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How to Help Your Child Answer Questions About Their Cancer or Serious Illness
BLOG How to Help Your Child Answer Questions About Their Cancer or Serious Illness Returning to school after a long absence or recent diagnosis can spur a lot of questions for your child about their cancer, illness or injury. And if there are changes in their...
Being a Teen and Young Adult Patient in the Gap Between Pediatrics and Adult Healthcare: How to Support Teenagers with Illnesses and Injuries
BLOGBeing a Teen and Young Adult Patient in the Gap Between Pediatrics and Adult Healthcare: How to Support Teenagers with Illnesses and Injuries By Dominique Viel, Founder and Executive Director of InvisiYouth Charity There is a true gap in healthcare for teenagers...
How to Help Siblings of Children with Cancer and Other Serious Illnesses
BLOG How to Help Siblings of Children with Cancer and Other Serious Illnesses When your brother or sister is diagnosed with cancer or another serious illness, your whole life changes. Routines, family dynamics and priorities are all flipped on their head, and you must...
What to Do When Your Child Is Diagnosed with Cancer or a Serious Illness/Injury
BLOGWhat to Do When Your Child Is Diagnosed with Cancer or a Serious Illness/Injury Your child has been diagnosed with cancer or another life changing illness or injury. Now what? Your head is spinning, you’re panicked and there is SO, SO much information to take in....
Medical Trauma Reactions in Caregivers: The Marathon of Medical Care
BLOGMedical Trauma Reactions in Caregivers: The Marathon of Medical Care By Drs. Meghan Marsac and Tess Smith-Thomas “At some point, I also had to acknowledge and deal with my own emotions associated with the role I’ve played for many years in his medical care. I put...
Finding Resources for Childhood Cancer With the Hope Portal
BLOGFinding Resources for Childhood Cancer with the Hope Portal By Mandy Spielvogle Powell, Managing Director of CAC2 In a world turned upside down by the words “your child has cancer”, the need for resources for childhood cancer, information, and support is more...
Helping Kids Manage Fear and Anxiety When They Have a Serious Illness
BLOGHelping Kids Manage Fear and Anxiety When They Have a Serious Illness When a child has a serious or chronic illness, it’s normal for them to be afraid and feel anxious. After all, you surely worry too! Your child may think a lot about what happened, develop new...
10 Gifts to Give a Friend Whose Child Has Cancer or Another Serious Illness
BLOG10 Gifts to Give a Friend Whose Child Has Cancer or Another Serious Illness (That’s Not Food) When a child is diagnosed with a life changing illness or injury, community support is critical. Yet it can be hard to know what to say or what gifts to give a friend...
How To Talk About Costs With Your Child’s Cancer Care Team
BLOGHow To Talk About Costs With Your Child’s Cancer Care Team By Devin Traxler, MSW, LSW Cancer, other illnesses, and injuries affect the whole family, especially when a child is diagnosed. There is fear and anxiety around their health and treatment outcome, stress...
Survivorship Lessons 42 Years “After” Cancer
BLOGSurvivorship Lessons 42 Years “After” Cancer By Mariah Forster Olson, Coalition Against Childhood Cancer (CAC2), Survivorship Interest Group Liaison, Secretary Treatments for childhood cancer can be incredibly brutal and toxic, and have the potential to leave...
