This group offers parents the opportunity to meet and share experiences and information with other parents dealing with this difficult disorder. Each group meets for eight sessions. Guests are brought in to share their expertise when parents request such information. Dinner and child care for children 5 and older are provided. Many of the kids enjoy coming because the focus is not on them - the bipolar child - but on the parents. Kids have the opportunity to socialize with other children, play pool, video games, watch a movie and do crafts.

Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook receives a generous grant from the Jean Paul Ohadi Foundation on an annual basis to offer support groups to parents with children suffering from bipolar disorder.  The grant also allows us to provide specialized mentoring services to children and adolescents dealing with bipolar disorder.

The Jean Paul Ohadi Foundation was established in 1998 in memory of Jean Paul Ohadi.  This young man suffered from bipolar disorder and died at the age of 19  The foundation strives to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder.

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