Local Support Groups, General

Provides educational material to the public in areas of home economics, horticulture, agriculture, 4-H youth programs, community development, and water quality.

• Stepfamily/Blended Family Support Groups
• Youth Agricultural Programs
• Nutrition Education
• Parenting Skills Classes
• Relationship Workshops

Free virtual and in-person parenting, couple and stepfamily courses offered as part of Healthy Relationships Utah, which is part of USU extension.  For more details about Healthy Relationships Utah, please visit https://extension.usu.edu/hru/.

Welcome Baby is a free community service designed to promote a healthy, secure and enjoyable beginning for parents, new babies and their family members.

• Home Based Parenting Education
• Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
• Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
• Parent/Child Activity Groups
• Early Literacy Development Programs
• Parent Support Groups

Provides activities and peer support to mothers of multiples that live in Utah County.

• Adult Literacy Programs
• Dating Violence Prevention
• Head Start
• Life Skills Education
• Stepfamily/Blended Family Support Groups
• Certificates/Forms Assistance
• Early Head Start

• Adoption Services
• Kinship Care
• Grandparent Rights
• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
• Home Based Parenting Education

• Homebuyer/Home Purchase Counseling
• Youth Agricultural Programs
• Stepfamily/Blended Family Support Groups
• Nutrition Education
• Personal Financial Counseling
• Public Awareness/Education
• Food Production Support Services
• Home Management Instruction
• Parenting Skills Classes
• Relationship Workshops
• Water Resources Conservation

Free virtual and in-person parenting, couple and stepfamily courses offered as part of Healthy Relationships Utah, which is part of USU extension.  For more details about Healthy Relationships Utah, please visit https://extension.usu.edu/hru/.

• Parenting Skills Classes
• Stepfamily/Blended Family Support Groups
• Anger Management
• Child Guidance
• Separation/Divorce Support Groups

• Crisis Nurseries/Child Care
• Child Care Volunteer Opportunities
• Children's In Home Respite Care
• Parenting Skills Classes
• Transitional Housing/Shelter
• Stepfamily/Blended Family Support Groups
• Child Abuse Counseling
• Home Based Parenting Education
• Anger Management
• General Counseling Services

M-Sat 9-5, West Valley 24/7.
50% State funding

Family Support Centers located throughout Utah

Susan M. Dezell, LCSW
Insight-oriented, Supportive, Psyc Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-focused, Dialectical Behaviorial Therapy, Parent Child Interaction Training, Play Therapy, Sand Tray Therapy, Psycho-education and Parent Management training. Specializes in Depression, Anxiety, Attachment, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Family and Couples, Step-family and Adoption Issues.

Bonnie Peters, MSW, LCSW
Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Trauma-focused. Specializes in Depression, Anxiety, Attachment, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Oppositional Defiant/Conduct Disorder, Abuse/Neglect, Domestic Violence and Adoption.

• Parent Support Groups
• Special Education
• Specialized Information and Referral

• Drop In Centers
• Legal Counseling
• Thanksgiving Meals
• Wellness Programs
• LGBTQ2+ Community Centers
• In Person Crisis Intervention
• Holiday Meal Preparation/Serving Volunteer Opportunities
• Counseling/Information Support Volunteer Opportunities
• LGBTQ2+ Advocacy Groups
• Event Coordination Volunteer Opportunities
• LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
• Court Ordered Community Service Sites
• Aging/Older Adult Support Groups
• Youth/Student Support Groups

Rally women to come together in their own neighborhoods and help each other through this thing called motherhood, one gathering at a time. A short-term small group for topic-based discussion option as well.
A Christian nonprofit.

• Parenting Skills Classes
• Fundraising Volunteer Opportunities
• Court Ordered Community Service Sites
• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
• Clerical Volunteer Opportunities
• Foster Parent/Family Recruitment

Extends support and understanding to mothers of twins or more, from those who have experienced life with multiple birth children.

Provides support and education for parents, families, and friends of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual people. Peer support by others who have worked through acceptance problems.

