How to Support a Friend with Cancer:
- My Friend Has Cancer?!
- A six-part series about how young adults can better support their friends who are going through cancer.
Support Groups
- Smith Center for Healing and the Arts
- INOVA/ Life with Cancer
- Hope Connections
Online Resources
- Lotsa Helping Hands
- Free online caring communities that provide tools to organize daily life during times of medical crisis or caregiver exhaustion. Host more than 60,000 Private Communities that are hard at work supporting caregivers across the U.S. Recently launched an Open Community model to connect caregivers, individuals, and families who need help with those who want to lend a helping hand.
- National Alliance for Caregiving
- Dedicated to providing support to family caregivers and the professionals who help them and to increasing public awareness of issues facing family caregivers.
- National Family Caregivers Association
- Educates, supports, empowers, and speaks up for the more than 50 million Americans who care for loved ones with a chronic illness or disability or the frailties of old age.
- Caregiver Companion Program
- The Caregiver’s Companion Program is a free program for caregivers of blood & marrow transplant patients that combines a useful toolkit with the personalized, confidential support of a caregiver coach who understands transplant and the caregiver role.
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