Here is a directory of support groups. For information on meeting times and locations, call the telephone number listed with each group.

- ABOARD (autism and other related disorders)

Melissa Morgan, 724-538-9295

- AIDS/HIV illness

Rebecca Fullerton, 724-283-3636

- Al-Anon

800-628-8920.

- Alcoholics Anonymous

724-679-5647

- Alzheimer’s

-- Fosnight Retirement Home, 724-443-3790,

-- Sugar Creek Rest, Charlene Nagle, 724-445-3146, 2 p.m. third Monday of every month, also for families of those who suffer from dementia and depression

-- Worthington at Adams assisted living center, 500 Seven Fields Boulevard, Pam Adamski, 724-779-5020, meets at 6:30 p.m. first Monday and at 1:30 p.m. last Friday of every month

-- Butler Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 325 New Castle Road, Betty Bonner 724-285-2211, meets at 11 a.m. first Thursday of every month

-- Lifesteps Adult Day Healthcare, 383 New Castle Road, Susan Duttenhoeffer, 724-283-1010 Ext. 234, meets at 3 p.m. third Tuesday of each month

- Armstrong County Memorial Hospital support groups

-- CARE Cancer Recovery

-- Chronic Pain

-- Diabetes

-- Heart Club

-- Lupus

-- Ostomy

For information, call 724-543-8457

- Arthritis

Verna Vargo, 724-287-1344

- Autism Society of Butler County

Davy and Mary Wildman, 724-538-4425

- Bipolar (manic depression)

Pete Szura, 724-283-7860

Grapevine Center, Betty Peoples, 724-283-1704

- Butler Memorial Hospital support groups

-- Breast Cancer

-- Chronic Fatigue/Fibromyalgia

-- Diabetes

-- Gastric by-pass

-- Held in Love (Pregnancy Loss)

-- Look Good, Feel Better

-- Multiple Sclerosis

-- Overeaters anonymous

-- Parents of Heroin Users

For information, call 724-284-4232

- CARE (for caregivers)

Mary Jo Palmer, 724-458-7760

- Common Bond (Chronic illness, chronic pain)

Chuck Jennings, 724-287-3132

- Community Care Connections

Pat Brennen, 724-283-3198

- Depression

Betty Peoples, 724-283-1704

- VOICe (Adult incest survivors, significant-others, rape survivors, and teen survivors)

800-400-8551

- Family caregiver

Call Area Agency on Aging, 724-282-3008

- Family to Family (Families and friends of the mentally ill)

Joan Gill, 724-285-4738

- Multiple Sclerosis Club

Jacque Cinski, 724-898-2116

- Myasthenia Gravis (An auto-immune neuro-muscular disorder)

Helen Christy, 724-285-4380

- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)

Theresa Mortimer, 724-287-4083

- Overeaters Anonymous

724-282-3002

- Held in Love (For people who have pregnancy loss or newborn or stillborn death)

Shelley Boyles, 724-284-4894.

- Parents Heroin, Drug and Alcohol Support Group

Ann Loper, 724 284-4357, Ext. 4016

- Grief Support Program for Children (For young people who suffered a loss)

Colleen Gianneski/Danielle Schmidt, 724-284-4894

- Sharing Our Sorrows (Coping with loss)

Mary, 724-452-3446

- Someone’s Caring (Dealing with the death of a loved one)

Robin Miller, 724-287-3706

- Survivors of Suicide

Cindy, 724-756-2771

- UPMC/Passavant

-- Alzheimers

-- Aphasia

-- Bereavement

-- Breast Cancer

-- Cardiac

-- Caregivers

-- Diabetes

-- Living with Cancer

-- Look Good, Feel Better

-- Lupus

-- Multiple Sclerosis

-- Stop Smoking

For information, call 412-367-5200.

- The Victory Group

Drug and alcohol

For information, call 724-772-7026, Ext. 22.

- Victim Outreach Intervention Center (Victims of domestic violence, battered women or parenting)

For information, call 800-400-8551.

- Weathering Grief (Dealing with the death of a loved one)

Offered through VNA Hospice, Jolene Formaini, 724-282-6806, Ext. 250

To have a listing in the support group index, call Kelly Garrett, 724-282-8000, Ext. 249.