• Water Resources Conservation
• Youth Enrichment Programs
• Home Management Instruction
• Food Production Support Services
• Food Safety Education
• Public Awareness/Education
• Relationship Workshops
• Nutrition Education
• Financial Literacy Training
• Parenting Skills Classes
• Gardening/Landscaping Instruction
• Stepfamily/Blended Family Support Groups

Free virtual and in-person parenting, couple and stepfamily courses offered as part of Healthy Relationships Utah, which is part of USU extension.  For more details about Healthy Relationships Utah, please visit https://extension.usu.edu/hru/.

• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
• Foster Parent/Family Recruitment

A non-profit organization that finds, trains, and supports Utah families who are willing and able to provide a nurturing home for children who have been neglected or abused. Offering foster parent/ family recruitment and adoption/ foster/ kinship care support groups. There are seven offices located in five regions that operate under a contract with the Utah Division of Child & Family Services (DCFS).COVID-19 UPDATE: Following all CDC and State guidelines; many offices are operating remotely, and classes/groups are held via Zoom.

• Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

Provides child abuse prevention and parenting classes, a Resource Lending Library, and supports parents and guardians as they strive to provide a healthy, happy environment for their children. Related volunteer opportunities.

COVID-19 UPDATE: Temperature and hand check will be done, along with recent background history asked as far as who/what/where children and parents have been. If there has been exposure, no accommodations can be made, but help with options offered.

• Disability Related Parenting Programs
• Parenting Skills Classes
• Parent Support Groups
• Crisis Nurseries/Child Care
• Child Abuse Prevention
• Child Care Volunteer Opportunities

Provides educational material to the public in areas of family and consumer science, horticulture, agriculture, 4-H youth programs, community Development, and water quality.COVID-19 UPDATE: Following all CDC and state guidelines.

• Water Resources Conservation
• Nutrition Education
• Public Awareness/Education
• Food Production Support Services
• Stepfamily/Blended Family Support Groups
• Youth Agricultural Programs
• Home Management Instruction
• Family Life Education
• Relationship Workshops

Free virtual and in-person parenting, couple and stepfamily courses offered as part of Healthy Relationships Utah, which is part of USU extension.  For more details about Healthy Relationships Utah, please visit https://extension.usu.edu/hru/.

• Stepfamily/Blended Family Support Groups
• Nutrition Education
• Relationship Workshops
• Gardening/Landscaping Instruction
• Youth Agricultural Programs
• Parenting Skills Classes

Free virtual and in-person parenting, couple and stepfamily courses offered as part of Healthy Relationships Utah, which is part of USU extension.  For more details about Healthy Relationships Utah, please visit https://extension.usu.edu/hru/.

• Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
• Foster Parent/Family Recruitment

• Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
• Foster Parent/Family Recruitment

• Weight Related Support Groups
• Emotional Issues Support Groups
• Workaholics Support Groups
• Codependents Support Groups
• Debt/Overspending Support Groups
• Sexual/Love Addiction Support Groups
• Smoking Addiction Support Groups
• Adult Children of Alcoholics Support Groups
• Families/Friends of Individuals With an Alcohol Use Disorder Support Groups

Provides a range of counseling and education services to the community and provides a training environment for master's degree students. COVID-19 UPDATE: Following all CDC and State guidelines. Most services are being offered via telehealth as in-person services are being reduced. Please call for additional information or to schedule or reschedule an appointment.

Services Include:

• Mental Health Services
  • Marriage and Family Therapy
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Child/Pediatric Psychology
  • Sexual and Gender Support Services
  • Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling
• Speech and Hearing Services
  • Cochlear Implants
  • Hearing and Balance
  • Pediatric Audiology
  • Speech and Balance
• Developmental Assessment and Treatment
  • Behavior Support Services
  • Integrated Evaluations for Autism, ADHD, etc.
  • Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing
• Educational Program
  • ASSERT Autism Program
  • Up to 3/ABC Classroom
  • Aggies Elevated Classroom
  • Housing and Financial Counseling

Provides support and assistance to members in all branches of the military and their families, including active duty, retired, guard and reserve units deployed, and Department of Defense (DoD) employees.

• Women's Support Groups
• Public Awareness/Education
• General Counseling Services
• Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Treatment
• Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups

• LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
• LGBTQ2+ Advocacy Groups
• Mentoring Services Volunteer Opportunities

Offers family caregivers help with resources, skills, education, and support to care for those who suffer from memory loss, and other physical disabilities.

