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Support Groups - Central Arkansas

 

Benton (Saline County)-Look Good...Feel Better

Location: Saline County Memorial Hospital, #1 Medical park Drive-Lunch

Provided

Contact: Call 501-776-6177 or 501-776-6177 to register.

 

Conway (Faulkner County)-Bosom Buddies

Location: Conway Regional Medical Center – Board Room

When: 3rd Thursday of the month at 5:30 p.m.

Contact: Joyce Norton 501-450-2341 / jnorton@svcglobal.net

Serves:  Any person with breast cancer

 

Conway (Faulkner County)-Look Good...Feel Better

Location: Conway Regional Medical Center Women's Center, 2302 College

Avenue, Conway, AR.

Contact:Trudy Hightower, 501-513-5230.

 

 Conway ( Faulkner County) – Share Our Strength

Location: Conway Regional Medical Center – Board Room

When:

Contact Joyce Norton 501-450-2341 / jnorton@svcglobal.net

 

Damascus, Beebe & Morganton Areas ( Faulkner County)

Location: Masonic Lodge Hall – Damascus

When: Meeting times vary – please call

Contact: Barbara Bradford 501-335-7317

Serves: Any person with cancer

 

Hot Springs (Garland County) – Cancer Support Group

Location:  AMI National Park Hospital - Outpatient
When:

Contact: Dina Wunderlin  501-321-1000 or 0004/501-620-2375

Serves: Any person with cancer

 

Hot Springs (Garland County) – Bosom Buddies

Location: AMI National Park Hospital – Breast Center

When: 2nd or 3rd Thursday of the month

Contact: Dana Wunderlin  501-620-2375

Serves: Any person with Breast Cancer

 

Hot Springs (Garland County) – Cancer Survivors Group

Location: St. Joseph’s Hospital or Katherine’s Kitchen

When: 

Contact: Regina Foster  501-622-4730                         

Serves: Any person with any type of cancer

 

Hot Springs (Garland County)

Location: St. Joseph’s

When:

Contact: Sister Liz

Serves:

 

Benton ( Saline County) – Ladies Cancer Support Group

Location: First Baptist Church

When: 3rd Monday of the month at 7:00 p.m.

Contact: Pat White 501-860-7423 / Church 501-315-2270

Serves: Any woman with cancer

 

Little Rock (Pulaski County) – Just Between Friends Breast Cancer Support Group for African American Women

Location: 5001 W. 34th Street

When:  1st Saturday of the month at 3 p.m.

Contact:  Lora Duffy  501-568-0971

Serves:  Any African American woman with Breast Cancer

 

Little Rock (Pulaski County) – Dialogue Support Group

Location:  Hope Lodge at 2122 S. Broadway

When: Wednesdays at 2:30 p.m.

Contact: Janet Holman 501-374-5869

Serves: Any person with cancer

 

Little Rock ( Pulaski County) – Bosom Buddies

Location: Baptist Medical Center – Hickingbotham Outpatient Center – 9500 Kanis Road – 2nd floor Women’s Resource Center

When:

Contact:  Patsy Thurman  501-202-7386

Serves: Any person with Breast Cancer

 

Little Rock (Pulaski County)- Look Good...Feel Better

Location: Baptist Health Women's Resource Center, Higginbotham Outpatient Center, 2nd floor, 9500 Kanis Road, Little Rock, AR. To Register Call: 501-202-7386.

Baptist Health Medical Center, 3333 Springhill Dr, North Little Rock, AR.

To Register Call: 501-202-6888.

Saint Vincent Infirmary Women's Center, #2 Saint Vincent Circle, Little Rock, AR. To Register Call: 501-660-3433.

UAMS Family Home, 4300 West Markham, Little Rock, AR. To Register Call:  501-978-2903.

