OPAL Self-Help Group

♿ Welcome! 🍁

🦼 We're a free self-help support group for
physically-challenged individuals and caregivers 🦮

OPAL members typically manage daily life while coping with a variety of conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, Spinal Cord Injury, Fibromyalgia, Post-Polio Syndrome, Arthritis, and Stroke. The list of conditions reaches far beyond this basic list.

Our members self-identify as physically or mobility-challenged adults, and we welcome adult caregivers of dependents with physical challenges as well.

We serve residents of the Municipality of West Perth, Ontario and its surrounding communities. This includes Mitchell, Dublin, Brodhagen, Bornholm, Fullarton, and others. We welcome members from other nearby communities in Perth County.

Woman in a wheelchair pays for her cafe goods with a smartphone app.

OPAL aims to support each other with practical ways to navigate daily life while challenged
and advocate to reduce barriers.

Our mission

Together, OPAL members strive to:

Actively support each other, foster mutual understanding, and build confidence to function to the best of our abilities.
Encourage participants to articulate their own particular needs.
Build social activities that encourage involvement, leading to improved self-image and increase confidence.
Raise public awareness of obstacles faced by the physically challenged, through advocacy

Smiling couple, with woman in a wheelchair, sitting and holding hands at a park

Join us today!

Meetings

Second Wednesday of each month

1-3 p.m.

West Perth Municipal Office

160 Wellington Street

Mitchell, Ontario N0K 1N0

Accessible transportation is available

via West Perth Transit.

We can help you arrange it.

To donate funds or goods for one of our fundraising sales, please contact OPAL .

We thank Melanie Reasbeck,
Founder of Mythos Strategic Communications
in Mitchell for her communications assistance.

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