Our Client Advocates:
- Assess and identify the full range of family needs
- Work with clients on an ongoing basis to assure needs are met
- Provide supportive counsel to clients and families
- Enhance quality of life by providing meaningful resources, information and compassionate assistance
Programs & Services
When people with cancer come to Cancer Services, they are connected to a Client Advocate. The Advocate interacts not only with the cancer patient, but with the entire family, as well. He or she assesses and identifies the full-range of needs for each family, and works with each client on an ongoing basis to assure that those needs continue to be met.
Clients and their families benefit from:
- Personalized supportive counseling
- Therapeutic mental health counseling
- Specialized programming for children with cancer (Kids Surviving Cancer)
- Specialized programming for children affected by cancer (Courageous Kids)
- Cognative rehabilitation for "chemo brain" (Clarity Project)
- Professional financial consultation
- Professional legal consultation
- Sexual health education and counseling
- Support communities
- Financial assistance for cancer-related expenses
- Advocacy with insurers and employers
- Information and referrals
- Resource library
- Durable medical equipment loans
- Home health care supplies
- Nutrition consultations and education
- Nutrition supplies
- Educational workshops
- Transportation assistance
- Massage
- Exercise therapy, including yoga, tai chi and stretching
- Wigs, hats and scarves