 

 Little Rock (Pulaski County) – New Outlook: The Women’s Cancer  Recovery Support Group

Location: St. Vincent Health System Cancer Center

When: 

Contact:  Alesa Garner 501-552-3900 / 800-446-7341 agarner@stvincenthealth.com

Serves: Any woman with cancer

 

Little Rock (Pulaski County) – Cancer Friends & Family

Location: Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church

4823 Woodlawn Avenue

When: Monthly – sometimes at lunch

Contact:  Michelle Mann 223-3575/Alice Smith 663-4158

Serves: Any person with cancer & their family

 

 

Little Rock (Pulaski County) – Women of Faith of Color

Women’s Project

Location:  2224 S. Main

When:  no regular schedule – meets on call

Contact:  372-5113

Serves: Any African American woman with cancer.

 

Little Rock (Pulaski County) – Just Among Women

Location:  Strauss-McCaskill Room #1017 on the 10th  floor

of Arkansas Cancer Research Center at UAMS

When:  2nd Monday of the month at 11 a.m. – 12:30

Contact:  Debbie Dean 501-686-1834

Serves: Women with gynecological cancers

 

Little Rock (Pulaski County) – Lymphedema Support Group

Location:  Strauss-McCaskill Room #1017 on the 10th floor of

Arkansas  Cancer Research Center at UAMS

When: 3rd Tuesday of the month at 11a.m.-12:30

Contact: Debbie Dean 501-686-1834

Serves: Any person with Lymphedema

 

North Little Rock:

Location: Church

             

North Little Rock ( Pulaski County) – Bosom Buddies

Location: Baptist Health Medical Center, North Little Rock

3333 Springhill Drive

When:

Contact: Becky Caruthers  501-202-6888

Serves: Any person with Breast Cancer

 

Sherwood ( Pulaski County) – Breast Cancer Support Group

Location: St. Vincent Rehabilitation Hospital

When:
Contact: Alesa Garner 501-552-3900 agarner@stvincenthealth.com

Serves: Any person with Breast Cancer

 

Support Groups -  Southeast Arkansas

 

Crossett (Ashley County) – Cancer support group

Location:

When: Starts Summer 2004

Contact:  Barbara Boyett 870-364-8920

Serves: Any person with Breast Cancer

 

 Stuttgart (Arkansas County) – Breast Friends

Location:  Gossip Shop Restaurant

When:

Contact:  Lois Ann Jackson 501-975-5023 or 870-676-8395

Serves: Any person with Breast Cancer

 

Pine Bluff ( Jefferson County) – Caring Bosom Friends

Location:  303 N. Maple 

When: Meets as needed

Contact:  Dr. Josetta Wilkins 870-534-5852

Serves:

 

Pine Bluff ( Jefferson County) – Bosom Buddies

Location: Jefferson Regional

 

Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) – Friends Female Cancer Support Group

Location: Leon’s Catfish Hwy 79 S. PineBluff

When:  2nd Monday of the month at 6:00 p.m.

Contact:  Cathy Campbell 870-535-0467

Serves: Any woman with any type of female cancer

 

Forrest City (St. Francis County) – Flying Colors Cancer Support Group
Location:  Baptist Hospital – Baptist Hospital Conference Room

When:  4th Monday of the month at 7 p.m.
Contact: Paster Don Marston & Betty Dozier, RN 800-877-6734

Serves: Any person with any type of cancer

 

Redfield (Jefferson County) – Breast Cancer Support Group

Location: Scott Building ( behind Methodist Church)

When:

Contact: Alesa Garner 501-552-3900 agarner@stvincenthealth.com

Serves: Any woman with Breast Cancer

 

Support Groups - Southwest Arkansas

 

Hope (County)

Location: St. Marks Episcopal Church

 

Magnolia (Columbia County) – Steel Magnolias Breast Cancer Support Group

Location:  Usually meets at the Bancorp South building

When: 2nd Thursday of each month

Contact: Patsy Bently 870-234-7916  pagbentley@yahoo.com

Mary Gunnels 870-234-2141

Serves: Any women or men with Breast Cancer

 

Malvern (Hot Springs Co.) – Women’s Cancer Support Group

Location: Hot Springs County Medical Center, Board Room

When: 2nd Thursday of the month at 6p.m.

