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Share your story and strategies, talk with others who "get it," and have some laughs at this friendly drop-in group.

It’s not a "moan and groan" group. It's more of an ADHD Salon, with interesting conversation and sometimes chocolate.

So, come join us the third Wednesday of each month. (Parents are welcome, including parents of adults with ADHD. Many ADHD treatment issues are the same across the lifespan, and this is a rare opportunity for you to talk to adults with ADHD about their expeience as children and young adults. But rrimary and high school education issues are not discussed.)

Drop-in group.

Facilitators: Gina P. and Brad P.

THIS IS THE BEST ADULT ADHD DISCUSSION GROUP IN THE WORLD!

For detailed directions and contact information, double click on meeting notice.

You can sign up for reminders through this website (but we can't explain how -- sorry!).

OR, you can sign up for our Yahoogroup: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SiliconValleyCHADD/

A drop-in peer-support group, the last Wednesday of each month.

Learn tools, get support, share humor, and develop strategies for living with AD/HD.

Facilitator: Don Ross, 707-525-0675

Public welcome! Suggestion donation of non-CHADD members, $5

• WHEN: 7-9 p.m., the last Wednesday of each month, except Nov.Dec.
• WHERE: The Quaker Meetinghouse, 1647 Guerneville Road.

From Hwy 101 head west on Steele Lane/Guerneville Road.

Take the first right driveway after Ridley by the stonewall marked Quaker Meeting-house. Look for CHADD sign. Park in the lot, go through gate, and go left to the meeting room.

If you get to Marlow, you have gone too far. You can only enter the driveway to The Quaker Meeting House heading west on Guerneville Road. Over-flow parking take right on Ridley.

"Adult ADHD Success Clinic"

Ongoing drop-in group.

We’re about focus, energy and momentum. We’re about paying attention to the present moment and not allowing fear shrink our lives. If you believe in manifesting the positive and letting go of the negative … come join us. If you’re looking for an ADHD friendly oasis … come join us.

Facilitator: Rick Webster

Kaiser-Permanente - French Campus, 4141 Geary Blvd. (between 5th and 6th Aves)

Conference Room F1 on the 1st Floor. We are in the green building (4141) marked "L".

Parking lot off of 5th Ave or street parking

For detailed directions, click on URL above (http://chaddnorcal.org/schedule/directions/FrenchKaiser.htm)

"Adult ADHD Success Clinic"

Ongoing drop-in group. Meets first and third Mondays (with holidays 1/19, 2/16, and 9/7)

Facilitator: Rick Webster

Kaiser-Permanente - French Campus, 4141 Geary Blvd. (between 5th and 6th Aves)

Conference Room F1 on the 1st Floor. We are in the green building (4141) marked "L".

Parking lot off of 5th Ave or street parking

For detailed directions and contact information, double click on meeting notice.

Ongoing drop-in group. Meets first and third Wednesdays monthly.

Get support!

Discuss issues relating to having lived an undiagnosed life with ADHD. Share successes: Learn strategies and develop skills to cope more successfully by focusing on pertinent topics.

Facilitator: Rick Webster

Location: 710 South Broadway, Walnut Creek, #3B
Kaiser Mental Health, behind Nordstrom
(The building next to Safeway on corner of Mt. Diablo Blvd)

ROOM: Room 2A, 2nd floor (follow signs)

$5 donation suggested of non-CHADD members

For detailed directions and contact information, double click on meeting notice.

Ongoing drop-in group. Meets first and third Wednesdays monthly.

Get support!

Discuss issues relating to having lived an undiagnosed life with ADHD. Share successes: Learn strategies and develop skills to cope more successfully by focusing on pertinent topics. �

Facilitator: Rick Webster

Location: Kaiser Walnut Creek, Room 2A, 2nd floor (follow signs)

For detailed directions and contact information, double click on meeting notice.

Drop-in Peer Support Group for Adults with ADHD

Facilitator: Molly Bloom

Note: The meeting is in the other building on Baker, not the church itself.

For detailed directions and contact information, double click on meeting notice.

Ongoing, drop-in parent group

Meets second Tuesdays (except July and August).

Facilitator: Alicia Solano

location:

Sutter Delta Medical Center
3901 Lone Tree Way
Antioch , CA 94509

We meet in the Edna Fallman Center (in back of the hospital, to the right and across from Emergency; the meeting room is the last door on the right). Park in back lot.

From Concord

Take Highway 4(east) to the "A Street Exit"
Make a right off the freeway onto "A Street"
Follow "A Street", this will turn into Lone Tree Way"
"Sutter Delta Medical Center" is on the left at "3901 Lone Tree Way"
Turn into hospital parking lot and drive around to the right. In the back and across the parking lot from Emergency is the Edna Fallman Center. The meeting room is the last door on the right.

