Support Programs

Why should you attend an MS support group?

• Hear current MS information and research
• Find reassurance and support from others with similar life experiences
• Feel less isolated
• Discover resources in your community
• Become empowered and more self-confident in coping with challenges

Care Partner Support Group

Find comfort and strength with other spouses and partners, as you learn new resources and make new connections. Share your story and learn new ways to meet the challenges MS brings to a relationship.

Date: 4th Thursday of the month

Time: 6-7:30pm

Location:
Evergreen Hospital
Room Green B 204
12040 NE 128th St. 
Kirkland, WA  98034

Contact:
Gregg Robinson  206-284-4254, ext. 40243
gregg.robinson@nmss.org

Evergreen Men's Group

Feeling like your world is a little out of control? Your body and brain are in a conspiracy not to work together and make your life miserable? Come join other men with neurological concerns to explore what is happening to our minds and bodies as we look for ways to cope and to thrive in spite of our limitations.

Date:2nd Tuesday of each month

Time:3-4 p.m.

Location:
Rainier Room (2nd floor)
DeYoung Pavilion (adjacent to Evergreen Hospital
12039 NE 128th Street
Kirkland, WA 98034

Contact: No registration necessary

Evergreen Women's Group

Neurological conditions present unique challenges that can affect how your mind and body are working and how you interact with the world around you. Join other women facing similar challenges to share ideas and experiences, and support each other. We will talk not only about how to cope with problems, but also how to maximize quality of life.

Date: 3rd Thursday of each month

Time: 3-4 p.m. 

Location:
Rainier Room (2nd floor)
DeYoung Pavilion (adjacent to Evergreen Hospital
12039 NE 128th Street
Kirkland, WA 98034

Contact: No registration necessary 

Kirkland Multiple Sclerosis Self-Help Group

Date: 3rd Thursday of each month

Time: 7-9 p.m.

Location:
Evergreen Hospital
Tan Room 121
12040 NE 128th St.
Kirkland, WA 98034

Contact:
Jill:   425.861.1931
Karen:  karcu@hotmail.com

National MS Society Northwest Chapter Self Help Groups

More than 40 self-help groups across Western and Central Washington, Montana, and Alaska give people with MS the chance to meet and talk with others who share their challenges and successes. The chapter also sponsors groups serving those with specific interests, such as caregivers, LGBT, men, mothers, and young adults. 

For more information about self-help groups in your area:

• visit www.MSnorthwest.org and click on Programs and Services/Emotional Support
• call 800.344.4867 and press option 1

Greater Northwest MS Telephone Support Group

Sponsored by National MS Society Northwest Chapter 

Date: 3rd Wednesday of the month

Time: 1-2 p.m.

Contact: 800.346.3659, code 2713#

Peer Support: Someone to Listen

Sponsored by National MS Society Northwest Chapter

Do you have questions: Want help finding resources? Need someone to listen? Then get connected with a trained volunteer, living with MS and find the support you are looking for. Through regular phone conversations, participants and peers discuss such things as employment concerns, disclosing a diagnosis, doping with fatigue, pain or other symptoms, MS treatment options, finding resources, and managing relationships with family and friends. 

To find out more, please call 800.344.4867, then press option 1.

For additional support group offerings in your community, please visit the National MS Society website  or call 800.344.4867.