Community Support Groups

q Groups

  • Q Groups are spaces for LGBTQ+ or questioning students to hang out, make friends, and get support

  • Groups are facilitated by staff from the SPAHR Center

  • Meeting days and times are different at each site:

    • Redwood: Tuesdays during SMART

    • Archie Williams: Wednesdays during Tutorial (2:15 in Wellness)

    • Tam: Wednesdays at 2:10 (in Wellness)

  • Check out the SPAHR Center's website for more information about their other LGBTQ+ groups!

  • For immediate support, use the Trevor Project Hotline 1-866-488-7386.

Narratives of Color

  • Narratives of Color is a safe space for young people of color in the Tam District who identify as womxn, girls, or non-binary to come together, share their experiences, gain tools of reflection, identity, communication, and support towards empowerment and full expression.

  • When there isn't space for us, we make the space we need through the magic of connection and sisterhood.

  • Join Miss Amber Allen-Peirson, a highly skilled black-bi-racial-woman-healer and facilitator, to build space for the stories of our experiences so they can be clear for us and our community.

  • Meeting day and time for 2021-22 TBD - check back soon!

The Heirs

  • The Heirs are a brotherhood of young men, boys, and non-binary people of color and their allies who discover their abilities and explore their infinite possibilities! We will sharpen our supreme skills of precision focus and discernment in order to craft and realize maximum potential. Let’s build the Tam chapter of The Heirs Society together and stand tall. ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE.

  • Join Daniell D.Young, a forward thinking, strength based LCSW and U.S. Air Force veteran who strives for excellence and social justice. Tap in every Thursday as we chisel up and sharpen your blade!

  • Meeting day and time for 2021-22 TBD - check back soon!

Not-On-Tobacco

  • Not On Tobacco® (N-O-T) is the American Lung Association's voluntary quit vaping + smoking program for teens ages 14 – 19

  • 8-week program where participants learn to identify their reasons for smoking, healthy alternatives to tobacco use, and people who will support them in their efforts to quit

  • Stop by Wellness at your site for more information and to sign up

  • For more information on N.O.T., click here

For more immediate support to quit nicotine, CALL OR VISIT

CA Smokers helpline OR TEEN.sMOKEFREE.GOV

1-800-No-Butts

1-844-4-No-vape

Alateen

  • Alateen is Al-Anon for kids, ages 12 – 19. Al-Anon is for friends and family of addicts and problem drinkers. We believe alcoholism and addiction is a disease that not only affects those suffering with alcoholism, but also those who love them.

  • Al-Anon is a program of recovery that uses the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. That said, we do not work to help people with sobriety. We work with the loved ones of the alcoholics to find their own pace and support, whether the drinker or substance abuser is sober or not.

  • Marin group meets Sundays at 6 pm

  • Email marinalateen@gmail.com for zoom

  • For more information on Al-Anon: https://al-anon.org/

  • For more information on Alateen: https://al-anon.org/newcomers/teen-corner-alateen/

About our weekly Alateen Zoom meeting

  • The Alateen group is organized and led by Alateen teenagers.

  • The meeting is attended by two adult Al-Anon sponsors who have passed an FBI background check.

  • The adult members are there to ensure safety and behavioral guidelines are followed.

  • While using Zoom, we follow safety guidelines to keep out anyone who is not a teenager looking for recovery.

It can be extremely difficult to negotiate the often-contradictory emotions that accompany a suicide loss, and finding support in negotiating these feelings can seem like an impossible task.

SOS: Allies For Hope

Survivors of Suicide Bereavement Support Group (SOS)

2nd Wednesday of every month

7-8:30pm Virtual.

Call 415.492.0614 to get a zoom link or email SOSinfo@Buckelew.org

Thriving together

Youth Support Group for Transition Age Youth 16+

  • Tuesdays at 2pm on Zoom

  • A support group to share and connect with others. Some of the topics in the group include but are not limited to, wellness strategies, grounding techniques, positive reflections, peer advocacy, goal planning, and more. The group is structured and facilitated by a peer with lived experience.

  • Click here to join on any Tuesday. Participants will be greeted by a navigator. Ask to join the “thriving together youth support group” and a greeter will direct you!

Email mparker@marincounty.org for more info.

Peer Health Exchange

Peer Health Exchange offers a virtual question-and-answer service called Asking for a Friend. Click the "ask" button in the bottom right of the screen to have your question answered by a College Student Health Educator.

Additionally, they have many videos of tips from college students on how to manage mental health (and everything else) during this time!