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Other Atlanta Support Groups:
 
R.O.C.K.
(Raising Our Celiac Kids)
Meetings are in the Cobb County area. This group has a membership of over 100 families The R.O.C.K. group does not have a set meeting schedule. To find out when the meetings will be held and other details,email Susan Wagner, President of the Atlanta Chapter of R.O.C.K. at SWagner@dixon-hughes.com

Atlanta Celiac Meetup Group - Meetup.com
This is a group of celiacs in the Atlanta area that meets once a month on the 2nd Thursday at 7pm. They go to dinner and trade information. No formal meeting is held. The group meets at a restaurant in the metro Atlanta area. Contact Tiffany to suggest a restaurant to meet at. To join this group, go to the website listed below and join. The website will give the details. The group is $5.00 per year to join. This goes to cover the cost of the website.You have to be a member to get the details of where the meeting is going to be. It is a good group to meet with. There is no formal meeting, just going to dinner and having discussions with the others who share the same difficulties you have when eating out. The number of people at a meeting ranges from 6 to 50.

To sign up go to their website, http://www.meetup.com/atlantagfdinnerclub/

The files area of the Meetup group website has a file with a list of restaurants in the Atlanta area with gluten free menus, along with a file containing a number of the GF menus.

 
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National Support Groups:

Celiac Disease Foundation
www.celiac.org

818-990-2354

Celiac Sprue Association
www.csaceliacs.org

1-877-272-4272

Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG) of North America
www.gluten.net

253-833-6652

National Foundation of Celiac Awareness
www.celiaccentral.org

215-325-1306

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Online Support Groups- Celiac Internet Forums:
Celiac Internet Forums

Forums are message boards for a particular topic, there are a number of forums for celiacs. A forum can have single or multiple message areas (folders or topic areas). A message and the responses to it are called a thread. Most forums have files that can be downloaded. The celiac forums cover many topics, but almost always have discussions about food, symptoms, recipes,and restaurant menus. You will often discussions on areas of being a celiac you never thought about.

To post a message or inquiry, you have to join that forum. Most of the forums will allow you to see posts, download files or perform searches without joining, some require you to join to do these things. If you join, a copy of all messages posted will usually be emailed to you, however not having those emails sent is usually an option. Each forum has it’s strengths, weaknesses and quirks, find the one(s) that suit your needs.

Most of these forums are like having a discussion about being a celiac with your friends, only everybody is a celiac. You will quickly learn that while every celiac is unique, the challenges we face are not unique. It is particularly good to log on, when the challenges of being a celiac in a non-celiac world have gotten you down.

Silly Yaks Internet Forum
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SillyYaks/

You have to join Yahoo Groups and the Silly Yaks forum to see/post messsages or download files. There is no cost to do so. Once you have joined Yahoo Groups, you will need to send a short message to the forum moderator to join the Silly Yaks forum. It is easy to do. All the messages are in a single message area.

Most unique download file - Gluten Free menu info on 213 restaurant chains.

Delphi Celiac Internet Forum
http://forums.delphiforums.com/celiac

You do not have to join to see messsages or download files. You do have to join to post messages. There are a dozen folders or message areas.

Most unique download file(s) - Product lists of mainstream gluten free products.

Celiac Listserv
http://listserv.icors.org/archives/celiac.html

This is the grand daddy of celiac forums. You do not have to join to view or search. You do have to join to post messages. There is no cost to join. When you post a message or request, answers will be sent to your email address.You are expected to summarize and post a summary.

The information that gets presented and the questions that get asked cover every topic a celiac can think of and many you would not have thought of. If it is happening in the celiac world it ends up on this web site. It is easy to search the archives of this site to find if the answer to your question is already available.

Glutenfree Forum
http://www.glutenfreeforum.com

This forum is part of the www.celiac.com website. You do not have to join to view or search. You do have to join to post messages.There are a number of different folders or message areas. There is also a lot of information on the www.celiac.com website.

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