral.com
>>> Checkout the list of TOPIC AREAS from a wide variety of organizations including but not limited to:
https://www.supportgroupscentral.com/index.cfm#anc1
Here is a sampling:
- Coping with Stress
- Coping with Chronic Pain
- Grief and Bereavement
- Trauma Healing and Recovery
- Support for Veterans and Military Families
- Support for Expecting Parents
- Postpartum Support
- Depression Recovery
- Anxiety Recovery
- Mental Health & Wellness
- Caregiver Support
- Ministry
- Health Issues
- and many more!
>>> Check out Facebook Page for Support Groups Central:
https://www.facebook.com/SupportGroupsCentral
Other offerings:
Hey Peers! Real Humans. Real Help. Real Time
Hey Peers is a video chat app that allows people to safely browse and join peer support conversations and meetings. You can download the app online for your iPhone device. Android version coming soon. Now available online on the website, too!
Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Meetings List
https://www.heypeers.com/meetings_list
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Chatrooms List
https://www.heypeers.com/chatrooms
Some More About Hey Peers:
Instant community
Create a community of trusted and like-minded peers – those that share similar challenges and experiences, those that want support, and those that give support. Employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, payers, and individuals can set up an instant community and sponsor peer support for their employees, members or loved ones.
Connect with peers
Would you like to connect with peers or supporters between support group meetings? You can do this on Hey Peers. Individuals can quickly find others who they would like to connect with for mutual support. Connections are secure and confidential with an option to remain anonymous.
Progress tracking
Hey Peers offers a premium option to journal and track moods, wellness, exercise, and other key components of mental and physical wellness. The easy recording of key indicators and important treatment information can help one see progress from support. No personal information is shared.
Available on any device
Access Hey Peers on your laptop, tablet, or mobile. No downloads necessary with our mobile responsive web App that works on any device.
Trusted Peer Facilitators
Hey Peers screens peer support facilitators to make sure they have appropriate credentials, and allows users to rate and review peer leaders to ensure high quality peer support.
our users
Who uses Hey Peers?
Any individual or peer supporter can sign up and use Hey Peers. We also designed our App for small, midsize, and large employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, and insurers to use Hey Peers for their members and employees to improve wellness outcomes in a safe and purpose-build environment.
1:1 Peer Support Coaching
1:1 Peer Coaching is a way for you to work more intensively toward achieving and maintaining yourself as you deal with your life’s challenges. In our 1:1 sessions, you will meet with a certified peer specialist or recovery coach of your choosing. There will be no other participants … just you and your coach.
Peer Support Solutions
Does your organization want to provide a secure digital peer support platform for your members or employees? Hey Peers combines a video conferencing system with chat support groups so that you can offer both regularly scheduled support group meetings and on-demand facilitated peer chat conversations to support everyday needs.
Find out more about our special offer during social distancing by completing the online form at the link below.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/contact
Facilitators
If you are a Peer Supporter that is affiliated with a non-profit that is using Hey Peers, you can sign up directly on Hey Peers to get started.
If you are a Peer Supporter that is certified, trained, or licensed, please complete our Facilitator Application, and fill out the form below as part of our approval process.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/facilitators
Hey Peers Tools for Support Groups
Hey Peers offers more administrative tools for managing virtual support groups than Zoom, Skype, Facebook, or other teleconferencing or forum tools including but not limited to:
- Groups or one-on-one conversations
- Peer and meeting match recommendations
- Private, password-protected meeting options
- Approve members subscribing to your organization
- Self-wellness tools that help your members see progress
- Share group documents electronically from your Hey Peers page (no more copying, binding, handing out)
- Direct links to schedules and meetings from your web site – easier to track for facilitators and members
- Track group participation rates
- Custom registration data collection available
- Prepare electronic reports to show the positive impact support groups deliver for fundraising, research and program management
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
Survivor Peer Support Warmline
CALL 855-473-3711 (855-4peer11)
A survivor support line is now available to provide telephone support to those who suffer from all levels of brain impairment. 4peer11 is a survivor run, funded, operated and managed-emotional help line. We do not give medical advice, but we DO have two compassionate ears. We have survived some form of brain injury or are a survivor who is significant in the life of a survivor.
Live operators are available from 9am-9pm Pacific Standard Time. If a call comes when an operator is not free please leave a message. Messages are returned on a regular basis.
Website:
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Brain Injury Support Groups in the Pacific Northwest (incl. online and family):
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Recursos en Espanol / Resources in Spanish
https://www.biaoregon.org/resource-library/recursos-en-espanol/
Contact Information:
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
PO Box 549, Molalla OR 97038
Have YOU HAD a brain injury?
Call: 1-800-544-5243 / 503-961-5675
Website Excerpt(s):
Our Neuro-Resource Facilitation expert can help you and your family find answers to your questions. We offer support in coping with the issues of living with a brain injury and transition back to work as well as the community. This is a FREE service dedicated to helping people choose, get and keep needed services and supports.
- Providing brain injury specific information and resources;
- Enhancing natural supports and connecting you to services, and community resources;
- Providing training to providers for increased capacity of Oregon’s system of services provided;
- Accessing, securing and maximizing funding, both private and public.
- Customized Packet (primary resources distributed) by the Neuro-Resource Facilitators, contains important brain injury information as well as various services/supports for individuals and families experiencing brain injury that is unique to each caller.
- Another resource commonly distributed by our staff is a selection of DVDs.
There is a large library of resources, DVDs, videos, and more available. English and Espanol / Spanish. Plus, specific support for veterans.
Oregon TBI / Brain Injury Support Groups (check for availability ahead of time, and find more online from links above)
Bend
Central Oregon Support Group
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Meeting Place:
Rehab Conference Room, Lower Level
St. Charles Medical Center
2500 NE Neff Rd.
Bend, OR 97701
Contacts:
Joyce and Dave Accornero at (541) 382-9451 or Accornero@bendbroadband.com
Brookings
Brain Injury Group (BIG)
To be announced.
Contact:
(877) 469-8844 or (541) 469-8887
Cottage Grove
BIG II (Brain Injury Group II)
This group meets every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
The Jefferson Park Recreation Room
325 S. Fifth Street
Cottage Grove, OR
Contact:
Anna at (541) 767-0845
Corvallis
Stroke and Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Church of the Good Samaritan Lounge
333 NW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
Contact:
Amy Nistico at (541) 768-5157 at aeasterl@samhealth.org
Eugene
Community Rehabilitation Service of Oregon
This group meets on the third Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Central Presbyterian Church
555 E 15th Ave. (15th & Patterson)
Eugene, OR. 97401
Contact:
Jan Johnson at (541) 342-1980 or comrehabjan@aol.com
BIG (Brain Injury Group)
This group meets on Tuesday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Call for information.
Meeting Place:
Hilyard Community Center
2580 Hilyard Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact:
Curtis Brown at (541) 998-3951 or BCCBrown@aol.com
Hillsboro
Homeward Bound Support Group
This group meets on the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Tuality Community Hospital
335 SE 8th Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Contact:
Carol Altman (503) 640-0818
Klamath Falls
Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the second Tuesday from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
SPOKES
415 Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Contact:
Dawn Lytle at (541) 883-7547 or dawn.lytle@spokesunlimited.org
Lebanon
Brain Injury Support Group of Lebanon
This group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
Lebanon Community Hospital,
Conference Room #6
525 North Santiam Highway
Lebanon, OR 97355
Contact:
Lisa Stoffey at (541) 752-0816 or lstoffey@aol.com
Medford
Turning Point
This group meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
11 West Jackson Street
Medford, OR 97501
Contact:
Pam Ogden at (541) 776-3427 or Pamela.Ogden@sogoodwill.org
Southern Oregon Brainstormers Support and Social Club
This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Providence Medical Center
Birthplace Conf. Rm (Main Entrance, turn left)
1111 Crater Lake Avenue
Medford, OR 97504
Contact:
Lorita Cushman at (541) 772-6528 or LORITAMICKCUSH@aol.com
Molalla
Brain Injury Support Group of Molalla
This group meets on the fourth Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Son’light Vital Foods, Inc.
123 Robbins St.
Molalla, OR 97038
Contact:
Raeleah Brensen at (503) 829-9456 or Skeeter@molalla.net
Newport
Brain Injury Support Group of Newport
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Meeting Place:
4909 S Coast Hwy Suite 340
South Beach, Oregon 97366
Website: www.progressive-options.org
Contact:
(541) 867-4335 or progop541@yahoo.com
Oregon City
Clackamas Community College Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the third Friday of the month (during school year) from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Clackamas Community College McLoughlin Hall
Rm. M226 (2nd floor)
Oregon City, OR
Contact:
Sonja Bolon, MA, at (503) 816-1053 or Brain4you2@gmail.com
Pendleton
Inactive at this time.
For more information contact:
Joyce McFarland-Orr at (541) 278-1194 or jmcfarland@Oregontrail.net
Portland
BIRC Alumni Support Group
This group meets the last Tuesday of every odd month.
Address:
1815 SW Marlow, Ste. 110
Portland, 97225
Contact:
Doug Peterson at (503) 292-0765 or doug@progrehab.com
Brainstormers I Women’s Self-help Group
This group meets the second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Wilcox Building
Room A (Next to Good Samaritan Hospital)
2211 NW Marshall St.
Portland 97210
Contact:
Jane Starbird, PhD, at (503) 493-1221 or drstarbird@aol.com
Brainstormers II Survivor Self-help Group
This group meets the third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – noon.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, M.O.B.-West
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Steve Wright at (503) 413-7707 or biaor@biaoregon.org
Crossroads (Brain Injury Discussion Group)
This group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Independent Living Resources
2410 SE 11th
Portland, OR 97214
Contact:
Christopher Eason at 503-232-7411 or christopher@ilr.org
Family Support Group
This group meets on the third Saturday of the month from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. The group is currently combined with Parents of Children with Brain Injury.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, Rm 1035
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Joyce Kerley at (503) 413-7707 or joycek1145@aol.com
Veteran Resource Navigator
The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) has a comprehensive online resource guide (VETERAN RESOURCE NAVIGATOR) available to assist veterans in finding the benefits that are most useful to their unique circumstances at this time.
Use the link below for the Veteran Resource Navigator
https://www.oregon.gov/
Other Resources Available to Veterans and Military Service Members
- Veteran Resource Navigator site by ODVA: https://www.oregon.gov/
odva/COVID/Pages/default.aspx - (Oregon) Military Help Line: Call 888-457-4838
- VA Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, press 1.
- VA Confidential crisis chat at net or text to 838255
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.
gov/
If you are a veteran or family member with specific questions not addressed here, or if you need other direct assistance, please contact an ODVA Resource Navigator by calling (503) 373-2085 or toll-free at 1-800-692-9666.
Contact ODVA Headquarters
Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs
700 Summer St NE
Salem, OR 97301
Web: https://www.oregon.gov/odva/Pages/default.aspx
Phone: (800) 692-9666 or (503) 373-2085
Fax: (503) 373-2392
Email: orvetsbenefits@odva.state.or.us
Support Groups Central offers Quality Peer Support
Strength for Your Journey
Group Video Meetings Led by Trained Facilitators
- Online meetings are via Zoom (secured)
- You can get reminders and keep a journal of your progress
>>> Watch this video to learn how it works at:
>>> Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
https://www.SupportGroupsCentral.com
>>> Checkout the list of TOPIC AREAS from a wide variety of organizations including but not limited to:
https://www.supportgroupscentral.com/index.cfm#anc1
Here is a sampling:
- Coping with Stress
- Coping with Chronic Pain
- Grief and Bereavement
- Trauma Healing and Recovery
- Support for Veterans and Military Families
- Support for Expecting Parents
- Postpartum Support
- Depression Recovery
- Anxiety Recovery
- Mental Health & Wellness
- Caregiver Support
- Ministry
- Health Issues
- and many more!
