Support groups offer help

ADD Family Resource Centre is offering a number of programs for parents with children with AD/HD, including a Parental Skills training program, a social skills program and a teen coaching program for adolescents. For more information, call 514-685-5912

Al-Anon family groups holds support groups for relatives and friends of alcoholics. Come share with people who have been there. For more information, call 866-9803.

Alzheimers Group Inc. provides caring professional support for individuals, families and the community living with Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. For more information, call 514-485-7233 or visit www.alzheimergroupe.org.

Compulsive Eaters Anonymous is a self-help group aimed at helping you to lose weight which meets on Fridays, at 9.30 a.m. on the West Island. For more information, call 514-697-4332.

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Montreal offers support and information to persons suffering from depression and bipolar. The group meets every Monday at 7:30 p.m. at 106A Anselme Lavigne Blvd., Dollard des Ormeaux. (corner of Westpark Blvd.) For more information, call 514-684-0465.

Gamblers Anonymous meets at the West Island Community Resource Centre, 114 Donegani Ave. in Pointe Claire, Sundays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. All ages are welcome. For more information, call 514-484-6666.

Low Vision Self-Help Association meets the second Thursday of every month at 1 p.m. at St. John the Baptist Church, 233 Ste. Claire Ave. in Pointe Claire. For more information, call 514-697-3852.

McGill Centre for Loss and Bereavement offers individual and group support services. Groups include adult loss, loss of a child, survivors of suicide and loss of a mother prior to the age of 20 years old. For more information, call 514-398-7058.

Obesity Incorporated is looking for people who want to talk about the cause and cure of obesity syndrome. It has set up a walking-initiative project that teams-up two for health walks. The organization is currently looking for walkers to team up with a young woman with children in Anjou, a mature, energetic, lady in Ste. Geneviève, and a young lady in St. Laurent. For more information, call 514-684-4409.

One Parent Families Association is for single parents who are separated, divorced, widowed who meet every Saturday at 9:30 a.m. for breakfast. Children are welcome. For more information, call 514-428-0354.

Pilgrim Project bereavement support groups are offered to those coping with loss of a loved one. Professionally led. Free of charge. For more information, call 514-633-9315.

Recovery Inc., a self-help organization that demonstrates techniques to deal effectively for people suffering from anxiety, depression and fears meets on Monday evenings at 7:30 p.m. at St Geneviève United Church, 4697 St John’s Blvd. (back entrance) and on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. at St John’s United Church, 98 Aurora Ave. in Pointe Claire (back entrance). For more information, call 514-697-8783.

Steps for Life is an association serving mild to borderline, intellectually-challenged young adults which provides many activities welcomes new members. Volunteers are very much needed to animate and run new programs. For more information, call 514-421-4245 between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Tops (take off pounds sensibly), a self-help group dealing with weight loss, meets Wednesdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Cedar Park Heights chalet, 20 Robinsdale St., Pointe Claire. For more information, call 514-695-7137.

West Island CALACs (Centre d’Aide et de Lutte contre les Agressions à Caractere Sexuel), provides free individual counselling and evening support groups for women survivors of sexual assault and offers prevention, education and organize training sessions. For more information, call 514-620-4333.

West Island Cancer Self-Help Group meets every second and fourth Thursday of the month at 1 p.m., 750 Dawson Ave. in Dorval. For information, call 514-631-3720.

Pat Roberts Centre, 16167 Gouin Blvd., Ste. Geneviève, is accepting new registrations. It offers a specialized preschool program for children from birth to 5 years old with development delays and autism. For more information, call 514-696-5144.