Contact: Connie Cheatham  501-332-7361

Serves: Any woman with any type of cancer.

 

Camden (Ouachita) – Second Chance

Location: Hillside Baptist Church

When: 2nd Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m.

Contact: Pat Hodnett 870-836-6106(H) or 870-836-5033(W)

Serves:

 

El Dorado (Union County) –

Location: Holy Redeemer

When:

Contact: Tina Roark

Serves: Any person with breast cancer

 

Texarkana (Miller County) – Dialogue Support Group

Location:  Christus St. Michael Hospital Cancer Center

Conference Room A

When: Last Tuesday of the month at 5:30 p.m.

Contact:  Penny Hardy 903-614-2111

Serves: Any person with any type of cancer

 

Texarkana (Miller County) – Breast Cancer Support Group

Location: Christus St. Michael Hospital Cancer Center

Conference Room A

When: 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month at 5:30 p.m.

Contact:  Sandra Griffin 903-614-2675

Serves: Any person with Breast Cancer

 

Mena & Waldron ( Polk County) – Patient & Family Support

Location: Meets at the VFW Hall in Waldron

When: 2nd Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m.

Contact: Wanda Grandstaff 479-782-6302 / 800-262-9917

 

Support Groups - Northwest Arkansas

 

Bentonville ( Washington County) – Bosom Buddies

Location: Bentonville Cancer Support Home, 306 HWY 72 East

When: 2nd Tuesday of the month at noon

Contact: Megan Murphy 479-271-2257  mmurphy@wregional.com

Serves:  Any  person with Breast Cancer

 

Bentonville (Washington County) – Cancer Support Group

Location: Bentonville Cancer Support Home, 306 HWY 72 East

When: 

Contact: Megan Murphy 479-271-2257 mmurphy@wregional.com

Serves:  Any person with cancer

 

Booneville ( Logan County) – Patient & Family Support Group

Location: The Meeting Place ( next to Citizen’s Bank)

When: Mondays 6 p.m.

Contact: Wanda Grandstaff 479-782-6302 / 800-262-9917

Serves: Any cancer patient and their family

 

Fayetteville (Washington County) – Bosom Buddies

Location:  Cancer Support Home, 1101 N. Woolsey Ave

When: 3rd Tuesday of the month at noon

Contact: Megan Murphy 479-521-8024 mmurphy@wregional.com

Serves: Any person with Breast Cancer

 

Fort Smith (Sebastian County) –Women’s Cancer Support Group

Location:  Reynolds Cancer Support House, 3324 S. M Street

When: Mondays  at 10 a.m., 5p.m., 5:30 p.m.

            Tuesdays at 5 p.m.

            Wednesdays at 10 a.m.

Contact: Wanda Grandstaff  479-782-6302 / 800-262-9917

Serves:  Any woman with any type of cancer.

 

Fort Smith (Sebastian County) – Hispanic  Cancer Support Group

Location: Reynolds Cancer Support House, 3324 S. M Street

When: Tuesdays at 6 p.m.

Contact: Wanda Grandstaff 479-782-6302 / 800-262-9917

Serves: Any Hispanic person with cancer

 

Fort Smith ( Sebastian County) – Women’s Breast Cancer

Location: Reynolds Cancer Support House, 3324 S. M Street

When: Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m., Thursdays at 5:30 p.m.

