Hepatitis C Patient Support Groups can provide a valuable supplement to health care professionals who are attempting to deal with the many impacts of this disease upon patients and their families. Limitations on time and resources in the medical system can often restrict the amount of time that health care professionals can spend with each individual patient. Support groups can extend and support the education of patients and their families, providing facts about the many aspects of this illness, and at the same time giving valuable emotional and psychological support. This service can greatly improve the ability of patients to understand and manage their chronic illness, and do so at very low cost.

The Hepatitis Education Project has developed a new Support Group Program, based on extensive research and evaluation of support group needs. The program is designed to provide training, consultation and materials for affiliated support group leaders, to improve recruitment and retention of both leaders and members of support groups. For more details about this program, Click Here

The program is in its earliest stages, with six support groups in Western Washington affiliated at present. We expect to expand that number rapidly over the next year or so, as new groups are formed and existing groups join us. The resources that we provide for support group leaders are proving very popular, and we expect to recruit many more groups over the coming year.

All of our affiliated support group leaders have completed our training program, and our materials are reviewed and evaluated by our staff and directors, to read more about our staff: Click Here

The materials are available for your review: Here

We encourage you to inform your hepatitis C patients about this new resource and refer them to our webpage for more information. We would welcome and comments or inquiries about our program.

Contact our Executive Director, Michael Ninburg, at 206-732-0311 or mhninburg@hepeducation.org