>>> Check out Facebook Page for Support Groups Central:
https://www.facebook.com/SupportGroupsCentral
Other offerings:
Hey Peers! Real Humans. Real Help. Real Time
Hey Peers is a video chat app that allows people to safely browse and join peer support conversations and meetings. You can download the app online for your iPhone device. Android version coming soon. Now available online on the website, too!
Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Meetings List
https://www.heypeers.com/meetings_list
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Chatrooms List
https://www.heypeers.com/chatrooms
Some More About Hey Peers:
Instant community
Create a community of trusted and like-minded peers – those that share similar challenges and experiences, those that want support, and those that give support. Employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, payers, and individuals can set up an instant community and sponsor peer support for their employees, members or loved ones.
Connect with peers
Would you like to connect with peers or supporters between support group meetings? You can do this on Hey Peers. Individuals can quickly find others who they would like to connect with for mutual support. Connections are secure and confidential with an option to remain anonymous.
Progress tracking
Hey Peers offers a premium option to journal and track moods, wellness, exercise, and other key components of mental and physical wellness. The easy recording of key indicators and important treatment information can help one see progress from support. No personal information is shared.
Available on any device
Access Hey Peers on your laptop, tablet, or mobile. No downloads necessary with our mobile responsive web App that works on any device.
Trusted Peer Facilitators
Hey Peers screens peer support facilitators to make sure they have appropriate credentials, and allows users to rate and review peer leaders to ensure high quality peer support.
our users
Who uses Hey Peers?
Any individual or peer supporter can sign up and use Hey Peers. We also designed our App for small, midsize, and large employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, and insurers to use Hey Peers for their members and employees to improve wellness outcomes in a safe and purpose-build environment.
1:1 Peer Support Coaching
1:1 Peer Coaching is a way for you to work more intensively toward achieving and maintaining yourself as you deal with your life’s challenges. In our 1:1 sessions, you will meet with a certified peer specialist or recovery coach of your choosing. There will be no other participants … just you and your coach.
Peer Support Solutions
Does your organization want to provide a secure digital peer support platform for your members or employees? Hey Peers combines a video conferencing system with chat support groups so that you can offer both regularly scheduled support group meetings and on-demand facilitated peer chat conversations to support everyday needs.
Find out more about our special offer during social distancing by completing the online form at the link below.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/contact
Facilitators
If you are a Peer Supporter that is affiliated with a non-profit that is using Hey Peers, you can sign up directly on Hey Peers to get started.
If you are a Peer Supporter that is certified, trained, or licensed, please complete our Facilitator Application, and fill out the form below as part of our approval process.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/facilitators
Hey Peers Tools for Support Groups
Hey Peers offers more administrative tools for managing virtual support groups than Zoom, Skype, Facebook, or other teleconferencing or forum tools including but not limited to:
- Groups or one-on-one conversations
- Peer and meeting match recommendations
- Private, password-protected meeting options
- Approve members subscribing to your organization
- Self-wellness tools that help your members see progress
- Share group documents electronically from your Hey Peers page (no more copying, binding, handing out)
- Direct links to schedules and meetings from your web site – easier to track for facilitators and members
- Track group participation rates
- Custom registration data collection available
- Prepare electronic reports to show the positive impact support groups deliver for fundraising, research and program management
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
Survivor Peer Support Warmline
CALL 855-473-3711 (855-4peer11)
A survivor support line is now available to provide telephone support to those who suffer from all levels of brain impairment. 4peer11 is a survivor run, funded, operated and managed-emotional help line. We do not give medical advice, but we DO have two compassionate ears. We have survived some form of brain injury or are a survivor who is significant in the life of a survivor.
Live operators are available from 9am-9pm Pacific Standard Time. If a call comes when an operator is not free please leave a message. Messages are returned on a regular basis.
Website:
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Brain Injury Support Groups in the Pacific Northwest (incl. online and family):
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Recursos en Espanol / Resources in Spanish
https://www.biaoregon.org/resource-library/recursos-en-espanol/
Contact Information:
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
PO Box 549, Molalla OR 97038
Have YOU HAD a brain injury?
Call: 1-800-544-5243 / 503-961-5675
Website Excerpt(s):
Our Neuro-Resource Facilitation expert can help you and your family find answers to your questions. We offer support in coping with the issues of living with a brain injury and transition back to work as well as the community. This is a FREE service dedicated to helping people choose, get and keep needed services and supports.
- Providing brain injury specific information and resources;
- Enhancing natural supports and connecting you to services, and community resources;
- Providing training to providers for increased capacity of Oregon’s system of services provided;
- Accessing, securing and maximizing funding, both private and public.
- Customized Packet (primary resources distributed) by the Neuro-Resource Facilitators, contains important brain injury information as well as various services/supports for individuals and families experiencing brain injury that is unique to each caller.
- Another resource commonly distributed by our staff is a selection of DVDs.
There is a large library of resources, DVDs, videos, and more available. English and Espanol / Spanish. Plus, specific support for veterans.
Oregon TBI / Brain Injury Support Groups (check for availability ahead of time, and find more online from links above)
Bend
Central Oregon Support Group
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Meeting Place:
Rehab Conference Room, Lower Level
St. Charles Medical Center
2500 NE Neff Rd.
Bend, OR 97701
Contacts:
Joyce and Dave Accornero at (541) 382-9451 or Accornero@bendbroadband.com
Brookings
Brain Injury Group (BIG)
To be announced.
Contact:
(877) 469-8844 or (541) 469-8887
Cottage Grove
BIG II (Brain Injury Group II)
This group meets every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
The Jefferson Park Recreation Room
325 S. Fifth Street
Cottage Grove, OR
Contact:
Anna at (541) 767-0845
Corvallis
Stroke and Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Church of the Good Samaritan Lounge
333 NW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
Contact:
Amy Nistico at (541) 768-5157 at aeasterl@samhealth.org
Eugene
Community Rehabilitation Service of Oregon
This group meets on the third Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Central Presbyterian Church
555 E 15th Ave. (15th & Patterson)
Eugene, OR. 97401
Contact:
Jan Johnson at (541) 342-1980 or comrehabjan@aol.com
BIG (Brain Injury Group)
This group meets on Tuesday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Call for information.
Meeting Place:
Hilyard Community Center
2580 Hilyard Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact:
Curtis Brown at (541) 998-3951 or BCCBrown@aol.com
Hillsboro
Homeward Bound Support Group
This group meets on the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Tuality Community Hospital
335 SE 8th Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Contact:
Carol Altman (503) 640-0818
Klamath Falls
Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the second Tuesday from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
SPOKES
415 Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Contact:
Dawn Lytle at (541) 883-7547 or dawn.lytle@spokesunlimited.org
Lebanon
Brain Injury Support Group of Lebanon
This group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
Lebanon Community Hospital,
Conference Room #6
525 North Santiam Highway
Lebanon, OR 97355
Contact:
Lisa Stoffey at (541) 752-0816 or lstoffey@aol.com
Medford
Turning Point
This group meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
11 West Jackson Street
Medford, OR 97501
Contact:
Pam Ogden at (541) 776-3427 or Pamela.Ogden@sogoodwill.org
Southern Oregon Brainstormers Support and Social Club
This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Providence Medical Center
Birthplace Conf. Rm (Main Entrance, turn left)
1111 Crater Lake Avenue
Medford, OR 97504
Contact:
Lorita Cushman at (541) 772-6528 or LORITAMICKCUSH@aol.com
Molalla
Brain Injury Support Group of Molalla
This group meets on the fourth Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Son’light Vital Foods, Inc.
123 Robbins St.
Molalla, OR 97038
Contact:
Raeleah Brensen at (503) 829-9456 or Skeeter@molalla.net
Newport
Brain Injury Support Group of Newport
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Meeting Place:
4909 S Coast Hwy Suite 340
South Beach, Oregon 97366
Website: www.progressive-options.org
Contact:
(541) 867-4335 or progop541@yahoo.com
Oregon City
Clackamas Community College Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the third Friday of the month (during school year) from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Clackamas Community College McLoughlin Hall
Rm. M226 (2nd floor)
Oregon City, OR
Contact:
Sonja Bolon, MA, at (503) 816-1053 or Brain4you2@gmail.com
Pendleton
Inactive at this time.
For more information contact:
Joyce McFarland-Orr at (541) 278-1194 or jmcfarland@Oregontrail.net
Portland
BIRC Alumni Support Group
This group meets the last Tuesday of every odd month.
Address:
1815 SW Marlow, Ste. 110
Portland, 97225
Contact:
Doug Peterson at (503) 292-0765 or doug@progrehab.com
Brainstormers I Women’s Self-help Group
This group meets the second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Wilcox Building
Room A (Next to Good Samaritan Hospital)
2211 NW Marshall St.
Portland 97210
Contact:
Jane Starbird, PhD, at (503) 493-1221 or drstarbird@aol.com
Brainstormers II Survivor Self-help Group
This group meets the third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – noon.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, M.O.B.-West
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Steve Wright at (503) 413-7707 or biaor@biaoregon.org
Crossroads (Brain Injury Discussion Group)
This group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Independent Living Resources
2410 SE 11th
Portland, OR 97214
Contact:
Christopher Eason at 503-232-7411 or christopher@ilr.org
Family Support Group
This group meets on the third Saturday of the month from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. The group is currently combined with Parents of Children with Brain Injury.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, Rm 1035
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Joyce Kerley at (503) 413-7707 or joycek1145@aol.com
Veteran Resource Navigator
The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) has a comprehensive online resource guide (VETERAN RESOURCE NAVIGATOR) available to assist veterans in finding the benefits that are most useful to their unique circumstances at this time.
Use the link below for the Veteran Resource Navigator
https://www.oregon.gov/
Other Resources Available to Veterans and Military Service Members
- Veteran Resource Navigator site by ODVA: https://www.oregon.gov/
odva/COVID/Pages/default.aspx - (Oregon) Military Help Line: Call 888-457-4838
- VA Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, press 1.
- VA Confidential crisis chat at net or text to 838255
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.
gov/
If you are a veteran or family member with specific questions not addressed here, or if you need other direct assistance, please contact an ODVA Resource Navigator by calling (503) 373-2085 or toll-free at 1-800-692-9666.
Contact ODVA Headquarters
Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs
700 Summer St NE
Salem, OR 97301
Web: https://www.oregon.gov/odva/Pages/default.aspx
Phone: (800) 692-9666 or (503) 373-2085
Fax: (503) 373-2392
Email: orvetsbenefits@odva.state.or.us
Support Groups Central offers Quality Peer Support
Strength for Your Journey
Group Video Meetings Led by Trained Facilitators
- Online meetings are via Zoom (secured)
- You can get reminders and keep a journal of your progress
>>> Watch this video to learn how it works at:
>>> Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
https://www.SupportGroupsCentral.com
>>> Checkout the list of TOPIC AREAS from a wide variety of organizations including but not limited to:
https://www.supportgroupscentral.com/index.cfm#anc1
Here is a sampling:
- Coping with Stress
- Coping with Chronic Pain
- Grief and Bereavement
- Trauma Healing and Recovery
- Support for Veterans and Military Families
- Support for Expecting Parents
- Postpartum Support
- Depression Recovery
- Anxiety Recovery
- Mental Health & Wellness
- Caregiver Support
- Ministry
- Health Issues
- and many more!
