Support Groups

This group meets the third Monday of every month at 6pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church hall (344 Joliet Street, LaSalle).

Contact Joanne Milby at (815) 228-1858 for more information. 

This group is here for families who have lost a child through death.

This group meets the fourth Thursday of each month from 6:30pm – 8:30pm at Zion Church in Peru, located at 1521 6th Street. Please enter through the north door at the back of the church. 

Contact Rita Studzinski, (815) 223-7663

This free group is held the first Tuesday of each month from 3pm – 4pm in the 2nd Floor conference room at the St. Margaret’s Diabetes Center located at 310 Walnut Drive in Peru (adjacent to the Illinois Valley YMCA) at the corner of 15th Street and Walnut Drive.

2023 FREE Diabetes Support Group Schedule:

February 7: Resolutions/Goals

March 7: Build a Healthy Plate

April 4: Low Impact Exercises

May 2: Diabetes Trivia

June 6: Rethink Your Drink

July 11: Tai Chi (please note this is a week later due to the Independence Day holiday)

August 1: Carb Counting & Nutrition

September 5: Heart Health

October 3: Diabetes Jeopardy

November 7: Diabetes Sick Day Management

For more information, call our Diabetes Centers at (815) 780-3309 (Spring Valley) or (815) 780-3326 (Peru).

For more diabetes resources or to learn more about our Diabetes Resources Team and other diabetes education opportunities, click here.

Open to people with epilepsy, caregivers, family, friends and community members

While this group usually meets in-person, some of these meetings are ZOOM-only meetings so please be sure to check our event calendar. 

In-person meetings are usually held the second Thursday of the month at 6pm, Lighted Way building, 641 6^th Street, LaSalle.

Questions? Contact Erika Fleck, Vice President of Government Affairs & Advocacy at the Epilepsy Advocacy Network at (815) 414-8655 or erika@epilepsyadvocacynetwork.org

Learn more about the Epilepsy Advocacy Network. 

For other epilepsy support groups in North-Central Illinois (running through the Epilepsy Advocacy Network in 2022), click here.

Grief Support Group is offered the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at 6pm.

This group meets at St. Margaret’s Health – Peru’s 6th Street Building Conference Room (1305 6th Street, Peru). Parking is best in the lot off 7th Street – enter through the west side door.

Contact Joan Fernandez at joan.fernandez@ivch.org or call (815) 780-4618 for more information.

Open to anyone who has any type of cancer.

As of February 2023, this group now meets the second Monday of each month from 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm at Zion Church in Peru, 1521 6th Street. Please enter through the north door at the back of the church. 

Contact Joan Fernandez at (815) 780-4618 for more information.

This group meets the first Monday of the month at 1:30pm – 3:30pm at St. Margaret’s Health – Spring Valley’s Presentation Room on the First Floor of the hospital (600 East First Street, Spring Valley). Park in the North Parking Lot and enter on through the Main Entrance on the north side of the hospital. 

This group will meet for lunch at Liberty Restaurant on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 for the Christmas luncheon (Everyone pays for their own).

Contact Sue English at (815) 434-7114 for more information. 

Fourth Wednesday of every month from 5:30pm – 7pm at First Congregational Church in Peru (1431 4^th Street, Peru).

This group will not meet in November or December 2022 due to the holidays. 

This group meets the first and third Monday of each month at 6pm at St. Margaret’s Health – Peru’s 6th Street Conference Room (1305 6th Street, Peru). It is best to park in the lot off 7th Street and enter through the  west side door. 

Contact Joan Fernandez at (815) 780-4618 for more information.

First Thursday of each month at 1pm Conference Room C.

Third Wednesday of every month | 6 p.m.
(location not disclosed for confidentiality purposes)

For more information, please contact Joan Fernandez at (815) 780-4618.