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The National Brain Tumor Foundation has been a very supportive partner since the inception of AMF. Their website offers information about brain tumors and treatment, brain tumor medical centers, the latest brain tumor clinical trials as well as connecting you to a network of brain tumor survivors. And you can find out how you can support brain tumor research and programs by participating in Angel Adventure Walks and other NBTF events across the country. |
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The Well Spouse Association (wellspouse.org) is an international, not for profit membership organization which gives support to wives, husbands, and partners of the chronically ill and/or disabled. Well Spouse support groups meet monthly. Well Spouse publishes a quarterly newsletter, "Mainstay". For more information, email Well Spouse at info@wellspouse.org, or call 1-800-838-0879 |
Caring Connections is a program to improve care at the end of life, providing free resources to help people make decisions about end-of-life care and services before a crisis. Brochures on advance care planning, hospice and palliative care are available by visiting www.caringinfo.org or by calling the HelpLine at 800-658-8898 The National Hospice Foundation envisions a world where individuals and families facing serious illness, death, and grief will experience the best care that human can offer to fellow human. NHF raises funds for ground-breaking fundamental research and program development in consumer education, hospice access, quality of care, professional education, and related issues. Visit them at www.nationalhospicefoundation.org. |
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Active Minds is the nation's only peer-to-peer organization dedicated to the mental health of college students. The organization serves as the young adult voice in mental health advocacy on more than two hundred college campuses nationwide. |
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OUR HOUSE is a nonprofit, nonsectarian grief support center offering grief support groups for children, adolescents, and adults after the death of a spouse, a parent, a sibling, a child, or someone close. We provide grief training for medical students, clergy, mental health professionals, and the community. |
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Lory's Place provides peer support group services for grieving children (under 18) and their families in Southwest Michigan and Northern Indiana. The Center is a focal point for raising awareness and supporting the needs of children who grieve. The Center also offers an Anticipatory Grief program to assist those experiencing the anticipated death of a love one due to illness or disease. |
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Kate’s Club is open to all school-aged children and teens living in the Metro-Atlanta area and surrounding counties who have experienced a death of a parent, sibling, or caregiver at some point in their lifetime. Their approach to support is based on four cornerstones, all of which support their purpose of providing grieving children and their families with an environment where they can re-engage in life and turn a potentially debilitating loss into a growth opportunity: Fun, Community, Safety, Long-term. |
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GASMS and National Students of AMF have reached a collaboration to promote each others activities, work collaboratively through the web, and network with other students around the world to share resources in coping at http://amf.globalalliancesms.org . |
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Treating families to WOW! Experiences, giving children who will lose their Mom or Dad to cancer a timeout to create indispensable memories as a family...while they can. |
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The American Institute for Cancer Research is the cancer charity that fosters research on the relationship of nutrition, physical activity and weight management to cancer risk, interprets the scientific literature and educates the public about the results. Please visit our website, www.aicr.org, for guidelines on cancer prevention, to find healthy recipes, to access our nutrition hotline, to subscribe to any of our e-newsletters, to download or order any of our free publications on cancer prevention or for information for newly diagnosed cancer patients. |
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Grief Worthy is a place for you to go to, to express the pain you have experienced with your loss. Every one of us navigates through loss in very different ways, but from our loss we all have one common thread, we in our hearts never want our loved one to be forgotten. They need to live on for us, in some way. Everyone has had a message, a purpose, a meaning in their life. |
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Camp Kesem is a college student run summer camp for children whose parents currently have or have had cancer. College student volunteers at over 20 colleges across the country organize and staff the free week-long camp for children ages 6-13. |
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Campus Media Group is a leading national college marketing agency that helps national brands and agencies develop custom media and marketing strategies that reach students. They specialize in college newspaper placement, direct marketing, social networking programs, campus events, and custom guerilla marketing on and off campus. For more information on the company, visit them online at www.CampusMediaGroup.com, on Twitter @campus_media, or contact them at 952-854-3100. |
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The NavigateCancer Foundation's mission is to improve cancer care by providing easily accessible cancer navigation tools and services for patients and their families. This is a fancy way of saying we empower patient to become self-advocates managing their cancer care in a holistic and educated fashion. Specifically, we provide personalized and contextualized education on their disease, help them identify their priorities, help them ask the right questions, read and explain their pathology, medical testing reports and clinical trial information, verify MD credentials, provide holistic supports and referrals (spiritual, emotional and mental), symptom management and a whole host of other services. All are offered free to patients. |
