Support Groups:  
Because Siskin Hospital understands the importance of camaraderie and encouragement outside the hospital setting, we host or sponsor support groups designed to address the social, emotional, medical, and legal issues facing community members and their families experiencing many different conditions. Click the link below for a list of current support groups.

Support Group Calendar

To learn how you and your family can be involved in a support group at Siskin Hospital, call 423.634.1200

Peer Counselors:
The Peer Counselor program is a volunteer training program for people who have had physically disabling illness and injury and their family members who want to help Siskin Hospital patients cope with the adversity of and adjustment to similar health conditions.

Prospective peer counselors take part in an eight-hour, four-week training program conducted by the office of Pastoral Care. The training educates participants in problem solving, listening skills, and how to cope with difficult questions about values, religion and depression.

Peer counselors participate in patients’ therapy by request of the rehabilitation team, patient or family and talk with patients and families about problems, issues, and concerns about what life will be like after their recovery. In many ways, peer counselors can be role models for people coming to terms with injuries and illness by providing an example of adjustment and success.

The Peer Counselor program accepts new candidates for training on an ongoing basis. For more information on how you can be a part of this rewarding program, contact Keith Munford at 423.634.1654.

Vocational Rehabilitation:
Vocational rehabilitation at Siskin Hospital is offered as a service to the Chattanooga community for adults with a variety of disabilities. Vocational rehabilitation provides work and independent living skills and is the crucial link between the completion of physical rehabilitation and the full return to a productive, meaningful life in the community and workforce.

Internet Resources:
Chattanooga area:
Chattanooga Parks and Recreation
Chattanooga Area Brain Injury Association
Hosanna House


Sports and Recreation:
Blaze Sports
Disabled Sports USA
National Ability Center
Wheelchair Sports USA
National Sports Center for the Disabled


Government:
DisabilityInfo.gov
National Council on Disability


Advocacy:
Disability Rights Commission
National Organization on Disability


Disability Resources:
Enablelink
Disability Resources