>>> Check out Facebook Page for Support Groups Central:
https://www.facebook.com/SupportGroupsCentral
Other offerings:
Hey Peers! Real Humans. Real Help. Real Time
Hey Peers is a video chat app that allows people to safely browse and join peer support conversations and meetings. You can download the app online for your iPhone device. Android version coming soon. Now available online on the website, too!
Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Meetings List
https://www.heypeers.com/meetings_list
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Chatrooms List
https://www.heypeers.com/chatrooms
Some More About Hey Peers:
Instant community
Create a community of trusted and like-minded peers – those that share similar challenges and experiences, those that want support, and those that give support. Employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, payers, and individuals can set up an instant community and sponsor peer support for their employees, members or loved ones.
Connect with peers
Would you like to connect with peers or supporters between support group meetings? You can do this on Hey Peers. Individuals can quickly find others who they would like to connect with for mutual support. Connections are secure and confidential with an option to remain anonymous.
Progress tracking
Hey Peers offers a premium option to journal and track moods, wellness, exercise, and other key components of mental and physical wellness. The easy recording of key indicators and important treatment information can help one see progress from support. No personal information is shared.
Available on any device
Access Hey Peers on your laptop, tablet, or mobile. No downloads necessary with our mobile responsive web App that works on any device.
Trusted Peer Facilitators
Hey Peers screens peer support facilitators to make sure they have appropriate credentials, and allows users to rate and review peer leaders to ensure high quality peer support.
our users
Who uses Hey Peers?
Any individual or peer supporter can sign up and use Hey Peers. We also designed our App for small, midsize, and large employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, and insurers to use Hey Peers for their members and employees to improve wellness outcomes in a safe and purpose-build environment.
1:1 Peer Support Coaching
1:1 Peer Coaching is a way for you to work more intensively toward achieving and maintaining yourself as you deal with your life’s challenges. In our 1:1 sessions, you will meet with a certified peer specialist or recovery coach of your choosing. There will be no other participants … just you and your coach.
Peer Support Solutions
Does your organization want to provide a secure digital peer support platform for your members or employees? Hey Peers combines a video conferencing system with chat support groups so that you can offer both regularly scheduled support group meetings and on-demand facilitated peer chat conversations to support everyday needs.
Find out more about our special offer during social distancing by completing the online form at the link below.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/contact
Facilitators
If you are a Peer Supporter that is affiliated with a non-profit that is using Hey Peers, you can sign up directly on Hey Peers to get started.
If you are a Peer Supporter that is certified, trained, or licensed, please complete our Facilitator Application, and fill out the form below as part of our approval process.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/facilitators
Hey Peers Tools for Support Groups
Hey Peers offers more administrative tools for managing virtual support groups than Zoom, Skype, Facebook, or other teleconferencing or forum tools including but not limited to:
- Groups or one-on-one conversations
- Peer and meeting match recommendations
- Private, password-protected meeting options
- Approve members subscribing to your organization
- Self-wellness tools that help your members see progress
- Share group documents electronically from your Hey Peers page (no more copying, binding, handing out)
- Direct links to schedules and meetings from your web site – easier to track for facilitators and members
- Track group participation rates
- Custom registration data collection available
- Prepare electronic reports to show the positive impact support groups deliver for fundraising, research and program management
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
Survivor Peer Support Warmline
CALL 855-473-3711 (855-4peer11)
A survivor support line is now available to provide telephone support to those who suffer from all levels of brain impairment. 4peer11 is a survivor run, funded, operated and managed-emotional help line. We do not give medical advice, but we DO have two compassionate ears. We have survived some form of brain injury or are a survivor who is significant in the life of a survivor.
Live operators are available from 9am-9pm Pacific Standard Time. If a call comes when an operator is not free please leave a message. Messages are returned on a regular basis.
Website:
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Brain Injury Support Groups in the Pacific Northwest (incl. online and family):
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Recursos en Espanol / Resources in Spanish
https://www.biaoregon.org/resource-library/recursos-en-espanol/
Contact Information:
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
PO Box 549, Molalla OR 97038
Have YOU HAD a brain injury?
Call: 1-800-544-5243 / 503-961-5675
Website Excerpt(s):
Our Neuro-Resource Facilitation expert can help you and your family find answers to your questions. We offer support in coping with the issues of living with a brain injury and transition back to work as well as the community. This is a FREE service dedicated to helping people choose, get and keep needed services and supports.
- Providing brain injury specific information and resources;
- Enhancing natural supports and connecting you to services, and community resources;
- Providing training to providers for increased capacity of Oregon’s system of services provided;
- Accessing, securing and maximizing funding, both private and public.
- Customized Packet (primary resources distributed) by the Neuro-Resource Facilitators, contains important brain injury information as well as various services/supports for individuals and families experiencing brain injury that is unique to each caller.
- Another resource commonly distributed by our staff is a selection of DVDs.
There is a large library of resources, DVDs, videos, and more available. English and Espanol / Spanish. Plus, specific support for veterans.
Oregon TBI / Brain Injury Support Groups (check for availability ahead of time, and find more online from links above)
Bend
Central Oregon Support Group
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Meeting Place:
Rehab Conference Room, Lower Level
St. Charles Medical Center
2500 NE Neff Rd.
Bend, OR 97701
Contacts:
Joyce and Dave Accornero at (541) 382-9451 or Accornero@bendbroadband.com
Brookings
Brain Injury Group (BIG)
To be announced.
Contact:
(877) 469-8844 or (541) 469-8887
Cottage Grove
BIG II (Brain Injury Group II)
This group meets every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
The Jefferson Park Recreation Room
325 S. Fifth Street
Cottage Grove, OR
Contact:
Anna at (541) 767-0845
Corvallis
Stroke and Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Church of the Good Samaritan Lounge
333 NW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
Contact:
Amy Nistico at (541) 768-5157 at aeasterl@samhealth.org
Eugene
Community Rehabilitation Service of Oregon
This group meets on the third Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Central Presbyterian Church
555 E 15th Ave. (15th & Patterson)
Eugene, OR. 97401
Contact:
Jan Johnson at (541) 342-1980 or comrehabjan@aol.com
BIG (Brain Injury Group)
This group meets on Tuesday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Call for information.
Meeting Place:
Hilyard Community Center
2580 Hilyard Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact:
Curtis Brown at (541) 998-3951 or BCCBrown@aol.com
Hillsboro
Homeward Bound Support Group
This group meets on the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Tuality Community Hospital
335 SE 8th Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Contact:
Carol Altman (503) 640-0818
Klamath Falls
Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the second Tuesday from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
SPOKES
415 Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Contact:
Dawn Lytle at (541) 883-7547 or dawn.lytle@spokesunlimited.org
Lebanon
Brain Injury Support Group of Lebanon
This group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
Lebanon Community Hospital,
Conference Room #6
525 North Santiam Highway
Lebanon, OR 97355
Contact:
Lisa Stoffey at (541) 752-0816 or lstoffey@aol.com
Medford
Turning Point
This group meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
11 West Jackson Street
Medford, OR 97501
Contact:
Pam Ogden at (541) 776-3427 or Pamela.Ogden@sogoodwill.org
Southern Oregon Brainstormers Support and Social Club
This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Providence Medical Center
Birthplace Conf. Rm (Main Entrance, turn left)
1111 Crater Lake Avenue
Medford, OR 97504
Contact:
Lorita Cushman at (541) 772-6528 or LORITAMICKCUSH@aol.com
Molalla
Brain Injury Support Group of Molalla
This group meets on the fourth Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Son’light Vital Foods, Inc.
123 Robbins St.
Molalla, OR 97038
Contact:
Raeleah Brensen at (503) 829-9456 or Skeeter@molalla.net
Newport
Brain Injury Support Group of Newport
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Meeting Place:
4909 S Coast Hwy Suite 340
South Beach, Oregon 97366
Website: www.progressive-options.org
Contact:
(541) 867-4335 or progop541@yahoo.com
Oregon City
Clackamas Community College Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the third Friday of the month (during school year) from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Clackamas Community College McLoughlin Hall
Rm. M226 (2nd floor)
Oregon City, OR
Contact:
Sonja Bolon, MA, at (503) 816-1053 or Brain4you2@gmail.com
Pendleton
Inactive at this time.
For more information contact:
Joyce McFarland-Orr at (541) 278-1194 or jmcfarland@Oregontrail.net
Portland
BIRC Alumni Support Group
This group meets the last Tuesday of every odd month.
Address:
1815 SW Marlow, Ste. 110
Portland, 97225
Contact:
Doug Peterson at (503) 292-0765 or doug@progrehab.com
Brainstormers I Women’s Self-help Group
This group meets the second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Wilcox Building
Room A (Next to Good Samaritan Hospital)
2211 NW Marshall St.
Portland 97210
Contact:
Jane Starbird, PhD, at (503) 493-1221 or drstarbird@aol.com
Brainstormers II Survivor Self-help Group
This group meets the third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – noon.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, M.O.B.-West
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Steve Wright at (503) 413-7707 or biaor@biaoregon.org
Crossroads (Brain Injury Discussion Group)
This group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Independent Living Resources
2410 SE 11th
Portland, OR 97214
Contact:
Christopher Eason at 503-232-7411 or christopher@ilr.org
Family Support Group
This group meets on the third Saturday of the month from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. The group is currently combined with Parents of Children with Brain Injury.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, Rm 1035
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Joyce Kerley at (503) 413-7707 or joycek1145@aol.com
Project A.B.L.E. (A Better Life Experience) offering virtual online peer support activities via Zoom.
Veterans Coffee with Hollalina at Project A.B.L.E. – Wednesdays – 10am-11am PST
Zoom Link for scheduled event times:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/5433781708
Or call 720-707-2699 and enter Meeting ID# 543-378-1708
Website:
Activities Calendar
https://projectable.org/what-we-do/activities/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ProjectABLEInc/
This online support group is for Veterans and Active Military Service Members with mental illness, regardless of their diagnosis. The group is offered free of charge, and no registration or enrollment is required. Each meeting is facilitated by trained individuals (via Zoom platform) who are also in recovery and understand the challenges. Please call the NAMI helpline at 503-228-5692 or click here to contact NAMI Multnomah.
Veteran Resource Navigator
The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) has a comprehensive online resource guide (VETERAN RESOURCE NAVIGATOR) available to assist veterans in finding the benefits that are most useful to their unique circumstances at this time.
Use the link below for the Veteran Resource Navigator
https://www.oregon.gov/
Other Resources Available to Veterans and Military Service Members
- Veteran Resource Navigator site by ODVA: https://www.oregon.gov/
odva/COVID/Pages/default.aspx - (Oregon) Military Help Line: Call 888-457-4838
- VA Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, press 1.
