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A big thank you to Piidea Canada!
Young Adult Cancer Canada would like to send a shout out to our Montreal friends of Piidea Canada!
A group of awesome individuals working for Piidea Canada contacted YACC a couple of months ago with the very cool idea of raising money for young adults dealing with cancer through raising pledges in their personal challenge of completing the Tour de l'Ile de Montreal, which is a 52 kilometres long!
Through their amazing efforts our friends at Piidea Canada raised over $1,600!
From all of us at Young Adult Cancer Canada we would like to send out a huge THANK YOU to Piidea!
Posted on Jun 24, 2009 - 11:20 AM
Best fundraising golf tournament to date!
On Thursday, June 18, golfers, supporters and volunteers participated in Young Adult Cancer Canada’s annual golf tourney at Glendenning Golf in St. John’s, NL. It was YACC’s 9th Birthday and we couldn't be happier with the results.
The weather was gorgeous, the birthday cake was tasty, and the addition of a seasoned auctioneer prompted not only a lot of fun and laughs amongst the crowd, but also record-breaking funds raised for young adults dealing with cancer!
We'd like to send out a HUGE thanks to everyone involved, from our amazing third party organizing committee at TD Canada Trust, to our hole sponsors, donors, volunteers, and, of course, the golfers. We couldn't have done this without you!
We look forward to next year's 10th anniversary.
Posted on Jun 24, 2009 - 10:45 AM
Feeds
The web is a bit different than any medium before it. One of its shortcomings (from a web publisher’s point of view) is that there isn’t any inherent way to keep visitors coming back to your website.
One of the technologies that has developed to complement the web is RSS. It’s a system whereby publishers can push their content to subscribers, using a website like Google Reader, or an application like NetNewsWire.
It can be a bit confusing, but it does take us one step closer to a vision of the future. I use Google Reader to compile a few dozen feeds of my far flung interests to give me something interesting to inspire/teach/distract me everyday.
At Young Adult Cancer Canada, we’re hoping that this will make it easier for some of you to keep up to date on what we’re putting on the web. We’ll also be using these feeds to power a souped up email newsletter and a new Facebook fan page, so stay tuned for those developments in the near future.
If you’d like you can subscribe to our brand new RSS feeds: Community Profiles, Community Articles, Young Adult Cancer News, Geoff’s Blog, Shave for the Brave News, or this Organization Blog.
Posted on Jun 19, 2009 - 11:37 AM
YACC pilots a new program: Retreat Yourself for a day!
On June 6, YACC partnered with Hope & Cope in Montreal to hold its first one-day workshop for young adults. The purpose of the workshop, like all our programs, is to deliver inspiration, information, and support to young adult patients, survivors, and supporters. It is a form of mini Retreat, but unlike the Retreat Yourself program, the workshop is delivered on a local level and is a one day event. Montreal was the first of many Canadian cities to host the event (we hope), so we can reach more young adults, reduce the isolation, and enhance the sense of community. You are not alone takes on a whole new meaning!
On a beautiful and sunny Saturday morning, nine survivors and three supporters met at the Hope & Cope Wellness Centre JGH (an amazing site to hold our first workshop). We were very lucky to have experienced, generous, and motivated facilitators on board with us to make that day the success that it was.
Susanne O'Brien, Executive Director of Hope & Cope and a long supporter of YACC, acted has our host (and mother hen taking care of us like no other).
Sylvie Aubin, psychologist at the Jewish General Hospital and part of the McGill AYA Clinic, had an open discussion on issues around sexuality, intimacy, and relationships with the one-day troopers. It was wonderful to have someone with her expertise to address issues that are too often forgotten.
Gwynneth Gorman, Drama Therapist and Volunteer Coordinator for Cedars CanSuppport/Faire Face, allowed us to be playful bringing her touch of drama therapy in the day getting the participants to play on the theme of stress and how we cope with it. We had so much fun doing it, that we did not even realize we were processing some coping skills.
Scott Adams, Exercise Physiologist at the Wellness Centre, got people moving and also learning how to better incorporate physical activity in their daily life and why it's important to do so.
Deborah Bridgman, a three-time cancer survivor shared her story and inspired everybody in the room.
I was also part of the day and got to share on YACC's programs and updated the survivors on some information on the young adult issues.
Scott acted as our BBQ chef and everybody had time to chat and get to know each other during lunch. Claire from VOBOC (Venturing Out Beyond Our Cancer) stopped by during lunch and distributed wonderful gifts to the survivors.
Like mentioned above, this was our first workshop and according to the evaluations and the feedback we received from the participants, it looks like it was a success! Not every survivor is able to attend our four-day Retreats and we were able to give those survivors another option in their community can allow them to connect with other young adults who while while learning, sharing, and getting some support.
This was just the beginning and we are hoping to send this new program across the board! Next stop? Toronto was interested; Anyone else?
I want to take this opportunity to thank again everybody who participated and also thank the precious collaborators and facilitators; we could not have done it without them!
Posted on Jun 11, 2009 - 01:04 PM
YACC attendance at CCAN meeting
So some of you had probably seen on my Facebook status on Friday that I was going to Toronto, for meetings over the weekend to represent the young adult voice at the Canadian Cancer Action Network (CCAN) table. Well, I thought I would write a little about my experience and what CCAN is all about.
CCAN works with federal and provincial decision makers to ensure a national system that optimizes care and treatment outcomes through all phases of the cancer control continuum from prevention through treatment and palliation.
CCAN is made up of Canada's leading cancer patient organizations and represents the patient's voice to help build and sustain a cancer control model that is successful as possible in combating cancer.
Young Adult Cancer Canada was invited to join CCAN over the winter and I attended my first meeting with them in Toronto this weekend. Now, I have attended many meetings, conferences, committees, etc. since being thrown into this cancer world and they all have varying levels of sincere concern, personal agendas, and bureaucracy which I don't condemn.
MY personal agenda is to push the young adult voice forward, so I know others are responsible for pushing their own agendas. However, I have to say, that through Friday night and Saturday this committee fully had the patients/survivors top of mind. There was less "this is what I need you to do for me" and more "how can we work together to make sure all of our patients/survivors are taken care of?" This was a very refreshing situation to be a part of.
There was complete acceptance of YACC's involvement and sincere concern/interest in our unique issues. Even those that were not fully aware of the unique issues of young adult cancer patients/survivors were very open and interested in hearing more.
This past weekend was just my first experience with CCAN, so I am still feeling the waters and learning more about the group but my first experience was a good one. I feel that this group truly has the patient/survivor agenda top of mind and they are doing a good job of representing them at the federal level. I am looking forward to working more with this group and having our unique issues heard.
For more information on CCAN please visit their website
Posted on Jun 09, 2009 - 10:40 AM