Developing Support Groups

In a continuing effort to re-construct and develop a larger network of chapters, TRIO seeks those individuals or groups who are interested in serving as contact points within their geographic areas.

To be listed as a "developing" chapter does not require a commitment to follow through by developing a chapter. This is simply a way for TRIO to provide a central contact point for those wishing to connect in various geographic areas. Chapter development may or may not occur, depending on the decisions of the support group serving as a contact point for transplant recipients and donors and donor families.

Please contact sleach@trioweb.org or call 1-800-TRIO-386 if you are interested in serving as an unofficial contact point in a geographic area or you are interested in starting a TRIO chapter in development.

Developing Chapters

The following points of contact are offered if you cannot locate an Active Chapter for your area.  These contact people look forward to hearing from you and may have a group forming nearby that you can join . . .

TRIO Youth Circle (forming an on-line "virtual chapter")

Youth Circle co-leaders: Mary Wu and Bill Coon
email Mary:: mwu82@yahoo.com and Bill: philanthropy@billcoonbooks.com
Also we're on MySpace and Facebook - user names are TeenTrio

Alabama

Dothan Area: Elli Argenti
email: emargenti@hotmail.com

Arizona

Tucson Area: Elizabeth Carlin Phone: 520-304-5055
email: ec14@cox.net

California

Newport Beach: Catherine McNair, Home Phone: 949-644-2860
email: catherinemcnair@sbcglobal.net

Orange County: Gary Foxen, home phone: 714-637-0412
email: craftsman@socal.rr.com

Colorado:

Paul & Traci Danna, Home Phone: 303-471-8313
email: ptvdanna@hotmail.com

Connecticut:

Danbury: Asher Sellner, Phone: 203-775-4664
email: hasellner@gmail.com

Florida 

Sarasota:  Current meetings are Sarasota Memorial Hospital, 3rd Thursday of the month, 6:30PM-8:30PM (call for room numbers)
Bette Luksha-Gammell  941-321-4025 

Orlando: Ron Johnson, Phone: 407-340-9469
email: ronjohnson@cfl.rr.com

Polk county: (meetings forming) 
Tampa to Ft. Myers with meetings planned in each city as memberhsip increases.
Currently waiting on next meeting date, meeting to be held in the general Tampa area at All Children's Hospital
 Bette Luksha-Gammell  941-321-4025 

Southeast Florida (North Broward, South Palm Beach Counties)
Debra Kuhnly
email: debdog1@aol.com   

Georgia

Atlanta Area:
Cathy Kasriel , Phone: 404-321-0645
email: ckasriel@bellsouth.net

Illinois

Chicago: Pam Richard
email: ynotbeanorgandonor@gmail.com

Springfield: Diane Curtiss, Phone: 217-789-6142
email: ottrspttr@sbcglobal.net

Kentucky

Lexington: Jim and Tandy Owen, phone: 859-351-3678
email: Tandy@jtoenterprises.com

Minnesota

Minneapolis: Erin Mullen,
email: eemullen82@yahoo.com

Missouri

Dan Brumbaugh, RN, Phone: 417-859-5587
email: cmgrteam4@yahoo.com 

New Jersey 

Jackson NJ (surrounding Jersey shore area): Stanley Epstein: 732-370-2150
email: sepstein8321@optonline.net

New York 

Albany (Upstate NY): Joan Kruegler, phone: 518-533-7879
email: jkruegler@alliancefordonation.org

Rochester: Tiffany Amalfi
email: Tiffany_Amalfi@urmc.rochester.edu

North Carolina

Greenville: Barbara Lee
email: blee@pcmh.com

Raleigh/Wake Forest: Carolyn Fowler
email: fowlerc2@gmail.com

Winston-Salem: Robin Graves, Phone: 336-760-3439
email: bellairis1@yahoo.com
  
Ohio

Cincinnati: Julie Bonn
email: Julie.bonn@yahoo.com

Columbus: Grenda Gerencser
email: bgerencser@columbus.rr.com

Oklahoma

Tulsa: Stacy Pleasant, Phone: 918-640-9928
email: sbpleasant@cox.net

Pennsylvania

Harrisburg: Peter Conklin, Phone: 717-240-2682
email: peteconklin@embarqmail.com

York: Christina Barton
email: 1cbarton@comcast.net (that's the number "1", not the letter "l" in that e-mail address)

South Carolina

Charleston: Buck Bannister, Phone: 803-589-9225
email: jesse.buck@gmail.com

Texas

Austin: Helen Monaco, Phone: 512-496-5285
email: hlmals@yahoo.com

Fredericksburg: Vickie Phillips, phone: 830-456-2470
email: vphillips@awesomenet.net

Houston: Lyndon Carter, Phone: 281-650-5186
email: carterinsurance@aol.com

Virginia


Virginia Beach/Tidewater Area: William Letchford, Phone: 757-575-8133
email: letchfordw@sddc.army.mil

Washington

<>Seattle: David Hall
email: davidlloydhall@live.com