Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group

Our Group Brochure. Please share it with others to help them know about the group. See also my main ADHD Support Groups page.

NOTICE:

Our last meeting was March 3rd, 2020.

But due to the Coronavirus and to protect the group members and myself, sadly upcoming meetings of the Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group meeting have been cancelled until futher notice.

Ironically the last meeting the members gave me a great list of topics for upcoming meetings:(

I started this group 17 years ago. I hope to restart it again when it’s safe for our members and myself.

In the meantime, you can check our list of notes from past Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group meeting at Adult ADHD Issues.

There are no online meetings.

If you want more free information on adult ADHD, I have 180 pages on this website and a total of 600+ pages on adult ADHD if you include my first blog Adult ADD Strengths and my second one BC ADHD. I self medicate my ADHD with information and learning:)

I’ve also been doing paid one on one ADHD coaching over the phone since 2003 for my fellow ADHD adults on 6 continents and offer a free sample session of ADHD coaching on one specific goal or problem.

There are also ADHD Facebook groups you can join, CHADD & Additude Magazine have online forums, webinars and lots of content.

On Twitter you can use the hashtag #AskADHD to ask questions about ADHD.

Our Purpose

Meeting Info

When’s the next Meeting?

Meeting Location & Map

Here’s some Vancouver ADHD related resources links

Check out the ADD Support Vancouver Group, (formerly CHADD Vancouver) that focus on parents of children with ADHD and adults with ADHD. Our group just focuses on Adults.

Metro Vancouver, BC Area ADHD Related Support Groups and Organizations

List of People known to Diagnose/Treat ADHD in Metro Vancouver that I have been sending out for 17 years. Thousands of times.

Very rare case of some BC politicians actually keeping their election promise to people with ADHD in BC. And one politician breaking hers.

If you want to be on the e-mail reminder list for the meetings of the only 2 ADHD support groups in BC, the Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group and the ADD Support Vancouver Group, please email me and I’ll add you to the list.

Past Adult ADHD Notes of our group meetings, Adult ADHD Issues.

If you take notes at the meetings and email me them, I’ll post them their for others to benefit from. Taking notes helps you learn too eh?

Notice:

The Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group used to be affiliated with CHADD Vancouver and CHADD Canada.

The national organization of CHADD Canada has dissolved.

As a result, CHADD Vancouver Chapter has renamed itself. It is now called the ADD Vancouver Support Group.

It will continue to provide regular support and information meetings to those living with or wanting to know more about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD or ADHD) and focus on families with ADHD. This will in no way affect or change the content, presentations or type of support offered at the meetings

This is a non-profit support group with no charitable status.

The Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group that I founded in 2003 will continue on as The Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group.

It will continue to provide regular support and information meetings to those living with or wanting to know more about adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

This will in no way affect or change the content, presentations or type of support offered at our Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group meetings.

It is a non profit support group with no charitable status.

Our Purpose

The non-profit Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group was started by Pete Quily who is an Adult ADHD Coach who has ADHD in 2003.

We have ADHD members from Whistler to Delta to Mission. We’re the only Adult ADHD Support Group in BC

ADHD rarely travels alone. Comorbidity, or coexisting conditions, is the norm for ADHD, not the exception. For links to those groups, please visit Vancouver, BC Area ADD Related Non-Profit Support Groups & Other Organizations

5% of the adult population has ADHD. Approximately 90% of adults with ADHD are undiagnosed and untreated. Dr. Russell Barkley, Monitor on Psychology March 2012, page 70. Untreated ADHD can lead to major negative consequences in life.

This group is specifically oriented to deal with adult ADHD issues and concerns.

It is a peer support group and a forum where information about adult ADD can be exchanged.

It’s a place where you can:

Meet other adults with ADHD and share support and encouragement.
Share and receive tactics and strategies on coping with ADHD patterns and habits.
Get current information on ADHD.
Share your strengths, experiences and successes with others. See the 151 Positive Characteristics of people with Attention Deficit Disorder (Which ones do you have?)