From Byron, Brentwood, or Oakley

Take Highway 4(north) to the "A Street Exit"
Take the "A Street" Exit and turn left onto "A Street"
"Sutter Delta Medical Center" is on the right at "3901 Lone Tree Way"
Turn into hospital parking lot and drive around to the right. In the back and across the parking lot from Emergency is the Edna Fallman Center. The meeting room is the last door on the right.

Directions, map and floorplan also available from Sutter Delta Medical Center's website

Parent to Parent: Family Training on AD/HD

Sponsored by CHADD of Northern California

A Seven-Session Interactive and Educational Program for
Adults and Parents of
Children and Adolescents with AD/HD

What: This workshop series will provide educational information and support for families who are dealing with AD/HD and learning to navigate the challenges of AD/HD across the lifespan.

This unique program includes seven two-hour interactive (group participation) sessions that will cover the following topics:

Overview of AD/HD
Assessment to Multi-Modal Treatment
Impact of AD/HD on the Family & Creating Developmentally Age Appropriate Positive Behavior Interventions
Developing Parenting Strategies and Interventions That Strengthen Family Relationships
What Do I Do when My Child is Having Difficulty at School?
Understanding the Federal Laws: An Overview of 504 and IDEA
Working with the Schools: Building an Education Team That Works
AD/HD Across the Life Span & Adults with AD/HD

PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE A COMPREHENSIVE
RESOURCE HANDBOOK!

When: This series starts starts May 12 and continues the following six Tuesdays (March 19, 26, June 2, 9, 16, 23)

Missed sessions are available during a future series

Where: 710 South Broadway, Walnut Creek, #3B
Kaiser Mental Health, behind Nordstrom
(The building next to Safeway on corner of Mt. Diablo Blvd)

Fee: CHADD members - $100; non-CHADD members:$145 (You may specify that $45 of that non-member fee go towards membership.)

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED - contact program coordinators below for application

CONTACT: Judy Marshall/Donna Love
510-352-2103 judymarshall@comcast.net
925-687-4324 Donna Love adhdstrategies@earthlink.net

CHADD Parent Share Group in Marin County - Tiburon

A drop-in group open to all parents, family members & caregivers of children (of all ages) with challenges in self-regulation of attention or focus, activity level, emotions, whether or not formally diagnosed with AD/HD (all types). Family members share resources, concerns, successes, hope and strength. Chidren, including adult children, with AD/HD come in all sorts of packages, but when you hear someone sharing descriptions of behavior or learning problems that you thought only your child did, you realize you truly are not alone. There are others on the same path searching to understand their child's struggles, support their child's strengths, accept what cannot be changed and do their best to determine those programs, schools, interventions, medications, parenting strategies, curriculum that have been shown to make a significant difference in the lives of those with AD/HD (all types).

Usually the last Monday of the month 12:30 - 2:30.
2009 Meeting Dates: January 26, February 23, March 30, April 27, June 1 (Due to Memorial Day on May 25). No meetings end of June and July. Resumes August 31, September 28, October 26, November 30. No meeting December 2009.

Westminster Presbyterian Church Library: 240 Tiburon Blvd., Tiburon, CA (Less than one mile off Hwy. 101)

Group Leaders (CHADD Volunteers):
Holly Seerley, MFT & Parent 415-383-6656
Ellen Nicosia, Parent 415-927-2442
Victoria Vogel, MFT & Parent 415-383-6048

$5 donation requested from non-CHADD members or you can join at the meeting. CHADD members: no charge.

Location: Westminster Presbyterian Church Library, Tiburon

For detailed directions and contact information, double click on meeting notice.

NOTE-- THIS GROUP WILL NOT MEET THIS MONTH DUE TO OUR

SPECIAL EVENT MARKING ADHD AWARENESS WEEK ON SEPT. 16 --

SPEAKERS DR. STEPHEN HINSHAW AND AUTHOR BLAKE TAYLOR

SEE MORE INFORMATION ON THIS CALENDAR, SEPT. 16.

WE'RE BACK -- AT A NEW LOCATION!

The Berkeley/Oakland Adult Support Group, also known as The Action Group will return to regular meetings for 2009. We've switched weeks to the SECOND MONDAYS of the month. Time is the same 7 - 9 PM.

Location has changed:

New Meeting Space! Thanks to Diana Yonkouski and Bay Area Properties, we have a comfy new meeting space in their Berkeley office, on the border of North Oakland. Street parking is plentiful. Star Market is right next door and open until 7 if you need to pick something up before the meeting.

3088 Claremont Avenue, Berkeley 94705

Cross street: The Uplands, it's about midway between Ashby and College.

