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The Wellness Community offers a wide menu of support services to people with cancer and their loved ones. Services include support groups, stress management sessions, educational programs, exercise sessions and nutrition workshops. At The Wellness Community, people with cancer join with others to learn they are not alone. In doing so, they gain valuable knowledge and coping skills that enable them to find hope and support irrespective of their stage of disease. One of the most important features of our services is that they are all completely free of charge. Anyone who walks through the doors of The Wellness Community is welcomed, and encouraged to participate in any or all that we offer.
The cornerstone of The Wellness Community is the Patient Active Concept. It encompasses the belief that patients who actively participate with their physicians and medical team in their fight for recovery can improve the quality of their lives and may enhance the possibility of their recovery. Whether it is physical, emotional and/or spiritual recovery, all participants can benefit from the dynamic synergy of a healing community. Below are links to specific materials and resources that The Wellness Community provides. These helpful resources can be found in full at www.thewellnesscommunity.org.
"Combining the will of the patient with the skill of the physician -
a powerful combination in the fight against the common enemy - cancer!"
— Harold Benjamin, PhD, Founder of The Wellness Community
Advanced Breast Cancer
Being diagnosed with advanced (metastatic) breast cancer can bring up many different emotions. There are many new treatments to consider, side effects to manage and emotional and practical needs to address as you try to maintain the best quality of life. The Wellness Community offers support, education and hope to women newly diagnosed and living with advanced breast cancer in our new program, The Patient Active Guide to Living With Advanced Breast Cancer. The information on these pages will empower you to be Patient Active in your cancer journey, helping you feel less isolated, more in control and more hopeful about the future.
Additional Patient Education Materials
- Clinical Trials
- Colorectal Cancer
- Lung Cancer
- Frankly Speaking About Lung Cancer (2nd Edition)
- Frankly Speaking About Lung Cancer - Special Focus on Small Cell Lung Cancer - Lymphoma
- New Discoveries in Cancer
- Ovarian Cancer
- Side Effects Management
- Cancer Vaccines
The Virtual Wellness Community
Finally, cancer support services are available anytime, anywhere. The Wellness Community's services offered in a home-like setting in our 23 centers worldwide are also accessible online.
The Virtual Wellness Community offers the following services:
- Online Support Groups: Free, professionally-led, weekly, password protected support groups offered in real-time. Online Support Groups are available for any person with any type of cancer and for loved ones of people with cancer.
- Resource Library: Visitors can access key cancer resources, including our popular educational materials.
- Kitchen and Nutrition Center: Offers resources and information on vitamins, foods and general nutrition that will be valuable before, during and after treatment.
- Mind/Body Room: Provides online relaxation and guided imagery exercises for stress management
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Research
The Wellness Community is involved in national research with partners such as Stanford University and the University of California at San Francisco to demonstrate and publish the positive effects on people affected by cancer by participating in our many programs. Our research team is led by Mitch Golant, PhD, a licensed psychologist. The Goals of our Research Program are as follows:
- Answer questions about psychosocial support important to people with cancer and the cancer community at large.
- Develop and modify our programs and services based on evidence and data.
- Establish The Wellness Community's Patient Active Concept as the gold standard of psychosocial support for people with cancer.
- Utilize research data to improve training and program delivery.
Interactive Education
In addition to providing free Patient Education booklets and workshops, The Wellness Community provides interactive education materials that include podcasts, webcasts, online CEU courses for nurses, and links to telephone workshops.
Start a TWC
The vision of The Wellness Community is to extend our services to all people with cancer and their loved ones. In order to accomplish this, we hope to open centers in many more cities throughout the United States and the world. Most of our centers have begun because someone like you realized that people with cancer and their loved ones can benefit from the support, education, and hope that The Wellness Community offers and they wanted to make those services available in their city. Many of the founders of our local centers are cancer survivors dedicated to helping others in their fight for recovery.
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