- VA Confidential crisis chat at net or text to 838255
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.
gov/
If you are a veteran or family member with specific questions not addressed here, or if you need other direct assistance, please contact an ODVA Resource Navigator by calling (503) 373-2085 or toll-free at 1-800-692-9666.
Contact ODVA Headquarters
Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs
700 Summer St NE
Salem, OR 97301
Web: https://www.oregon.gov/odva/Pages/default.aspx
Phone: (800) 692-9666 or (503) 373-2085
Fax: (503) 373-2392
Email: orvetsbenefits@odva.state.or.us
Support Groups Central offers Quality Peer Support
Strength for Your Journey
Group Video Meetings Led by Trained Facilitators
- Online meetings are via Zoom (secured)
- You can get reminders and keep a journal of your progress
>>> Watch this video to learn how it works at:
>>> Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
https://www.SupportGroupsCentral.com
>>> Checkout the list of TOPIC AREAS from a wide variety of organizations including but not limited to:
https://www.supportgroupscentral.com/index.cfm#anc1
Here is a sampling:
- Coping with Stress
- Coping with Chronic Pain
- Grief and Bereavement
- Trauma Healing and Recovery
- Support for Veterans and Military Families
- Support for Expecting Parents
- Postpartum Support
- Depression Recovery
- Anxiety Recovery
- Mental Health & Wellness
- Caregiver Support
- Ministry
- Health Issues
- and many more!
>>> Check out Facebook Page for Support Groups Central:
https://www.facebook.com/SupportGroupsCentral
Other offerings:
Hey Peers! Real Humans. Real Help. Real Time
Hey Peers is a video chat app that allows people to safely browse and join peer support conversations and meetings. You can download the app online for your iPhone device. Android version coming soon. Now available online on the website, too!
Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Meetings List
https://www.heypeers.com/meetings_list
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Chatrooms List
https://www.heypeers.com/chatrooms
Some More About Hey Peers:
Instant community
Create a community of trusted and like-minded peers – those that share similar challenges and experiences, those that want support, and those that give support. Employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, payers, and individuals can set up an instant community and sponsor peer support for their employees, members or loved ones.
Connect with peers
Would you like to connect with peers or supporters between support group meetings? You can do this on Hey Peers. Individuals can quickly find others who they would like to connect with for mutual support. Connections are secure and confidential with an option to remain anonymous.
Progress tracking
Hey Peers offers a premium option to journal and track moods, wellness, exercise, and other key components of mental and physical wellness. The easy recording of key indicators and important treatment information can help one see progress from support. No personal information is shared.
Available on any device
Access Hey Peers on your laptop, tablet, or mobile. No downloads necessary with our mobile responsive web App that works on any device.
Trusted Peer Facilitators
Hey Peers screens peer support facilitators to make sure they have appropriate credentials, and allows users to rate and review peer leaders to ensure high quality peer support.
our users
Who uses Hey Peers?
Any individual or peer supporter can sign up and use Hey Peers. We also designed our App for small, midsize, and large employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, and insurers to use Hey Peers for their members and employees to improve wellness outcomes in a safe and purpose-build environment.
1:1 Peer Support Coaching
1:1 Peer Coaching is a way for you to work more intensively toward achieving and maintaining yourself as you deal with your life’s challenges. In our 1:1 sessions, you will meet with a certified peer specialist or recovery coach of your choosing. There will be no other participants … just you and your coach.
Peer Support Solutions
Does your organization want to provide a secure digital peer support platform for your members or employees? Hey Peers combines a video conferencing system with chat support groups so that you can offer both regularly scheduled support group meetings and on-demand facilitated peer chat conversations to support everyday needs.
Find out more about our special offer during social distancing by completing the online form at the link below.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/contact
Facilitators
If you are a Peer Supporter that is affiliated with a non-profit that is using Hey Peers, you can sign up directly on Hey Peers to get started.
If you are a Peer Supporter that is certified, trained, or licensed, please complete our Facilitator Application, and fill out the form below as part of our approval process.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/facilitators
Hey Peers Tools for Support Groups
Hey Peers offers more administrative tools for managing virtual support groups than Zoom, Skype, Facebook, or other teleconferencing or forum tools including but not limited to:
- Groups or one-on-one conversations
- Peer and meeting match recommendations
- Private, password-protected meeting options
- Approve members subscribing to your organization
- Self-wellness tools that help your members see progress
- Share group documents electronically from your Hey Peers page (no more copying, binding, handing out)
- Direct links to schedules and meetings from your web site – easier to track for facilitators and members
- Track group participation rates
- Custom registration data collection available
- Prepare electronic reports to show the positive impact support groups deliver for fundraising, research and program management
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
Survivor Peer Support Warmline
CALL 855-473-3711 (855-4peer11)
A survivor support line is now available to provide telephone support to those who suffer from all levels of brain impairment. 4peer11 is a survivor run, funded, operated and managed-emotional help line. We do not give medical advice, but we DO have two compassionate ears. We have survived some form of brain injury or are a survivor who is significant in the life of a survivor.
Live operators are available from 9am-9pm Pacific Standard Time. If a call comes when an operator is not free please leave a message. Messages are returned on a regular basis.
Website:
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Brain Injury Support Groups in the Pacific Northwest (incl. online and family):
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Recursos en Espanol / Resources in Spanish
https://www.biaoregon.org/resource-library/recursos-en-espanol/
Contact Information:
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
PO Box 549, Molalla OR 97038
Have YOU HAD a brain injury?
Call: 1-800-544-5243 / 503-961-5675
Website Excerpt(s):
Our Neuro-Resource Facilitation expert can help you and your family find answers to your questions. We offer support in coping with the issues of living with a brain injury and transition back to work as well as the community. This is a FREE service dedicated to helping people choose, get and keep needed services and supports.
- Providing brain injury specific information and resources;
- Enhancing natural supports and connecting you to services, and community resources;
- Providing training to providers for increased capacity of Oregon’s system of services provided;
- Accessing, securing and maximizing funding, both private and public.
- Customized Packet (primary resources distributed) by the Neuro-Resource Facilitators, contains important brain injury information as well as various services/supports for individuals and families experiencing brain injury that is unique to each caller.
- Another resource commonly distributed by our staff is a selection of DVDs.
There is a large library of resources, DVDs, videos, and more available. English and Espanol / Spanish. Plus, specific support for veterans.
Oregon TBI / Brain Injury Support Groups (check for availability ahead of time, and find more online from links above)
Bend
Central Oregon Support Group
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Meeting Place:
Rehab Conference Room, Lower Level
St. Charles Medical Center
2500 NE Neff Rd.
Bend, OR 97701
Contacts:
Joyce and Dave Accornero at (541) 382-9451 or Accornero@bendbroadband.com
Brookings
Brain Injury Group (BIG)
To be announced.
Contact:
(877) 469-8844 or (541) 469-8887
Cottage Grove
BIG II (Brain Injury Group II)
This group meets every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
The Jefferson Park Recreation Room
325 S. Fifth Street
Cottage Grove, OR
Contact:
Anna at (541) 767-0845
Corvallis
Stroke and Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Church of the Good Samaritan Lounge
333 NW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
Contact:
Amy Nistico at (541) 768-5157 at aeasterl@samhealth.org
Eugene
Community Rehabilitation Service of Oregon
This group meets on the third Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Central Presbyterian Church
555 E 15th Ave. (15th & Patterson)
Eugene, OR. 97401
Contact:
Jan Johnson at (541) 342-1980 or comrehabjan@aol.com
BIG (Brain Injury Group)
This group meets on Tuesday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Call for information.
Meeting Place:
Hilyard Community Center
2580 Hilyard Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact:
Curtis Brown at (541) 998-3951 or BCCBrown@aol.com
Hillsboro
Homeward Bound Support Group
This group meets on the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Tuality Community Hospital
335 SE 8th Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Contact:
Carol Altman (503) 640-0818
Klamath Falls
Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the second Tuesday from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
SPOKES
415 Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Contact:
Dawn Lytle at (541) 883-7547 or dawn.lytle@spokesunlimited.org
Lebanon
Brain Injury Support Group of Lebanon
This group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
Lebanon Community Hospital,
Conference Room #6
525 North Santiam Highway
Lebanon, OR 97355
Contact:
Lisa Stoffey at (541) 752-0816 or lstoffey@aol.com
Medford
Turning Point
This group meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
11 West Jackson Street
Medford, OR 97501
Contact:
Pam Ogden at (541) 776-3427 or Pamela.Ogden@sogoodwill.org
Southern Oregon Brainstormers Support and Social Club
This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Providence Medical Center
Birthplace Conf. Rm (Main Entrance, turn left)
1111 Crater Lake Avenue
Medford, OR 97504
Contact:
Lorita Cushman at (541) 772-6528 or LORITAMICKCUSH@aol.com
Molalla
Brain Injury Support Group of Molalla
This group meets on the fourth Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Son’light Vital Foods, Inc.
123 Robbins St.
Molalla, OR 97038
Contact:
Raeleah Brensen at (503) 829-9456 or Skeeter@molalla.net
Newport
Brain Injury Support Group of Newport
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Meeting Place:
4909 S Coast Hwy Suite 340
South Beach, Oregon 97366
Website: www.progressive-options.org
Contact:
(541) 867-4335 or progop541@yahoo.com
Oregon City
Clackamas Community College Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the third Friday of the month (during school year) from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Clackamas Community College McLoughlin Hall
Rm. M226 (2nd floor)
Oregon City, OR
Contact:
Sonja Bolon, MA, at (503) 816-1053 or Brain4you2@gmail.com
Pendleton
Inactive at this time.
For more information contact:
Joyce McFarland-Orr at (541) 278-1194 or jmcfarland@Oregontrail.net
Portland
BIRC Alumni Support Group
This group meets the last Tuesday of every odd month.
Address:
1815 SW Marlow, Ste. 110
Portland, 97225
Contact:
Doug Peterson at (503) 292-0765 or doug@progrehab.com
Brainstormers I Women’s Self-help Group
This group meets the second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Wilcox Building
Room A (Next to Good Samaritan Hospital)
2211 NW Marshall St.
Portland 97210
Contact:
Jane Starbird, PhD, at (503) 493-1221 or drstarbird@aol.com
Brainstormers II Survivor Self-help Group
This group meets the third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – noon.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, M.O.B.-West
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Steve Wright at (503) 413-7707 or biaor@biaoregon.org
Crossroads (Brain Injury Discussion Group)
This group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Independent Living Resources
2410 SE 11th
Portland, OR 97214
Contact:
Christopher Eason at 503-232-7411 or christopher@ilr.org
Family Support Group
This group meets on the third Saturday of the month from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. The group is currently combined with Parents of Children with Brain Injury.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, Rm 1035
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Joyce Kerley at (503) 413-7707 or joycek1145@aol.com
Medical and Behavioral Health Providers:
Join us to better serve Veterans and Military Service Members in your community!
Training Dates Available From April Through May 14th (See Link Below for List)
Please Note: All trainings are two consecutive days.
Oregon Veterans face a higher suicide rate than their civilian peers. “For every Service Member who dies in combat, 25-30 take their own lives”1
Veterans face unique barriers to accessing medical and behavioral healthcare. Many Providers, although highly skilled, are unfamiliar with Military culture and the unique needs of Veterans as they pertain to behavioral health, and more specifically, to suicidality.
Military Culture Awareness & Suicide Prevention Training for Providers is a two-day training that addresses in-depth knowledge and skills to bridge this gap between providers and Veterans who seek care.
