NJ Self-Help Group Clearinghouse
Our Clearinghouse helps people to find & form any type of mutual help support group. From anywhere within NJ, phone 1-800-367-6274, or 1-800-FOR-M.A.S.H. (Mutual Aid Self-Help) to obtain information on any of over 4,500 local NJ self-help support groups, and over 1,100 national and online self-helps groups for most any illness, disability, addiction, bereavement situation, parenting problem, caregiver concern, abuse history, victim issue, or other stressful life situation. Free help to those persons interested in starting a new self-help group in their community is provided, in small part by networking them with subsequent callers from that same area who inquire about that type of group. Since our start in 1980, our Clearinghouse has helped over a thousand individuals to start new support groups in NJ.
"My years as a medical practitioner, as well as my own first-hand experience, have taught me how important self-help groups are in assisting their members in dealing with problems, stress, hardship and pain... Today, the benefits of mutual aid are experienced by millions of people who turn to others with a similar problem to attempt to deal with their isolation, powerlessness, alienation, and the awful feeling that nobody understands." - former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, MD