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Meeting Info

The meetings will usually be a combination of focus on one topic relating to ADHD in adults and peer support.

Confidentiality is very important; so anything that’s being said during the meeting has to stay between the members. That way people will feel comfortable in sharing their true thoughts and feelings. Please join us. I’ll always post the day and topic of the next meeting on this page.

If you want to be on the mailing list of the meetings of the Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group and ADD Vancouver Support Group, (formerly CHADD Vancouver) please email me with the subject line “Add me to the ADD meeting announcements list” and I’ll add you to the list.

Thanks

Pete

Pete Quily
Adult ADHD Coach
Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group Leader

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Next Meeting

Please don’t wear perfume or cologne to the meetings, some of our members are chemically sensitive.

Yes this means you too. Not just other people:)

Our last meeting was March 3rd, 2020.

But due to the Coronavirus and to protect the group members and myself, sadly upcoming meetings of the Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group meeting have been cancelled until futher notice.

Ironically the last meeting the members gave me a great list of topics for upcoming meetings:(

If you have notes from past meetings please email me them and I’ll post them for others to learn from.

UPDATE August 18 2021.

There is no estimated time for new meetings, unlike our PHO, I believe the vast majority of epidemiologists who know that Covid Is Airborne.

So because of that plus the Delta variant, and likely new variants, and because the negligence of our public health officials and politicians doing Covid Minimal vs Covid Zero, there likely won’t be support group meeting for a least a year or two until it’s safe for participants and for me.

No online support group meetings.

Want to be on the reminder list when both ADHD Support Groups start up again?

If you want to be on the e-mail reminder list for when it is safe to meet in person again when the aerosol and droplet spread airborne pandemic is over, the meetings of the only 2 ADHD support groups in BC, the Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group and the ADD Support Vancouver Group, please email me and I’ll add you to the list.

For more info on Adult ADHD here are some options:

My 160+ page site here at ADDCoach4u.com with links to hundreds of outsite articles.

My first blog Adult ADD Strengths

My second blog BC ADHD

My list of some books on ADHD

Facebook ADHD Groups

Youtube ADHD Channels

ADHD Podcasts

Be wise, Namaste is safer than lets bump our cough and sneeze recepticle elbows.

And if Namaste doesn’t work for you, you can change it to peace, shalom, nice to meet you, any positive words. Namaste is much safer than fist bumps via @rmrathod

Stay safe and take proper Health Canada/CDC/ WHO precautions to protect yourself, your family and your community especially those at higher risk for death from the Coronavirus. This is not the flu.

Thanks

Pete Quily Adult ADHD coach.

If you have any questions please contact me

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Meeting Location and Map

Our meetings take place in the basement at Raven Song Community Health Centre. It’s at 2450 Ontario Street, Vancouver. 2 blocks west of Main St, and 1/2 a block north of Broadway. It has free parking in front, and the 99 B line stops there as well as the #3 main bus, #9, #8, and #19. It can fit 60 people.

We meet on the 1st Tuesday of the month. The ADD Vancouver Support Group, (formerly CHADD Vancouver) meetings are on the 3rd Tuesdays of the most month, check their website for their latest schedule.

Click on the directions on the map to zoom in and get directions by bus, car, bicycle or walking.

Victoria School Board Passed Our #IEPsForADHD Resolution!

Thanks to Ryan Painter and Sandra Goth for helping to make this happen. Ryan’s Facebook post on it.

Recommended Motion:

That the Board of Education of School District No. 61 (Greater Victoria) direct the Board Chair to write a letter to the Minister of Education requesting a timeline on when the Minister will add
ADHD as a stand-alone designation in special education in order to streamline receiving accommodations and IEPs.

Video of Ryan’s motion starts off with Christie Duncan at 27.08 with the education committee report on the motion on IEPsForADHD

2nd part of it is on another video

IEPs For ADHD 2018 Election Results And More

See which of your local BC school trustees candidates that supported ADHD students and commited to ask BCNDP education minister Rob Fleming when he’ll keep his promise for #IEPsForADHD were elected.

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Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group