By educating providers on Veteran and Military-specific language and other cultural cues, as well as providing access to specific suicide prevention and intervention assessments, we hope to improve providers’ familiarity with Service Members needs around mental health and suicide.
Earn up to 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™*
The two-day trainings are held virtually on Zoom between March and May 2021. There are two types of trainings available:
- Regional trainings where Providers can share local resources and challenges as a cohort
- Statewide trainings focusing on under-served populations, including Veterans and Military Service Members who are LGBTQ+, Women, and/or Tribal Members.
If the training in your region has filled up, consider attending a Statewide Key Populations training, which has the same core content as each regional training.
Please note that this training is intended for those who provide services in the state of Oregon.
Training cost: Free
Platform: Virtual, Zoom
For a list of training dates and times use this link: View Training Dates
To complete the pre-training Survey use this link: Pre-Training Survey
To Register Use This Link: REGISTRATION
Learning objectives:
- Improve the overall quality of care for Service Members, Veterans, and their Families (SMVF) by applying targeted knowledge and awareness of military culture.
- Synthesize concepts learned about military culture and suicide prevention in order to address the complexity of risk facing SMVF.
- Use motivational interviewing strategies to develop a collaborative safety plan that addresses the unique needs of SMVF
- Improve access, coordination, and teamwork to support and improve the mental health of SMVF. Utilize an inter-disciplinary team approach to safety planning and harm reduction.
- Confidently implement care standards required by law
- Understand the current scope and significance of suicide as a problem, particularly among SMVF
- Apply FVT, functional model of suicide, suicide mode, and BPSS lens concepts to the case scenario.
- Adopt a trauma-informed, person-centered approach to care
- Conduct a thorough suicide risk assessment including lethal means (skill acquisition).
* Accreditation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of OHSU School of Medicine and Lines for Life. The OHSU School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
* Credit: Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
To Register Use This Link: REGISTRATION
Contact Us: Contact Us By Email
Veteran Resource Navigator
The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) has a comprehensive online resource guide (VETERAN RESOURCE NAVIGATOR) available to assist veterans in finding the benefits that are most useful to their unique circumstances at this time.
Use the link below for the Veteran Resource Navigator
https://www.oregon.gov/
Other Resources Available to Veterans and Military Service Members
- Veteran Resource Navigator site by ODVA: https://www.oregon.gov/
odva/COVID/Pages/default.aspx - (Oregon) Military Help Line: Call 888-457-4838
- VA Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, press 1.
- VA Confidential crisis chat at net or text to 838255
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.
gov/
If you are a veteran or family member with specific questions not addressed here, or if you need other direct assistance, please contact an ODVA Resource Navigator by calling (503) 373-2085 or toll-free at 1-800-692-9666.
Contact ODVA Headquarters
Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs
700 Summer St NE
Salem, OR 97301
Web: https://www.oregon.gov/odva/Pages/default.aspx
Phone: (800) 692-9666 or (503) 373-2085
Fax: (503) 373-2392
Email: orvetsbenefits@odva.state.or.us
Support Groups Central offers Quality Peer Support
Strength for Your Journey
Group Video Meetings Led by Trained Facilitators
- Online meetings are via Zoom (secured)
- You can get reminders and keep a journal of your progress
>>> Watch this video to learn how it works at:
>>> Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
https://www.SupportGroupsCentral.com
>>> Checkout the list of TOPIC AREAS from a wide variety of organizations including but not limited to:
https://www.supportgroupscentral.com/index.cfm#anc1
Here is a sampling:
- Coping with Stress
- Coping with Chronic Pain
- Grief and Bereavement
- Trauma Healing and Recovery
- Support for Veterans and Military Families
- Support for Expecting Parents
- Postpartum Support
- Depression Recovery
- Anxiety Recovery
- Mental Health & Wellness
- Caregiver Support
- Ministry
- Health Issues
- and many more!
>>> Check out Facebook Page for Support Groups Central:
https://www.facebook.com/SupportGroupsCentral
Other offerings:
Hey Peers! Real Humans. Real Help. Real Time
Hey Peers is a video chat app that allows people to safely browse and join peer support conversations and meetings. You can download the app online for your iPhone device. Android version coming soon. Now available online on the website, too!
Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Meetings List
https://www.heypeers.com/meetings_list
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Chatrooms List
https://www.heypeers.com/chatrooms
Some More About Hey Peers:
Instant community
Create a community of trusted and like-minded peers – those that share similar challenges and experiences, those that want support, and those that give support. Employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, payers, and individuals can set up an instant community and sponsor peer support for their employees, members or loved ones.
Connect with peers
Would you like to connect with peers or supporters between support group meetings? You can do this on Hey Peers. Individuals can quickly find others who they would like to connect with for mutual support. Connections are secure and confidential with an option to remain anonymous.
Progress tracking
Hey Peers offers a premium option to journal and track moods, wellness, exercise, and other key components of mental and physical wellness. The easy recording of key indicators and important treatment information can help one see progress from support. No personal information is shared.
Available on any device
Access Hey Peers on your laptop, tablet, or mobile. No downloads necessary with our mobile responsive web App that works on any device.
Trusted Peer Facilitators
Hey Peers screens peer support facilitators to make sure they have appropriate credentials, and allows users to rate and review peer leaders to ensure high quality peer support.
our users
Who uses Hey Peers?
Any individual or peer supporter can sign up and use Hey Peers. We also designed our App for small, midsize, and large employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, and insurers to use Hey Peers for their members and employees to improve wellness outcomes in a safe and purpose-build environment.
1:1 Peer Support Coaching
1:1 Peer Coaching is a way for you to work more intensively toward achieving and maintaining yourself as you deal with your life’s challenges. In our 1:1 sessions, you will meet with a certified peer specialist or recovery coach of your choosing. There will be no other participants … just you and your coach.
Peer Support Solutions
Does your organization want to provide a secure digital peer support platform for your members or employees? Hey Peers combines a video conferencing system with chat support groups so that you can offer both regularly scheduled support group meetings and on-demand facilitated peer chat conversations to support everyday needs.
Find out more about our special offer during social distancing by completing the online form at the link below.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/contact
Facilitators
If you are a Peer Supporter that is affiliated with a non-profit that is using Hey Peers, you can sign up directly on Hey Peers to get started.
If you are a Peer Supporter that is certified, trained, or licensed, please complete our Facilitator Application, and fill out the form below as part of our approval process.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/facilitators
Hey Peers Tools for Support Groups
Hey Peers offers more administrative tools for managing virtual support groups than Zoom, Skype, Facebook, or other teleconferencing or forum tools including but not limited to:
- Groups or one-on-one conversations
- Peer and meeting match recommendations
- Private, password-protected meeting options
- Approve members subscribing to your organization
- Self-wellness tools that help your members see progress
- Share group documents electronically from your Hey Peers page (no more copying, binding, handing out)
- Direct links to schedules and meetings from your web site – easier to track for facilitators and members
- Track group participation rates
- Custom registration data collection available
- Prepare electronic reports to show the positive impact support groups deliver for fundraising, research and program management
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
Survivor Peer Support Warmline
CALL 855-473-3711 (855-4peer11)
A survivor support line is now available to provide telephone support to those who suffer from all levels of brain impairment. 4peer11 is a survivor run, funded, operated and managed-emotional help line. We do not give medical advice, but we DO have two compassionate ears. We have survived some form of brain injury or are a survivor who is significant in the life of a survivor.
Live operators are available from 9am-9pm Pacific Standard Time. If a call comes when an operator is not free please leave a message. Messages are returned on a regular basis.
Website:
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Brain Injury Support Groups in the Pacific Northwest (incl. online and family):
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Recursos en Espanol / Resources in Spanish
https://www.biaoregon.org/resource-library/recursos-en-espanol/
Contact Information:
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
PO Box 549, Molalla OR 97038
Have YOU HAD a brain injury?
Call: 1-800-544-5243 / 503-961-5675
Website Excerpt(s):
Our Neuro-Resource Facilitation expert can help you and your family find answers to your questions. We offer support in coping with the issues of living with a brain injury and transition back to work as well as the community. This is a FREE service dedicated to helping people choose, get and keep needed services and supports.
- Providing brain injury specific information and resources;
- Enhancing natural supports and connecting you to services, and community resources;
- Providing training to providers for increased capacity of Oregon’s system of services provided;
- Accessing, securing and maximizing funding, both private and public.
- Customized Packet (primary resources distributed) by the Neuro-Resource Facilitators, contains important brain injury information as well as various services/supports for individuals and families experiencing brain injury that is unique to each caller.
- Another resource commonly distributed by our staff is a selection of DVDs.
There is a large library of resources, DVDs, videos, and more available. English and Espanol / Spanish. Plus, specific support for veterans.
Oregon TBI / Brain Injury Support Groups (check for availability ahead of time, and find more online from links above)
Bend
Central Oregon Support Group
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Meeting Place:
Rehab Conference Room, Lower Level
St. Charles Medical Center
2500 NE Neff Rd.
Bend, OR 97701
Contacts:
Joyce and Dave Accornero at (541) 382-9451 or Accornero@bendbroadband.com
Brookings
Brain Injury Group (BIG)
To be announced.
Contact:
(877) 469-8844 or (541) 469-8887
Cottage Grove
BIG II (Brain Injury Group II)
This group meets every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
The Jefferson Park Recreation Room
325 S. Fifth Street
Cottage Grove, OR
Contact:
Anna at (541) 767-0845
Corvallis
Stroke and Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Church of the Good Samaritan Lounge
333 NW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
Contact:
Amy Nistico at (541) 768-5157 at aeasterl@samhealth.org
Eugene
Community Rehabilitation Service of Oregon
This group meets on the third Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Central Presbyterian Church
555 E 15th Ave. (15th & Patterson)
Eugene, OR. 97401
Contact:
Jan Johnson at (541) 342-1980 or comrehabjan@aol.com
BIG (Brain Injury Group)
This group meets on Tuesday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Call for information.
Meeting Place:
Hilyard Community Center
2580 Hilyard Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact:
Curtis Brown at (541) 998-3951 or BCCBrown@aol.com
Hillsboro
Homeward Bound Support Group
This group meets on the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Tuality Community Hospital
335 SE 8th Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Contact:
Carol Altman (503) 640-0818
Klamath Falls
Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the second Tuesday from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
SPOKES
415 Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Contact:
Dawn Lytle at (541) 883-7547 or dawn.lytle@spokesunlimited.org
Lebanon
Brain Injury Support Group of Lebanon
This group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
Lebanon Community Hospital,
Conference Room #6
525 North Santiam Highway
Lebanon, OR 97355
Contact:
Lisa Stoffey at (541) 752-0816 or lstoffey@aol.com
Medford
Turning Point
This group meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
11 West Jackson Street
Medford, OR 97501
Contact:
Pam Ogden at (541) 776-3427 or Pamela.Ogden@sogoodwill.org
Southern Oregon Brainstormers Support and Social Club
This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Providence Medical Center
Birthplace Conf. Rm (Main Entrance, turn left)
1111 Crater Lake Avenue
Medford, OR 97504
Contact:
Lorita Cushman at (541) 772-6528 or LORITAMICKCUSH@aol.com
Molalla
Brain Injury Support Group of Molalla
This group meets on the fourth Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Son’light Vital Foods, Inc.
