Family-to-Family
The Family to Family Program provides a way for two families to speak together about their cancer-related experiences.
Family volunteers are individuals who have a family member who has had an oncology diagnosis for at least 12 months; others are survivors of childhood cancer themselves.
Volunteers are matched over the telephone with a family that shares similar concerns or diagnoses.
Volunteer family members (parents and teens) participate in training and support meetings provided by the Family to Family coordinators.
Family to Family has three components:
- Parent to Parent matching
- Teen to Teen matching
- Pen Pal Program, a mail correspondence for children between the ages of 5 and 11.
- Child to Child match based on having a cancer diagnosis.
- Child to Child match based on being the sibling of a child with a cancer diagnosis.
Contact Information
If you are interested in learning more about the Family to Family program, contact:
Mary Rhude, Patient and Family Education Specialist
Address: Marjorie and Betty Ann Blum Pediatric Resource RoomDana Building, 3rd Floor
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Phone: (617) 632-4984
or
Christine Rich, MS, RN (coordinator)
Phone: (617)
355-4991
Maura O'Connell, MSW, LCSW (coordinator)
Phone: (617)
355-3994
Center for Families
Children's Hospital Boston
Farley Building, 1st Floor
