Starting January 1st, New Directions will no longer be a registered non-profit. Meetings will continue on Zoom but in-person meetings will not.
This website may be removed in the near future as we transition to a new phase.
Thanks to everyone who supported New Directions over the prior 4 decades. For now, the rest of the content on this site will remain available but will no longer be updated.
READ NEW INFO BELOW – Ruth Z Deming, MGPGP, Founder/Director, New Directions, March 29, 2022
Our Hatboro PO Box 181 is no longer in service.
THANK YOU AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE !
Your premier support group in the Philadelphia area for people with Depression, Bipolar Disorder and their Loved Ones. Email us at ruthdeming@comcast.net.
***EVENING MEETINGS AT ABINGTON PREZ are cancelled until further notice. If interested in ZOOMING, email ruthdeming@comcast.net.
***DAYTIME MEETINGS AT WILLOW GROVE GIANT are on hold for now. Contact EVE MASLIN at <eve.maslin@gmail.com>
SUICIDE HOTLINE – Call 988
SUICIDE HOTLINE – Call 988
NOTE: FROM NAMI BUCKS COUNTY. For questions, contact the appropriate NAMI representative.
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NEW: Click to download The Compass, Spring 2019
NOTE: We publish new work – poems or opinions – under Online Kaleidoscope. If interested, please email Compass123@comcast.net
SEE SCHEDULE BELOW …
Team Leaders include: Ada Moss Fleisher, Helen Kirschner, Fontaine Caldwell. Carole and Gregory Hodges run our Loved Ones’ Group. Photo by Greg Hodges, lower right. Ruth Z Deming, MGPGP, founder/director, in her “Ask me Why I have 3 kidneys T-shirt.” Taking lithium for 16 yrs ruined her kidneys and she had a transplant. Read her Lithium post. For other famous people w/mood disorders click here.
Candid blog of Ruth Z Deming, MGPGP, click here.
2 0 2 2 Meetings and Events
. . . M A Y Vaccinate Vaccinate Vaccinate
WE NO LONGER MEET IN PERSON at the Willow Grove Giant.
In the pandemic, wear a mask, stay 6 feet at least from others, wash your hands – and mail people greeting cards. They love it!
Get to know your neighbors.
Montgomery County, PA, continues to be at HIGH RISK for Covid. Wear masks if going out. Do not take chances. Check CNN News.
If you are on the medication lithium, special procedures are warranted. Click here for more info.
MEETINGS and EVENTS
Due to outbreak of Covid-19, all meetings and events have been canceled until further notice, wrote Pastor Kirby Lawrence of Abington Presbyterian.
Stay in touch with friends and loved ones via phone or email. It is not your imagination our minds get duller !
Wear a mask! AND wash hands when you re-enter your home.
Again, wash your hands, for 20 seconds.
Thanks Helen Kirschner, and Eve Maslin, heads of our Daytime Meeting, for events by the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Contact RuthDeming@comcast.net for Evening Meetings. ZOOM with us.
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For more frequent meetings, see NAMI BUCKS COUNTY
Click here.
THE POWER PROGRAM for education. Contact Ms. Teyné Crum-Obasuyi, M.A
Montgomery County Community College
Power Program Community Liaison & Adjunct Facilitator
215-461-1151
tcrumobasuyi@mc3.edu
WHAT IS THE POWER PROGRAM? Click here.
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