123 Robbins St.
Molalla, OR 97038
Contact:
Raeleah Brensen at (503) 829-9456 or Skeeter@molalla.net
Newport
Brain Injury Support Group of Newport
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Meeting Place:
4909 S Coast Hwy Suite 340
South Beach, Oregon 97366
Website: www.progressive-options.org
Contact:
(541) 867-4335 or progop541@yahoo.com
Oregon City
Clackamas Community College Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the third Friday of the month (during school year) from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Clackamas Community College McLoughlin Hall
Rm. M226 (2nd floor)
Oregon City, OR
Contact:
Sonja Bolon, MA, at (503) 816-1053 or Brain4you2@gmail.com
Pendleton
Inactive at this time.
For more information contact:
Joyce McFarland-Orr at (541) 278-1194 or jmcfarland@Oregontrail.net
Portland
BIRC Alumni Support Group
This group meets the last Tuesday of every odd month.
Address:
1815 SW Marlow, Ste. 110
Portland, 97225
Contact:
Doug Peterson at (503) 292-0765 or doug@progrehab.com
Brainstormers I Women’s Self-help Group
This group meets the second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Wilcox Building
Room A (Next to Good Samaritan Hospital)
2211 NW Marshall St.
Portland 97210
Contact:
Jane Starbird, PhD, at (503) 493-1221 or drstarbird@aol.com
Brainstormers II Survivor Self-help Group
This group meets the third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – noon.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, M.O.B.-West
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Steve Wright at (503) 413-7707 or biaor@biaoregon.org
Crossroads (Brain Injury Discussion Group)
This group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Independent Living Resources
2410 SE 11th
Portland, OR 97214
Contact:
Christopher Eason at 503-232-7411 or christopher@ilr.org
Family Support Group
This group meets on the third Saturday of the month from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. The group is currently combined with Parents of Children with Brain Injury.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, Rm 1035
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Joyce Kerley at (503) 413-7707 or joycek1145@aol.com
Project A.B.L.E. (A Better Life Experience) offering virtual online peer support activities via Zoom.
10am-11am PST | Veterans Coffee with RJ at Project A.B.L.E.
Zoom Link for scheduled event times:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/5433781708
Or call 720-707-2699 and enter Meeting ID# 543-378-1708
Website:
Activities Calendar
https://projectable.org/what-we-do/activities/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ProjectABLEInc/
Veteran Resource Navigator
The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) has a comprehensive online resource guide (VETERAN RESOURCE NAVIGATOR) available to assist veterans in finding the benefits that are most useful to their unique circumstances at this time.
Use the link below for the Veteran Resource Navigator
https://www.oregon.gov/
Other Resources Available to Veterans and Military Service Members
- Veteran Resource Navigator site by ODVA: https://www.oregon.gov/
odva/COVID/Pages/default.aspx - (Oregon) Military Help Line: Call 888-457-4838
- VA Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, press 1.
- VA Confidential crisis chat at net or text to 838255
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.
gov/
If you are a veteran or family member with specific questions not addressed here, or if you need other direct assistance, please contact an ODVA Resource Navigator by calling (503) 373-2085 or toll-free at 1-800-692-9666.
Contact ODVA Headquarters
Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs
700 Summer St NE
Salem, OR 97301
Web: https://www.oregon.gov/odva/Pages/default.aspx
Phone: (800) 692-9666 or (503) 373-2085
Fax: (503) 373-2392
Email: orvetsbenefits@odva.state.or.us
Support Groups Central offers Quality Peer Support
Strength for Your Journey
Group Video Meetings Led by Trained Facilitators
- Online meetings are via Zoom (secured)
- You can get reminders and keep a journal of your progress
>>> Watch this video to learn how it works at:
>>> Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
https://www.SupportGroupsCentral.com
>>> Checkout the list of TOPIC AREAS from a wide variety of organizations including but not limited to:
https://www.supportgroupscentral.com/index.cfm#anc1
Here is a sampling:
- Coping with Stress
- Coping with Chronic Pain
- Grief and Bereavement
- Trauma Healing and Recovery
- Support for Veterans and Military Families
- Support for Expecting Parents
- Postpartum Support
- Depression Recovery
- Anxiety Recovery
- Mental Health & Wellness
- Caregiver Support
- Ministry
- Health Issues
- and many more!
>>> Check out Facebook Page for Support Groups Central:
https://www.facebook.com/SupportGroupsCentral
Other offerings:
Hey Peers! Real Humans. Real Help. Real Time
Hey Peers is a video chat app that allows people to safely browse and join peer support conversations and meetings. You can download the app online for your iPhone device. Android version coming soon. Now available online on the website, too!
Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Meetings List
https://www.heypeers.com/meetings_list
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Chatrooms List
https://www.heypeers.com/chatrooms
Some More About Hey Peers:
Instant community
Create a community of trusted and like-minded peers – those that share similar challenges and experiences, those that want support, and those that give support. Employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, payers, and individuals can set up an instant community and sponsor peer support for their employees, members or loved ones.
Connect with peers
Would you like to connect with peers or supporters between support group meetings? You can do this on Hey Peers. Individuals can quickly find others who they would like to connect with for mutual support. Connections are secure and confidential with an option to remain anonymous.
Progress tracking
Hey Peers offers a premium option to journal and track moods, wellness, exercise, and other key components of mental and physical wellness. The easy recording of key indicators and important treatment information can help one see progress from support. No personal information is shared.
Available on any device
Access Hey Peers on your laptop, tablet, or mobile. No downloads necessary with our mobile responsive web App that works on any device.
Trusted Peer Facilitators
Hey Peers screens peer support facilitators to make sure they have appropriate credentials, and allows users to rate and review peer leaders to ensure high quality peer support.
our users
Who uses Hey Peers?
Any individual or peer supporter can sign up and use Hey Peers. We also designed our App for small, midsize, and large employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, and insurers to use Hey Peers for their members and employees to improve wellness outcomes in a safe and purpose-build environment.
1:1 Peer Support Coaching
1:1 Peer Coaching is a way for you to work more intensively toward achieving and maintaining yourself as you deal with your life’s challenges. In our 1:1 sessions, you will meet with a certified peer specialist or recovery coach of your choosing. There will be no other participants … just you and your coach.
Peer Support Solutions
Does your organization want to provide a secure digital peer support platform for your members or employees? Hey Peers combines a video conferencing system with chat support groups so that you can offer both regularly scheduled support group meetings and on-demand facilitated peer chat conversations to support everyday needs.
Find out more about our special offer during social distancing by completing the online form at the link below.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/contact
Facilitators
If you are a Peer Supporter that is affiliated with a non-profit that is using Hey Peers, you can sign up directly on Hey Peers to get started.
If you are a Peer Supporter that is certified, trained, or licensed, please complete our Facilitator Application, and fill out the form below as part of our approval process.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/facilitators
Hey Peers Tools for Support Groups
Hey Peers offers more administrative tools for managing virtual support groups than Zoom, Skype, Facebook, or other teleconferencing or forum tools including but not limited to:
- Groups or one-on-one conversations
- Peer and meeting match recommendations
- Private, password-protected meeting options
- Approve members subscribing to your organization
- Self-wellness tools that help your members see progress
- Share group documents electronically from your Hey Peers page (no more copying, binding, handing out)
- Direct links to schedules and meetings from your web site – easier to track for facilitators and members
- Track group participation rates
- Custom registration data collection available
- Prepare electronic reports to show the positive impact support groups deliver for fundraising, research and program management
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
Survivor Peer Support Warmline
CALL 855-473-3711 (855-4peer11)
A survivor support line is now available to provide telephone support to those who suffer from all levels of brain impairment. 4peer11 is a survivor run, funded, operated and managed-emotional help line. We do not give medical advice, but we DO have two compassionate ears. We have survived some form of brain injury or are a survivor who is significant in the life of a survivor.
Live operators are available from 9am-9pm Pacific Standard Time. If a call comes when an operator is not free please leave a message. Messages are returned on a regular basis.
Website:
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Brain Injury Support Groups in the Pacific Northwest (incl. online and family):
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Recursos en Espanol / Resources in Spanish
https://www.biaoregon.org/resource-library/recursos-en-espanol/
Contact Information:
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
PO Box 549, Molalla OR 97038
Have YOU HAD a brain injury?
Call: 1-800-544-5243 / 503-961-5675
Website Excerpt(s):
Our Neuro-Resource Facilitation expert can help you and your family find answers to your questions. We offer support in coping with the issues of living with a brain injury and transition back to work as well as the community. This is a FREE service dedicated to helping people choose, get and keep needed services and supports.
- Providing brain injury specific information and resources;
- Enhancing natural supports and connecting you to services, and community resources;
- Providing training to providers for increased capacity of Oregon’s system of services provided;
- Accessing, securing and maximizing funding, both private and public.
- Customized Packet (primary resources distributed) by the Neuro-Resource Facilitators, contains important brain injury information as well as various services/supports for individuals and families experiencing brain injury that is unique to each caller.
- Another resource commonly distributed by our staff is a selection of DVDs.
There is a large library of resources, DVDs, videos, and more available. English and Espanol / Spanish. Plus, specific support for veterans.
Oregon TBI / Brain Injury Support Groups (check for availability ahead of time, and find more online from links above)
Bend
Central Oregon Support Group
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Meeting Place:
Rehab Conference Room, Lower Level
St. Charles Medical Center
2500 NE Neff Rd.
Bend, OR 97701
Contacts:
Joyce and Dave Accornero at (541) 382-9451 or Accornero@bendbroadband.com
Brookings
Brain Injury Group (BIG)
To be announced.
Contact:
(877) 469-8844 or (541) 469-8887
Cottage Grove
BIG II (Brain Injury Group II)
This group meets every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
The Jefferson Park Recreation Room
325 S. Fifth Street
Cottage Grove, OR
Contact:
Anna at (541) 767-0845
Corvallis
Stroke and Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Church of the Good Samaritan Lounge
333 NW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
Contact:
Amy Nistico at (541) 768-5157 at aeasterl@samhealth.org
Eugene
Community Rehabilitation Service of Oregon
This group meets on the third Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Central Presbyterian Church
555 E 15th Ave. (15th & Patterson)
Eugene, OR. 97401
Contact:
Jan Johnson at (541) 342-1980 or comrehabjan@aol.com
BIG (Brain Injury Group)
This group meets on Tuesday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Call for information.
Meeting Place:
Hilyard Community Center
2580 Hilyard Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact:
Curtis Brown at (541) 998-3951 or BCCBrown@aol.com
Hillsboro
Homeward Bound Support Group
This group meets on the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Tuality Community Hospital
335 SE 8th Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Contact:
Carol Altman (503) 640-0818
Klamath Falls
Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the second Tuesday from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
SPOKES
415 Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Contact:
Dawn Lytle at (541) 883-7547 or dawn.lytle@spokesunlimited.org
Lebanon
Brain Injury Support Group of Lebanon
This group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
Lebanon Community Hospital,
Conference Room #6
525 North Santiam Highway
Lebanon, OR 97355
Contact:
Lisa Stoffey at (541) 752-0816 or lstoffey@aol.com
Medford
Turning Point
This group meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
11 West Jackson Street
Medford, OR 97501
Contact:
Pam Ogden at (541) 776-3427 or Pamela.Ogden@sogoodwill.org
Southern Oregon Brainstormers Support and Social Club
This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Providence Medical Center
Birthplace Conf. Rm (Main Entrance, turn left)
1111 Crater Lake Avenue
Medford, OR 97504
Contact:
Lorita Cushman at (541) 772-6528 or LORITAMICKCUSH@aol.com
Molalla
Brain Injury Support Group of Molalla
This group meets on the fourth Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Son’light Vital Foods, Inc.