Contact: Wanda Grandstaff 479-782-6302 / 800-262-9917

Serves: Any woman with Breast Cancer

 

Fort Smith ( Sebastian County) – Life Transition Group

Location: Reynolds Cancer Support House, 3324 S. M Street

When: Wednesdays

Contact: Wanda Grandstaff 479-782-6302 / 800-262-9917

Serves: Any one transitioning their life around cancer

 

Fort Smith (Sebastian County) – Cancer Patient & Family Support Group

Location: Reynolds Cancer Support House, 3324 S. Main Street

When: Thursdays at 6:30

Contact: Wanda Grandstaff 479-782-6302/ 800-262-9917

Serves: Any cancer patient and their family

 

Harrison (Boone County)  - Dialogue Support Group

Location:  Meets at First Christian Church

When: 1st & 3rd Mondays of the month at 4 p.m.

Contact: Cloten Cowan  870-741-9560

Serves: Any person with cancer of any kind

 

Mountain Home (Baxter County) – Coping with Cancer

Location: Meets at Peitz Cancer Support House, 315 Powers Street

When: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.

Contact: Jan Heine 870-508-1771

Serves: Any person with cancer of any kind

 

Mountain Home (Baxter County) – Gynecologic Cancer Support

Location:  Meets at Peitz Cancer Support House, 315 Powers Street

When:

Contact Jan Heine 870-508-2273

Serves:  Any woman with gynecological cancer

 

Mountain Home (Baxter County) – Breast Cancer Survivors

Location: Meets at Peitz Cancer Support House, 315 Powers Street

When:

Contact: Jan Heine 870-508-2273

Serves: Any woman with Breast Cancer

 

Ozark (Franklin County) – Patient and Family Support Group

Location: 107 N. 9th Street ( Dr. Westbrook’s Clinic )

When: 2nd Thursday of the month at 5 p.m.

Contact:  Wanda Grandstaff 479-782-6302 / 800- 262-9917

Serves:  All cancer patients and their families

 

Russellville (Pope County) – Bosom Buddies

Location: Meets at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Cancer Center

When: 2nd Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m.

Contact: Marion Eckert 479-641-2902

Serves: Any person with breast cancer

 

Springdale ( Washington County) – Cancer Support Group

Location:  1215 S. Thompson

When:

Contact: Julie Allen  479-756-9172

Serves:

 

Springdale (Washington County) – Cancer Support Group

Location:  First Baptist Church -  1709 Johnson Road

When:

Contact:  Becky Seaman ( Pastor’s wife) 479-751-4523

Serves:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Support Groups – Northeast Arkansas

 

NorthEast Arkansas-All Sessions are held on Mondays from 10:00 am until noon. Call 1-800-ACS 2345 for session location and to register.

Jonesboro (Craighead County)-Look Good...Feel Better

Location: St. Bernards and NEA Hospital

Paragould (Greene County)

Blytheville (Mississippi County)

Forrest City (St. Francis County)

Helena (Phillips County)

Support Program: Reach to Recovery

A peer support program for women diagnosed with breast cancer.

Location: Available in Central, Southwest, Southeast, Northwest, Northeast Arkansas

Contact: Call 1-800-ACS-2345 for a Reach Visitor in your area and for additional program information.

 

Blytheville (Mississippi County) – Flying Colors

Location: Baptist Hospital – Baptist Cancer Institute

When: 4th Thursday of the month at 7 p.m.

Contact: Pastor Don Marston & Betty Dozier, RN 800-877-6734

Serves: Any person with cancer

 

Jonesboro (Craighead County) –Breast Cancer Support Group

Location: St Bernard’s Medical Center

When:

Contact:  Mary Katherine Berry, RN  870-935-3196

Serves:  Any person with Breast Cancer

 

Jonesboro (Craighead County) – Family Affair

Location:  NEA Clinic -311 East Matthews Ave.-1st floor

When: 4th Tuesday  from 6p.m. – 7p.m.

Contact:

Serves: Cancer patients and their families

 

Paragould (Greene County) – Woman to Woman

Location:  Arkansas Methodist Medical Center Campus

                 Professional Office Building Auditorium

When:  3rd Monday of the month  6:30 p.m.

Contact:  Kim Woodhouse 870-239-7094

                Carrie Rowland  870-239-7826

Serves: Any woman with cancer.