The Rockridge BART station is not far and AC Transit stops right in front.

THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO THE FALL. THE DATE WILL BE POSTED SOON.

Speaker: Dr. Stephen Hinshaw, leading ADHD researcher,

and author of the new book The Triple Bind: Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today's Pressures

Our girls are at risk, says psychologist and prominent ADHD authority Stephen Hinshaw. Societal expectations, cultural trends, and conflicting messages are creating what he calls “the Triple Bind” for our girls and young women.

That bind is putting more and more girls at risk for aggression, eating disorders, depression, and even suicide. He recently conducted research following girls with ADHD into young adulthood, and he will include in his talk results from that research and the particular way the Triple Bind might affects girls with ADHD.

Fortunately, this nationally respected author and ADHD researcher works in the Bay Area and graciously agreed to come talk with our group.

Hinshaw is chair of the Psychology Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

You can read about his work here: http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/shinshaw.html

And you can read about the book here:http://triplebind.com/

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Our lecture series takes place the first Wednesday in March, April, and June.

Time: 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Location: The Friends Meeting House, 957 Colorado St. Palo Alto (We meet in the large building at the very back of the property.)

Public welcome! $5 donation suggested of non-CHADD members.

LECTURE TOPIC: You and Me and AD/HD: Success Strategies for Couples

Speaker Gina Pera, journalist; mental-health advocate
author of, Is It You, Me, or Adult ADD?
Stopping the Roller Coaster When Someone You Love Has Attention Deficit Disorder

http://www.ADHDRollerCoaster.com
KQED Forum show on Adult ADHD:
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R708271000

If you're in a roller coaster relationship, it's easy to blame your
whiplash on the person sitting next to you in the cart. But what if
it's not "you or me" that is creating these ups and downs? What if
it's ADHD?

We know that unaddressed ADHD symptoms alone can make for a rocky
ride in the areas of finances, co-parenting, running a household, and
intimacy. Less explored is the added burden of living for years in
ignorance about ADHD and the poor coping strategies that typically
develop as a result.

Author and ADHD advocate Gina Pera examines how common poor coping
skills create problems for both partners, but in very different
ways. Then she focuses on a five-step strategy, based on her
interviews with top ADHD experts and moderating ADHD support groups
for eight years:

1. Optimize ADHD education, medication.
2. Adjust attitudes.
3. Learn new skills, habits.
4. Cultivate romance; have some fun!
5. Cool the "Hot Spots."

Her message is a hopeful one: Couples affected by ADHD can let go of
counterproductive coping strategies and create more effective ones.
Then, as ADHD awareness and treatment progresses, couples begin to
think more positively about themselves and each other – and actually
enjoy the ride! •

• Where: Marin county, Corte Madera.
Just off the freeway 101 at Tamalpais Drive/Paradise Drive exit, in
the Corte Madera Town Center mall (west side of freeway).

770 Tamalpais Drive, Suite 201.
Enter south end of mall, look for big striped canopy on the
right, enter lobby and take elevator to second floor.

• Volunteer Coordinator: Beverlee Kell 415-789-9464----------------------------------------------------------

CHADD meetings are free to members and a donation of $5 is
gratefully accepted from non-members. We are an all volunteer
organization.

To join CHADD, join on line at www.chadd.org
There are scholarships available.

For a schedule of all No. CA CHADD meetings and local resources visit:
www.chaddnorcal.org
For reliable information visit:
www.chadd.org
www.help4adhd.org

Disclaimer: CHADD does not endorse products, services, publications,
medications or treatments.

Support group for PARENTS of children diagnosed with AD/HD

Educational Therapist Linda Lawton joins us to talk about how to use summer months to help our children with ADHD build skills and confidence.

We'll also discuss ideas for 2010.

Build supportive relationships, exchange practical information, learn from community experts and enjoy adult-time while we collaborate to solve the challenges of raising kids with AD/HD.

Meetings are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Free to CHADD members. $5 donation suggested for non-members.

Facilitator: Carol Katz, 510-551-6914

We meet in the Claremont neighborhood of Berkeley.

Close to BART (Rockridge Station), the Claremont Avenue freeway exit off Highway 24, and only blocks from where Highway 13 (Ashby Ave) passes through Berkeley.
Near Star Market (open in the evening); cross street The Uplands. Lovely kitchenette, wheelchair accessible other than the bathroom. Lots of free parking.

We generally meet on the last Thursday of the month, with vacation in July and August. Check the calendar for more information.

Network with other parents as we share experiences and listen to speakers on topics related to parenting ADHD children.

Drop-in group; no registration necessary.

Facilitator: JoAnn Matone

Location: Thomas J. Hart Middle School, Pleasanton (library)

For detailed directions and contact information, double click on meeting notice.

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