123 Robbins St.
Molalla, OR 97038
Contact:
Raeleah Brensen at (503) 829-9456 or Skeeter@molalla.net
Newport
Brain Injury Support Group of Newport
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Meeting Place:
4909 S Coast Hwy Suite 340
South Beach, Oregon 97366
Website: www.progressive-options.org
Contact:
(541) 867-4335 or progop541@yahoo.com
Oregon City
Clackamas Community College Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the third Friday of the month (during school year) from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Clackamas Community College McLoughlin Hall
Rm. M226 (2nd floor)
Oregon City, OR
Contact:
Sonja Bolon, MA, at (503) 816-1053 or Brain4you2@gmail.com
Pendleton
Inactive at this time.
For more information contact:
Joyce McFarland-Orr at (541) 278-1194 or jmcfarland@Oregontrail.net
Portland
BIRC Alumni Support Group
This group meets the last Tuesday of every odd month.
Address:
1815 SW Marlow, Ste. 110
Portland, 97225
Contact:
Doug Peterson at (503) 292-0765 or doug@progrehab.com
Brainstormers I Women’s Self-help Group
This group meets the second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Wilcox Building
Room A (Next to Good Samaritan Hospital)
2211 NW Marshall St.
Portland 97210
Contact:
Jane Starbird, PhD, at (503) 493-1221 or drstarbird@aol.com
Brainstormers II Survivor Self-help Group
This group meets the third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – noon.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, M.O.B.-West
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Steve Wright at (503) 413-7707 or biaor@biaoregon.org
Crossroads (Brain Injury Discussion Group)
This group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Independent Living Resources
2410 SE 11th
Portland, OR 97214
Contact:
Christopher Eason at 503-232-7411 or christopher@ilr.org
Family Support Group
This group meets on the third Saturday of the month from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. The group is currently combined with Parents of Children with Brain Injury.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, Rm 1035
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Joyce Kerley at (503) 413-7707 or joycek1145@aol.com
Veteran Resource Navigator
The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) has a comprehensive online resource guide (VETERAN RESOURCE NAVIGATOR) available to assist veterans in finding the benefits that are most useful to their unique circumstances at this time.
Use the link below for the Veteran Resource Navigator
https://www.oregon.gov/
Other Resources Available to Veterans and Military Service Members
- Veteran Resource Navigator site by ODVA: https://www.oregon.gov/
odva/COVID/Pages/default.aspx - (Oregon) Military Help Line: Call 888-457-4838
- VA Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, press 1.
- VA Confidential crisis chat at net or text to 838255
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.
gov/
If you are a veteran or family member with specific questions not addressed here, or if you need other direct assistance, please contact an ODVA Resource Navigator by calling (503) 373-2085 or toll-free at 1-800-692-9666.
Contact ODVA Headquarters
Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs
700 Summer St NE
Salem, OR 97301
Web: https://www.oregon.gov/odva/Pages/default.aspx
Phone: (800) 692-9666 or (503) 373-2085
Fax: (503) 373-2392
Email: orvetsbenefits@odva.state.or.us
Support Groups Central offers Quality Peer Support
Strength for Your Journey
Group Video Meetings Led by Trained Facilitators
- Online meetings are via Zoom (secured)
- You can get reminders and keep a journal of your progress
>>> Watch this video to learn how it works at:
>>> Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
https://www.SupportGroupsCentral.com
>>> Checkout the list of TOPIC AREAS from a wide variety of organizations including but not limited to:
https://www.supportgroupscentral.com/index.cfm#anc1
Here is a sampling:
- Coping with Stress
- Coping with Chronic Pain
- Grief and Bereavement
- Trauma Healing and Recovery
- Support for Veterans and Military Families
- Support for Expecting Parents
- Postpartum Support
- Depression Recovery
- Anxiety Recovery
- Mental Health & Wellness
- Caregiver Support
- Ministry
- Health Issues
- and many more!
>>> Check out Facebook Page for Support Groups Central:
https://www.facebook.com/SupportGroupsCentral
Other offerings:
Hey Peers! Real Humans. Real Help. Real Time
Hey Peers is a video chat app that allows people to safely browse and join peer support conversations and meetings. You can download the app online for your iPhone device. Android version coming soon. Now available online on the website, too!
Visit and sign up for your FREE account to get started today!
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Meetings List
https://www.heypeers.com/meetings_list
>>> Check out the Hey Peers! Chatrooms List
https://www.heypeers.com/chatrooms
Some More About Hey Peers:
Instant community
Create a community of trusted and like-minded peers – those that share similar challenges and experiences, those that want support, and those that give support. Employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, payers, and individuals can set up an instant community and sponsor peer support for their employees, members or loved ones.
Connect with peers
Would you like to connect with peers or supporters between support group meetings? You can do this on Hey Peers. Individuals can quickly find others who they would like to connect with for mutual support. Connections are secure and confidential with an option to remain anonymous.
Progress tracking
Hey Peers offers a premium option to journal and track moods, wellness, exercise, and other key components of mental and physical wellness. The easy recording of key indicators and important treatment information can help one see progress from support. No personal information is shared.
Available on any device
Access Hey Peers on your laptop, tablet, or mobile. No downloads necessary with our mobile responsive web App that works on any device.
Trusted Peer Facilitators
Hey Peers screens peer support facilitators to make sure they have appropriate credentials, and allows users to rate and review peer leaders to ensure high quality peer support.
our users
Who uses Hey Peers?
Any individual or peer supporter can sign up and use Hey Peers. We also designed our App for small, midsize, and large employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, and insurers to use Hey Peers for their members and employees to improve wellness outcomes in a safe and purpose-build environment.
1:1 Peer Support Coaching
1:1 Peer Coaching is a way for you to work more intensively toward achieving and maintaining yourself as you deal with your life’s challenges. In our 1:1 sessions, you will meet with a certified peer specialist or recovery coach of your choosing. There will be no other participants … just you and your coach.
Peer Support Solutions
Does your organization want to provide a secure digital peer support platform for your members or employees? Hey Peers combines a video conferencing system with chat support groups so that you can offer both regularly scheduled support group meetings and on-demand facilitated peer chat conversations to support everyday needs.
Find out more about our special offer during social distancing by completing the online form at the link below.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/contact
Facilitators
If you are a Peer Supporter that is affiliated with a non-profit that is using Hey Peers, you can sign up directly on Hey Peers to get started.
If you are a Peer Supporter that is certified, trained, or licensed, please complete our Facilitator Application, and fill out the form below as part of our approval process.
https://www.peersupportsolutions.com/facilitators
Hey Peers Tools for Support Groups
Hey Peers offers more administrative tools for managing virtual support groups than Zoom, Skype, Facebook, or other teleconferencing or forum tools including but not limited to:
- Groups or one-on-one conversations
- Peer and meeting match recommendations
- Private, password-protected meeting options
- Approve members subscribing to your organization
- Self-wellness tools that help your members see progress
- Share group documents electronically from your Hey Peers page (no more copying, binding, handing out)
- Direct links to schedules and meetings from your web site – easier to track for facilitators and members
- Track group participation rates
- Custom registration data collection available
- Prepare electronic reports to show the positive impact support groups deliver for fundraising, research and program management
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
Survivor Peer Support Warmline
CALL 855-473-3711 (855-4peer11)
A survivor support line is now available to provide telephone support to those who suffer from all levels of brain impairment. 4peer11 is a survivor run, funded, operated and managed-emotional help line. We do not give medical advice, but we DO have two compassionate ears. We have survived some form of brain injury or are a survivor who is significant in the life of a survivor.
Live operators are available from 9am-9pm Pacific Standard Time. If a call comes when an operator is not free please leave a message. Messages are returned on a regular basis.
Website:
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Brain Injury Support Groups in the Pacific Northwest (incl. online and family):
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Recursos en Espanol / Resources in Spanish
https://www.biaoregon.org/resource-library/recursos-en-espanol/
Contact Information:
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
PO Box 549, Molalla OR 97038
Have YOU HAD a brain injury?
Call: 1-800-544-5243 / 503-961-5675
Website Excerpt(s):
Our Neuro-Resource Facilitation expert can help you and your family find answers to your questions. We offer support in coping with the issues of living with a brain injury and transition back to work as well as the community. This is a FREE service dedicated to helping people choose, get and keep needed services and supports.
- Providing brain injury specific information and resources;
- Enhancing natural supports and connecting you to services, and community resources;
- Providing training to providers for increased capacity of Oregon’s system of services provided;
- Accessing, securing and maximizing funding, both private and public.
- Customized Packet (primary resources distributed) by the Neuro-Resource Facilitators, contains important brain injury information as well as various services/supports for individuals and families experiencing brain injury that is unique to each caller.
- Another resource commonly distributed by our staff is a selection of DVDs.
There is a large library of resources, DVDs, videos, and more available. English and Espanol / Spanish. Plus, specific support for veterans.
Oregon TBI / Brain Injury Support Groups (check for availability ahead of time, and find more online from links above)
Bend
Central Oregon Support Group
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Meeting Place:
Rehab Conference Room, Lower Level
St. Charles Medical Center
2500 NE Neff Rd.
Bend, OR 97701
Contacts:
Joyce and Dave Accornero at (541) 382-9451 or Accornero@bendbroadband.com
Brookings
Brain Injury Group (BIG)
To be announced.
Contact:
(877) 469-8844 or (541) 469-8887
Cottage Grove
BIG II (Brain Injury Group II)
This group meets every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
The Jefferson Park Recreation Room
325 S. Fifth Street
Cottage Grove, OR
Contact:
Anna at (541) 767-0845
Corvallis
Stroke and Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Church of the Good Samaritan Lounge
333 NW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
Contact:
Amy Nistico at (541) 768-5157 at aeasterl@samhealth.org
Eugene
Community Rehabilitation Service of Oregon
This group meets on the third Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Central Presbyterian Church
555 E 15th Ave. (15th & Patterson)
Eugene, OR. 97401
Contact:
Jan Johnson at (541) 342-1980 or comrehabjan@aol.com
BIG (Brain Injury Group)
This group meets on Tuesday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Call for information.
Meeting Place:
Hilyard Community Center
2580 Hilyard Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact:
Curtis Brown at (541) 998-3951 or BCCBrown@aol.com
Hillsboro
Homeward Bound Support Group
This group meets on the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Tuality Community Hospital
335 SE 8th Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Contact:
Carol Altman (503) 640-0818
Klamath Falls
Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the second Tuesday from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
SPOKES
415 Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Contact:
Dawn Lytle at (541) 883-7547 or dawn.lytle@spokesunlimited.org
Lebanon
Brain Injury Support Group of Lebanon
This group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
Lebanon Community Hospital,
Conference Room #6
525 North Santiam Highway
Lebanon, OR 97355
Contact:
Lisa Stoffey at (541) 752-0816 or lstoffey@aol.com
Medford
Turning Point
This group meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
11 West Jackson Street
Medford, OR 97501
Contact:
Pam Ogden at (541) 776-3427 or Pamela.Ogden@sogoodwill.org
Southern Oregon Brainstormers Support and Social Club
This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Providence Medical Center
Birthplace Conf. Rm (Main Entrance, turn left)
1111 Crater Lake Avenue
Medford, OR 97504
Contact:
Lorita Cushman at (541) 772-6528 or LORITAMICKCUSH@aol.com
Molalla
Brain Injury Support Group of Molalla
This group meets on the fourth Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Son’light Vital Foods, Inc.
