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Index of resources:

Young Adult Networking and Support
Survivorship/Long-Term Follow-Up Clinics
Financial and Legal Support
Get Active!
Fertility Advocacy and Education
Pediatrics Organizations
 

Young Adult Networking and Support

• i[2]y California | Los Angeles -- I'm Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation
  
  Organization empowers young adults affected by cancer. Website links to all resources to navigate your survivorship. LA Chapter provides hip social networking events with other young adults including the monthly weSPARK/i2y Young Adult Networking Group.
  
  Website: www.i2y.com
   
• Cancer Center of Santa Barbara -- Young Adult Support Group
  
  Provides a place where young adults, ages 18-40, can share their cancer experience, support one another, and exchange information.
  
  Website: www.ccsb.org
   
• Colleges Against Cancer 
  
  Chapters (UCLA, USC, Pepperdine, and more) support the American Cancer Society’s mission to promote activities in advocacy, cancer control, Relay For Life, and Survivorship.
  
  Email: cac@cancer.org
  
• Group Loop -- Cancer Support Community
  
  A safe place for teens with cancer and their parents to build an online community to find support, education, and hope while dealing with a cancer diagnosis.
  
  Website: www.grouploop.com
   
• iBelieve Army
  
  East Los Angeles community organization that provides information and resources for cancer patients and family in a nurturing environment to help make it easier to accept that it’s time to embrace your neighbor and say, “I need you”.
  
  Website: www.facebook.com/ibelieveLIVESTRONGArmy
   
• Imerman Angels 
  
  Provides one-on-one cancer support by connecting cancer fighters, survivors and caregivers.
  
  Website: www.imermanangels.org
   
• mass Kickers Foundation
  
  Empower patients and their loved ones through knowledge and to make them feel less helpless when faced with an intimidating diagnosis.
  
  Website: www.masskickers.com
   
• Planet Cancer
  
  A community of young adults with cancer in their 20s and 30s to share insights, explore our fears, laugh, or even give the finger to cancer with others who just plain get it.
  
  Website: www.planetcancer.org
   
• Premiere Oncology Foundation and Beckstrand Art Therapy Program
  
  Cancer and Creativity (ages 21+) introduces cancer patients and cancer survivors to varied art materials and creative art techniques used to help create hope, express uncertainties, and elaborate on issues of illness and life changes.
  
  Website: www.premiereoncology.org
   
• Teen Impact 
  
  Teen Impact is a program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for teens and young adults that have or once had cancer or a blood disease. Program is open to teens and young adults from any part of the country and from any hospital or treatment center. Monthly support groups for teens, young adults, parents and siblings.
  
  Website: www.teenimpactprogram.com
   
• Thrive/Survive Los Angeles
  
  Creating a portal community to enable real-life meet ups of young adult cancer survivors and access to information such as understanding local medical practitioners, financial resources, and lifestyle information. Creating a portal community to enable real-life meet ups of young adult cancer survivors and access to information such as understanding local medical practitioners, financial resources, and lifestyle information.
  
  Website: www.thrivesurvive.org
   
• YAconnect -- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
  
  Weekly online chat and webcast for young adults facing any type of cancer featuring candid and open discussion on treatment topics.
  
  Website: www.LLS.org/YAconnect
   
• weSPARK Cancer Support Center
  
  Provides, free of charge, a center where one can join with others to share their experience, strength, and hope.
   

Survivorship / Long-Term Follow-Up Clinics

• UCLA-LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence
  
  Clinical program designed to meet the health needs of young adult cancer survivors (aged 18+) of pediatric and adult cancers.
  
  Website: www.vita.mednet.ucla.edu
  Phone: 310.825.9781
   
• UCLA Pediatric Long-Term Follow-Up Clinic
  
  Clinical survivorship program for pediatric/ teen cancer survivors.
  
  Website: www.cancer.ucla.edu
  Phone: 310.825.6708
   
• Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles -- LIFE Survivorship & Transition Program
  
  Program provides direct clinical care and support for childhood cancer survivors.
  
  Website: www.4lifesurvivors.org
  Phone: 323.361.8953
   
• City of Hope Center for Cancer Survivorship
  
  Program specialized in long-term follow-up care for cancer survivors, and, in the process, develop a critical resource of research in cancer survivorship.
  
  Website: www.cityofhope.org
  Phone: 626.256.4673
   
• Children's Hospital of Orange County
  
  Long-term follow-up care program for childhood cancer survivors.
  
