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📢 Support Group Break (Jan 15 - 21)
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If you don't know what a Support Group break is, click the spoiler below. ⤵
What is a Support Group break?
Roughly three times a year, we have a week (or two) where we take a break from running group chats.
These breaks allow staff, volunteers, and you guys to take a breather. If you use Support Groups often, breaks are a good opportunity to try new services and expand your support network.
When we can, we also use these periods to review community feedback, reflect on how things are going in the community, and look what we might want to work on next.
When are they?
Typically, there is a break around January, May, and September.
Roughly three times a year, we have a week (or two) where we take a break from running group chats.
These breaks allow staff, volunteers, and you guys to take a breather. If you use Support Groups often, breaks are a good opportunity to try new services and expand your support network.
When we can, we also use these periods to review community feedback, reflect on how things are going in the community, and look what we might want to work on next.
When are they?
Typically, there is a break around January, May, and September.
When is the next break?
The next break will be from Monday 15th January - Sunday 21st January. This break will include support groups and Friday chat threads. The usual Support Group schedule will resume as normal on Monday 22nd.
We will however continue to run Thursday Support Circle on Thursday 18th January. You can read more about these sessions here.
A lot of you know the staff team has been working on internal capacity and resources, and that will continue to be our focus during this chat break.
We won't be running a community quiz this time round due to our last quiz being run not so long ago over the holidays.
Where can I go instead?
If you'd like some quick, live support while Support Groups aren't running, feel free to head over to our one-to-one services. You can get in touch in three ways - phone, webchat and email. Call for free on 0808 808 4994, from Monday - Wednesday at 4pm-midnight. Our 1-1 webchat is open Monday - Friday, 4pm-11pm. Emails will be responded to within 24 hours, Monday - Friday. The boards will also be open as normal.
If you're at breaking point, our Crisis Messenger is also open as usual. Text THEMIX to 85258. You can also head to this thread to find more crisis options if you need urgent support.
If you want somewhere like General Chat, you can check out: General Chat, Chit Chat or head over to the
Positivity Corner.
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Good question Chloe! We will be pausing Friday chat threads that week too to ensure things are fair in giving all mods that time off.
We will however continue to run our Support Circle for Survivors on Thursday 18th January during chat break week.
Usual schedule resumes Monday 22nd.
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