• Parent Support Groups
• Disability Related Parenting Programs
• Mental Health Related Support Groups
• Health/Disability Related Support Groups
• Internet Support Groups

Support Groups also in Salt Lake, Clearfield, Hill Air Force Base

Lindsay Bartholomew, Director
Chrissy Young, Asst. Director
Kristen McHenry, Shannon Luckart, Program Assistants

Provides a safe space where LGBT individuals, as well as those questioning their orientation, can associate with like individuals, ask questions, and know that they are not alone.

Provides a social and support group for crossdressers, transgendered individuals, their personal friends, family, and significant other.

Supports mothers who are self-motivated to constantly seek improvement through association with other strong and like-minded women. Strengthen and Educate Families Monthly training,and service projects geared toward whole family participation. Networking occurs to inform members on social action and political issues.

• Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups
• Health/Disability Related Support Groups
• Stroke Rehabilitation

Antonietta A. Russo, Ph.D.
Approaches Used:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Biofeedback

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services.

• Domestic Violence Support Groups
• Mental Health Related Support Groups
• Women's Support Groups
• General Counseling Services
• Substance Use Disorder Counseling

Services for youth and their families in the Greater Salt Lake area including shelter care for runaway and homeless youth from birth to age 18, counseling and substance abuse services, after school programming, parenting skills, LGBTQ support groups, and 24/7 crisis response. Includes Evidence-based program models for prevention including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Related volunteer opportunities available, and services offered in Spanish, and via telehealth. COVID-19 UPDATE: All counseling appointments have been moved to telehealth. No walk-in's for any appointments. The Juvenile Receiving Centers in Salt Lake City and West Jordan are still open, and online prevention workshops will start soon. Website is updated daily; please check for information before calling.

• Alcohol Use Disorder Support Groups
• Drug Use Disorder Support Groups
• Adolescent/Youth Counseling
• Teaching/Instruction Volunteer Opportunities
• Holiday Gift/Toy Distribution Volunteer Opportunities
• LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
• Youth Shelters
• Parenting Skills Classes
• Youth Enrichment Programs
• Runaway/Homeless Youth Helplines
• Substance Use Disorder Counseling
• Family Counseling

• Family Support Centers/Outreach
• Youth Violence Prevention
• Parenting Skills Classes
• Youth/Student Support Groups

• Dance Instruction
• Tutoring Services
• Physical Fitness
• Arts and Crafts Instruction
• Youth Enrichment Programs
• Parent Support Groups
• Summer Camps
• Gardening/Landscaping Instruction
• Music Instruction
• Cooking Classes
• Team Sports/Leagues

• Guardianship Assistance
• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
• Kinship Care

• LGBTQ2+ Support Groups

• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
• Foster Parent/Family Recruitment

• Wellness Programs
• Stepfamily/Blended Family Support Groups
• Nutrition Education
• Youth Agricultural Programs
• Water Resources Conservation
• Food Production Support Services
• Home Management Instruction
• Relationship Workshops
• Public Awareness/Education
• Parenting Skills Classes

Free virtual and in-person parenting, couple and stepfamily courses offered as part of Healthy Relationships Utah, which is part of USU extension.  For more details about Healthy Relationships Utah, please visit https://extension.usu.edu/hru/.

• Children's Out of Home Respite Care
• Home Based Parenting Education
• Parenting Skills Classes
• Crisis Nurseries/Child Care
• General Counseling Services
• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

• LGBTQ2+ Advocacy Groups

Provides therapy for individuals who have gone through trauma, use Trust Based Relational Intervention. Provides parenting support for parents of traumatized, adopted, and hard to manage children.

• Parenting Skills Classes
• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
• General Counseling Services

Provides a family and youth resource center for LGBTQ youth in the community. Provides advocacy, education, family workshops, referrals, mentoring programs, and free or reduced cost therapeutic counseling.

Services Include:

• Gender Affirming Therapy
• LGBTQ Support Groups
• LGBTQ Advocacy Groups
• LGBTQ Community Centers

• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

Provides therapy for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. Offices located in Ephraim, Richfield, Payson, and Cedar City. All appointments are made through the Ephraim office. Telehealth offered.

