Support, Advocacy, and Educational Groups & Resources

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Support groups by geographical location

Transplant-related groups with web pages

Alaska Transplant Support Group
American Association of Kidney Patients 
American Coalition of Kidney Patients 
American Diabetes Association
American Heart Association
American Liver Foundation 
American Transplant Association
Asociacion Mexicana Protrasplante Renal, A.C.(Mexico City, Mexico)
Australian Transplant & Dialysis Support Group 
The Biliary Atresia and Liver Transplant Network 
Children's Liver Alliance Inc (Australia) 
Bone Marrow Transplant Support Group
Blood and Marrow Transplant Information Network
Children's Liver Association for Support Services (C.L.A.S.S.) 
COTA: The Children's Organ Transplant Association, Inc. 
The Diane Hebert Foundation
Georgia Association of Kidney Patients
Grief Recovery ONLINE (GROWW)
JobLink(return- to-work program in Georgia - USA)
Johns Hopkins Hospital Pediatric Transplant Parents Association
Kids Kidney Care (Switzerland)
Liver Support Group  (Australia)
Long Distance Love/Friends' Health Connection
The Mercedes Connection: A Liver Transplant Support Group
National Foundation for Transplants
National Kidney Foundation (USA)
National Organ Transplant Foundation
NORD: National Organization for Rare Disorders
Northeastern Pennsylvaia Transplant Support Group Inc.
National Transplant Assistance Fund
The Northern California Organ Transplant Support Group
Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation
PediaHope
Primary Biliary Cirrhosis Organization
Renal Support Group
Second Wind: A National Lung Transplant Patient's Association

Ohio branch of Second Wind

Talking It Over (a paper newsletter)
Tranpals (pen pal group in the UK)
The Transplant Foundation
Transplant Recipients International Organization (TRIO)Chapters on the Web (there are many other chapters not on the Web yet):
TRIO - Akron/Canton (Ohio)
San Francisco Bay Area chapter
TRIO - The Nation's Capital Area Chapter
TRIO New England
TRIO Philadelphia
TRIO - Italy
TRIO - Japan

 

Transplant Recipients Organization of Minnesota (TROM) also, TROM topics (newsletter)
Transplant Support Network
Transplants Living to Care (TLC)
World Children's Transplant Fund

Groups that may help with financial issues

American Kidney Fund
Barbara Anne DeBoer Foundation
Children's Organ Transplant Association
Foundation for Donor & Family Funds Assistance
Gift of Life Trust Fund of South Carolina
Inland Empire Transplant Support Group
MedicalFundraising.org
National Foundation for Transplants
National Transplant Assistance Fund
NORD: National Organization for Rare Disorders
World Children's Transplant Fund

Support groups on the Internet

For chat, please see http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/8082/organtx.html for info on OrganTX and other transplant-related chat opportunities. See our newsgroups page for a listing of transplant newsgroups on the Internet and how to subscribe to them.

Related sites:

American Share Foundation
CODI - Cornucopia of Disability Information
Disability Resources
Emotional Support Guide
The Insulin-Free World Foundation
KidsKare (by, for, and about kids with renal failure)
Online Resources for Diabetics
 
 
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