Our Mission

Generation Lyme is a community built to empower people facing Lyme disease.

Our mission is to create a space where tick-borne disease patients and supporters can feel welcome, supported, safe, and inspired. We’re passionate about helping Lyme patients and their loved ones get the support they need.

Lyme disease can be extremely isolating. Generation Lyme exists to change that.

Learn more about who we are, what we do, and why we’re here.

Our Values

These are our guiding principles:

Community

Generation Lyme exists to bring Lyme disease patients and supporters together, to build strong bonds, lasting friendships, and the feeling that no one has to go through Lyme alone. We know how isolating Lyme can be, and we’ve created this organization to change that.

Support

Generation Lyme is here to provide emotional care, hope, and inspiration to the Lyme community. We are committed to fostering a safe space for Lyme patients. In our Meet-Ups and online spaces, Lyme patients can seek respite from their daily struggles and find understanding people on whom they can rely.

Belonging

If Lyme has impacted your life, there’s a place for you here. We pledge to provide a comforting environment free of discrimination, racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, harassment, and any form of harm. The Lyme community is diverse. Everyone has a place here.

Generation Lyme offers a comforting, uplifting support group. Meet-Ups are places to connect on equal ground for emotional support. To keep our community as low-pressure as possible, business promotions, product placement, or outside fundraising are not permitted at Meet-Ups.

Whatever you’re going through, know that Generation Lyme is rooting for you, always.