Support Groups Queensland Inc

Support Groups Queensland Inc provides support for support groups. We support people to find and sustain support groups to improve their health. Self help and peer support groups may be large or small, online or face to face, informal or structured, stand alone or part of a network. They vary across a broad range of health conditions and related well-being issues, including genetic conditions, mental health, chronic illness, disability, grief and loss, parenting, carer support, sexual health, addiction, abuse, violence, multicultural, social action, rare diseases, refugees etc. Our aim is to support Queenslanders to share their lived experience of health and disease with others to improve their own and each other’s well-being. We help establish, develop, promote and sustain support groups in Queensland. We act as a point of contact for community members, organisations and professionals to locate groups for themselves, their family, clients or patients. Following the processes of support groups, we work with groups to set their own agenda of how we can work together. It may be about the practical - venues, governance advice, policy and promotion. It may be about the people - group dynamics, future strategy and communication. We believe that peer support should not be an afterthought.