123 Robbins St.
Molalla, OR 97038
Contact:
Raeleah Brensen at (503) 829-9456 or Skeeter@molalla.net
Newport
Brain Injury Support Group of Newport
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Meeting Place:
4909 S Coast Hwy Suite 340
South Beach, Oregon 97366
Website: www.progressive-options.org
Contact:
(541) 867-4335 or progop541@yahoo.com
Oregon City
Clackamas Community College Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the third Friday of the month (during school year) from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Clackamas Community College McLoughlin Hall
Rm. M226 (2nd floor)
Oregon City, OR
Contact:
Sonja Bolon, MA, at (503) 816-1053 or Brain4you2@gmail.com
Pendleton
Inactive at this time.
For more information contact:
Joyce McFarland-Orr at (541) 278-1194 or jmcfarland@Oregontrail.net
Portland
BIRC Alumni Support Group
This group meets the last Tuesday of every odd month.
Address:
1815 SW Marlow, Ste. 110
Portland, 97225
Contact:
Doug Peterson at (503) 292-0765 or doug@progrehab.com
Brainstormers I Women’s Self-help Group
This group meets the second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Wilcox Building
Room A (Next to Good Samaritan Hospital)
2211 NW Marshall St.
Portland 97210
Contact:
Jane Starbird, PhD, at (503) 493-1221 or drstarbird@aol.com
Brainstormers II Survivor Self-help Group
This group meets the third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – noon.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, M.O.B.-West
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Steve Wright at (503) 413-7707 or biaor@biaoregon.org
Crossroads (Brain Injury Discussion Group)
This group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Independent Living Resources
2410 SE 11th
Portland, OR 97214
Contact:
Christopher Eason at 503-232-7411 or christopher@ilr.org
Family Support Group
This group meets on the third Saturday of the month from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. The group is currently combined with Parents of Children with Brain Injury.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, Rm 1035
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Joyce Kerley at (503) 413-7707 or joycek1145@aol.com
Veteran Resource Navigator
The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) has a comprehensive online resource guide (VETERAN RESOURCE NAVIGATOR) available to assist veterans in finding the benefits that are most useful to their unique circumstances at this time.
Use the link below for the Veteran Resource Navigator
https://www.oregon.gov/
Other Resources Available to Veterans and Military Service Members
- Veteran Resource Navigator site by ODVA: https://www.oregon.gov/
odva/COVID/Pages/default.aspx - (Oregon) Military Help Line: Call 888-457-4838
- VA Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, press 1.
- VA Confidential crisis chat at net or text to 838255
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.
gov/
If you are a veteran or family member with specific questions not addressed here, or if you need other direct assistance, please contact an ODVA Resource Navigator by calling (503) 373-2085 or toll-free at 1-800-692-9666.
Contact ODVA Headquarters
Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs
700 Summer St NE
Salem, OR 97301
Web: https://www.oregon.gov/odva/Pages/default.aspx
Phone: (800) 692-9666 or (503) 373-2085
Fax: (503) 373-2392
Email: orvetsbenefits@odva.state.or.us
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Progress tracking
Hey Peers offers a premium option to journal and track moods, wellness, exercise, and other key components of mental and physical wellness. The easy recording of key indicators and important treatment information can help one see progress from support. No personal information is shared.
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Who uses Hey Peers?
Any individual or peer supporter can sign up and use Hey Peers. We also designed our App for small, midsize, and large employers, nonprofits, health care organizations, and insurers to use Hey Peers for their members and employees to improve wellness outcomes in a safe and purpose-build environment.
1:1 Peer Support Coaching
1:1 Peer Coaching is a way for you to work more intensively toward achieving and maintaining yourself as you deal with your life’s challenges. In our 1:1 sessions, you will meet with a certified peer specialist or recovery coach of your choosing. There will be no other participants … just you and your coach.
Peer Support Solutions
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Facilitators
If you are a Peer Supporter that is affiliated with a non-profit that is using Hey Peers, you can sign up directly on Hey Peers to get started.
If you are a Peer Supporter that is certified, trained, or licensed, please complete our Facilitator Application, and fill out the form below as part of our approval process.
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Hey Peers Tools for Support Groups
Hey Peers offers more administrative tools for managing virtual support groups than Zoom, Skype, Facebook, or other teleconferencing or forum tools including but not limited to:
- Groups or one-on-one conversations
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- Approve members subscribing to your organization
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Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
Survivor Peer Support Warmline
CALL 855-473-3711 (855-4peer11)
A survivor support line is now available to provide telephone support to those who suffer from all levels of brain impairment. 4peer11 is a survivor run, funded, operated and managed-emotional help line. We do not give medical advice, but we DO have two compassionate ears. We have survived some form of brain injury or are a survivor who is significant in the life of a survivor.
Live operators are available from 9am-9pm Pacific Standard Time. If a call comes when an operator is not free please leave a message. Messages are returned on a regular basis.
Website:
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Brain Injury Support Groups in the Pacific Northwest (incl. online and family):
https://www.biaoregon.org/services/support-groups/
Recursos en Espanol / Resources in Spanish
https://www.biaoregon.org/resource-library/recursos-en-espanol/
Contact Information:
Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon
PO Box 549, Molalla OR 97038
Have YOU HAD a brain injury?
Call: 1-800-544-5243 / 503-961-5675
Website Excerpt(s):
Our Neuro-Resource Facilitation expert can help you and your family find answers to your questions. We offer support in coping with the issues of living with a brain injury and transition back to work as well as the community. This is a FREE service dedicated to helping people choose, get and keep needed services and supports.
- Providing brain injury specific information and resources;
- Enhancing natural supports and connecting you to services, and community resources;
- Providing training to providers for increased capacity of Oregon’s system of services provided;
- Accessing, securing and maximizing funding, both private and public.
- Customized Packet (primary resources distributed) by the Neuro-Resource Facilitators, contains important brain injury information as well as various services/supports for individuals and families experiencing brain injury that is unique to each caller.
- Another resource commonly distributed by our staff is a selection of DVDs.
There is a large library of resources, DVDs, videos, and more available. English and Espanol / Spanish. Plus, specific support for veterans.
Oregon TBI / Brain Injury Support Groups (check for availability ahead of time, and find more online from links above)
Bend
Central Oregon Support Group
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Meeting Place:
Rehab Conference Room, Lower Level
St. Charles Medical Center
2500 NE Neff Rd.
Bend, OR 97701
Contacts:
Joyce and Dave Accornero at (541) 382-9451 or Accornero@bendbroadband.com
Brookings
Brain Injury Group (BIG)
To be announced.
Contact:
(877) 469-8844 or (541) 469-8887
Cottage Grove
BIG II (Brain Injury Group II)
This group meets every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
The Jefferson Park Recreation Room
325 S. Fifth Street
Cottage Grove, OR
Contact:
Anna at (541) 767-0845
Corvallis
Stroke and Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Church of the Good Samaritan Lounge
333 NW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
Contact:
Amy Nistico at (541) 768-5157 at aeasterl@samhealth.org
Eugene
Community Rehabilitation Service of Oregon
This group meets on the third Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Central Presbyterian Church
555 E 15th Ave. (15th & Patterson)
Eugene, OR. 97401
Contact:
Jan Johnson at (541) 342-1980 or comrehabjan@aol.com
BIG (Brain Injury Group)
This group meets on Tuesday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Call for information.
Meeting Place:
Hilyard Community Center
2580 Hilyard Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact:
Curtis Brown at (541) 998-3951 or BCCBrown@aol.com
Hillsboro
Homeward Bound Support Group
This group meets on the first Monday of each month from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Tuality Community Hospital
335 SE 8th Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Contact:
Carol Altman (503) 640-0818
Klamath Falls
Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the second Tuesday from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
SPOKES
415 Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Contact:
Dawn Lytle at (541) 883-7547 or dawn.lytle@spokesunlimited.org
Lebanon
Brain Injury Support Group of Lebanon
This group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
Lebanon Community Hospital,
Conference Room #6
525 North Santiam Highway
Lebanon, OR 97355
Contact:
Lisa Stoffey at (541) 752-0816 or lstoffey@aol.com
Medford
Turning Point
This group meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Call for more information.
Meeting Place:
11 West Jackson Street
Medford, OR 97501
Contact:
Pam Ogden at (541) 776-3427 or Pamela.Ogden@sogoodwill.org
Southern Oregon Brainstormers Support and Social Club
This group meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Providence Medical Center
Birthplace Conf. Rm (Main Entrance, turn left)
1111 Crater Lake Avenue
Medford, OR 97504
Contact:
Lorita Cushman at (541) 772-6528 or LORITAMICKCUSH@aol.com
Molalla
Brain Injury Support Group of Molalla
This group meets on the fourth Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Son’light Vital Foods, Inc.
123 Robbins St.
Molalla, OR 97038
Contact:
Raeleah Brensen at (503) 829-9456 or Skeeter@molalla.net
Newport
Brain Injury Support Group of Newport
This group meets on the second Saturday of the month from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Meeting Place:
4909 S Coast Hwy Suite 340
South Beach, Oregon 97366
Website: www.progressive-options.org
Contact:
(541) 867-4335 or progop541@yahoo.com
Oregon City
Clackamas Community College Brain Injury Support Group
This group meets on the third Friday of the month (during school year) from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Clackamas Community College McLoughlin Hall
Rm. M226 (2nd floor)
Oregon City, OR
Contact:
Sonja Bolon, MA, at (503) 816-1053 or Brain4you2@gmail.com
Pendleton
Inactive at this time.
For more information contact:
Joyce McFarland-Orr at (541) 278-1194 or jmcfarland@Oregontrail.net
Portland
BIRC Alumni Support Group
This group meets the last Tuesday of every odd month.
Address:
1815 SW Marlow, Ste. 110
Portland, 97225
Contact:
Doug Peterson at (503) 292-0765 or doug@progrehab.com
Brainstormers I Women’s Self-help Group
This group meets the second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Wilcox Building
Room A (Next to Good Samaritan Hospital)
2211 NW Marshall St.
Portland 97210
Contact:
Jane Starbird, PhD, at (503) 493-1221 or drstarbird@aol.com
Brainstormers II Survivor Self-help Group
This group meets the third Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. – noon.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, M.O.B.-West
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Steve Wright at (503) 413-7707 or biaor@biaoregon.org
Crossroads (Brain Injury Discussion Group)
This group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Meeting Place:
Independent Living Resources
2410 SE 11th
Portland, OR 97214
Contact:
Christopher Eason at 503-232-7411 or christopher@ilr.org
Family Support Group
This group meets on the third Saturday of the month from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. The group is currently combined with Parents of Children with Brain Injury.
Meeting Place:
Emanuel Hospital, Rm 1035
2801 N Gantenbein
Northeast Portland, OR 97227
Contact:
Joyce Kerley at (503) 413-7707 or joycek1145@aol.com