• General Counseling Services
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
• Family Counseling
• Conjoint Counseling
• Adolescent/Youth Counseling
• Women's Support Groups
• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
• Parent Support Groups
• Play Therapy

• Ethnic Advocacy Groups
• Literacy Volunteer Opportunities
• Interpretation/Translation Volunteer Opportunities
• Early Head Start
• English as a Second Language
• Diversity Awareness Training
• Dating Violence Prevention
• Youth Literacy Programs
• Stepfamily/Blended Family Support Groups
• Head Start

• Early Head Start
• Dating Violence Prevention
• Head Start
• Youth Literacy Programs
• Stepfamily/Blended Family Support Groups
• Literacy Volunteer Opportunities
• Interpretation/Translation Volunteer Opportunities

• English as a Second Language
• Literacy Volunteer Opportunities
• Diversity Awareness Training
• Stepfamily/Blended Family Support Groups
• Dating Violence Prevention
• Early Head Start
• Youth Literacy Programs
• Interpretation/Translation Volunteer Opportunities
• Ethnic Advocacy Groups
• Head Start

Provides counseling and therapy for substance abuse, men's and women's domestic violence support groups, mental health support groups, and general therapy.COVID-19 UPDATE: Following all CDC and state guidelines. Telehealth options available.

• General Counseling Services
• Mental Health Related Support Groups
• Domestic Violence Support Groups
• Women's Support Groups
• Substance Use Disorder Counseling

• Chronic Disease Self Management Programs
• Emergency Room Care
• Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups
• Hospitals
• Disease/Disability Information
• Safe Havens for Abandoned Newborns
• Psychiatric Inpatient Units
• Health/Disability Related Support Groups

Bryce L. Ferguson, MD (Pulmonary Clinic, Meds/Peds)

• Autism Therapy
• LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
• Parent Support Groups
• General Counseling Services
• Tutoring Services
• Developmental Assessment
• Parenting Skills Classes

• Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Treatment
• Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups

• General Counseling Services
• Sexual/Love Addiction Support Groups
• Sexual/Love Addiction Counseling
• Youth/Student Support Groups

• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
• Infertility Support Groups
• Specialized Information and Referral

• Parent Support Groups
• Social Skills Training
• General Counseling Services
• Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Treatment

• Parent Support Groups
• Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Treatment
• General Counseling Services
• Social Skills Training

Provides a family and youth resource center for LGBTQ youth in the community. Provides advocacy, education, family workshops, referrals, mentoring programs, and free or reduced cost therapeutic counseling.

Services Include:

• Gender Affirming Therapy
• LGBTQ Support Groups
• LGBTQ Advocacy Groups
• LGBTQ Community Centers

• Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Treatment
• Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups

Provides a family and youth resource center for LGBTQ youth in the community. Provides advocacy, education, family workshops, referrals, mentoring programs, and free or reduced cost therapeutic counseling.

Services Include:

• Gender Affirming Therapy
• LGBTQ Support Groups
• LGBTQ Advocacy Groups
• LGBTQ Community Centers

• Conjoint Counseling
• Family Counseling
• Adolescent/Youth Counseling
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
• Play Therapy
• Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
• Women's Support Groups
• Parent Support Groups

• Tutoring Services
• Developmental Assessment
• Autism Therapy
• Parenting Skills Classes
• LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
• Parent Support Groups
• General Counseling Services

• Tutoring Services
• Developmental Assessment
• Autism Therapy
• Parenting Skills Classes
• LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
• Parent Support Groups
• General Counseling Services

Provides a support group for mothers including breastfeeding support and playgroups.

• Parent Support Groups
• Children's Play Groups
• Breastfeeding Support Programs
• Parent/Child Activity Groups

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Accessibility Information
Specialized Information and Referral
Support Groups

The mission of Recovery International is to use the cognitive-behavioral, peer-to-peer, self-help training system developed by Abraham Low, MD, to help individuals gain skills to lead more peaceful and productive lives.

Online Resources Include:

• Local meeting locator

Christian non-profit organization. Started as a group for mothers of preschoolers. Now provides local and online support groups for moms of children with children of all ages.