Las cruces Forum???

Hello , I was wondering how I would go about creating a forum for people in Las Cruces to meet and chat and start a suport group, Does anyone know how to start a forum, thanks Kelly

Do you mean in person or on an online group? If you mean in real life, then I would go about finding a place that is centrally located in your area, so that it's easy to find, etc........decide on how often you want to meet and arrange with a school, church, hospital, etc to hold your meetings there. Then I would make up flyers and give them out to doctor's offices, grocey stores, etc....anywhere there might be folks who would be interested. And I would also ask a couple of friends to help facilitate the meetings so that it doesn't fall onto just your shoulders. We have a local group up here in Albuq and we have several folks who facilitate meetings, plan them etc. We generally average 60 folks or so at the twice monthly meetings but they originally started it in UNM as I understand it back in 2001. We are just a grass roots type of group and we have people who have had different types of surgeries, they all use different surgeons, etc.......so it's a very good group I think We have a structure that we follow and we arrange for speakers at least once a month when we can get them. You might come up for a meeting sometime to get ideas on creating one yourself down there in Las Cruces Good luck, I think it is very much needed down your way Also the Bariatric Advantage folks have someone who will come speak, bring samples and information to a meeting once you get it started, but she may have some ideas for you too, just go to their website and check them out Carol j