Support Groups

Our support groups have been the lifeblood of the Schizophrenia Fellowship since its creation in 1985. For nearly 25 years volunteers have lead groups that currently number over 40 across both rural and metropolitan areas of New South Wales, our support groups are for everyone: people with a mental illness, relatives, friends, partners, health professionals and interested members of the public.

While our organisation's name is the Schizophrenia Fellowship, we provide services and support for everyone with a mental illness.

Support groups are a group of people that get together and share experiences, problems, solutions, ideas & friendship. Some support groups are for carers only (a carer is somebody that has a loved one or friend with a mental illness) while other groups are open to everyone.

The groups aren’t run by doctors but volunteers who have experienced mental illness or it has impacted on their life in some way in some way. Every group makes new comers welcome.

Click here to download a list of all current support group meeting times, dates, locations and contact numbers. (PDF)