  Website: www.choc.org/about/index.cfm?id=P00284
  Phone: 714.997.3000
   

Financial and Legal Support

• Cancer Legal Resource Center 
  
  Provides free information and resources on cancer-related legal issues.
  
  Website: www.CancerLegalResourceCenter.org
  Phone: 866.843.2572
   
• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Patient Financial Aid Program
  
  Patient Financial Aid Program provides $150 of financial assistance for leukemia and lymphoma patients and survivors.
  
  Website: http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/all_page.adp?item_id=4599
  Phone: 310.846.4704
   
• LIVESTRONG SurvivorCare
  
  Free professional support to address financial, insurance, emotional, physical, and day-to-day concerns.
  
  Website: www.livestrong.org
  Phone: 866.235.7205 (English) | 866.927.7205 (Spanish)
   
• National Cancer Information Center -- American Cancer Society 
  
  24/7 phone line to help people with answers related to cancer including health insurance assistance service.
  
  Website: www.cancer.org
  Phone: 800.227.2345
   
• Patient Advocate Foundation
  
  Provides services to patients to remove obstacles to healthcare including medical debt crisis, insurance access issues, and employment issues for patients with chronic, debilitating and life-threatening illnesses.
  
  Website: www.patientadvocate.org
  Phone: 800.532.5274
   

Get Active!

• First Descents
  
  Free week-long outdoor adventure programs including whitewater kayaking, rock climbing, and mountaineering for anyone between the ages of 18-39 who has ever heard the words “you have cancer.”
  
  Website: www.firstdescents.org
   
• Run to Cure
  
  On top of having a good time and promoting physical fitness for survivors, Run to Cure aims to promote awareness and raise money for pediatric cancer research.
  
  Website: www.smruns.com
   
• YogaBear
  
  Dedicated to promoting more opportunities (for survivors) for wellness and healing through the practice of yoga.
  
  Website: www.yogabear.org
   

Fertility Advocacy and Education

• Fertile Action
  
  Providing financial assistance to women who have the desire but not the financial means to pursue fertility preservation.
  
  Website: www.fertileaction.org
  Phone: 877.276.5951
   
• Fertile Hope 
  
  Fertile Hope is a LIVESTRONG initiative dedicated to providing reproductive information, support and hope to cancer patients and survivors whose medical treatments present the risk of infertility.
  
  Website: www.fertilehope.org
  Phone: 866.673.7295
   

Pediatrics Organizations

• Alex’s Lemonade Stand
  
  ALSF provides free resources to help get families to treatment including travel funds.
  
  Website: www.alexslemonade.org
  Phone: 866.333.1213
   
• Beckstrand Cancer Foundation
  
  Provides patients with a unique combination of financial assistance, supportive counsel, resources and patient advocacy.
  
  Website: www.beckstrand.org
  Phone: 949.955.0099
   
• Hats Off For Cancer
  
  Hats Off For Cancer collects and donates hats of all kinds to the courageous children who lose their hair due to cancer treatments.
  
  Website: www.hatsoffforcancer.org
   
• Michael Hoefflin Foundation
  
  Provides financial and emotional support to children and their families in the Santa Clarita and surrounding valleys.
  
  Website: www.mhf.org
  Phone: 661.250.4100
   
• Foundation ThinkAgain! 
  
  Created to serve pediatric and brain tumor surivors who continue to suffer due to cognitive late effects of cancer treatment.
  
  Website: www.ThinkAgain.org
   
• Pablove Foundation
  
  Funds pediatric cancer research and advances in treatment, educate and empower cancer families, and improve the quality of life for children living with cancer through hospital play, music and arts programs.
  
  Website: www.pablove.org
  Phone: 323.657.5557
   
• Padres Contra El Cáncer
  
  A non-profit organization committed to improving the quality of life for Latino children with cancer and their families.
  
  Website: www.iamhope.org
  Phone: 818.980.0208
   
• St. Baldrick’s Foundation
  
  A volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.
  
  Website: www.stbaldricks.org
  Phone: 626.792.8247
   
• Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation
  
  Provides financial and psychological support for patients and family dealing with cancer in the central California coast.
  
  Website: www.teddybearcancerfoundation.org
  Phone: 805.962.7466
   
• The Childhood Cancer Foundation of Southern California, Inc
  
  Provides emotional, social, educational, and emergency assistance to families who have, or have had, a child with cancer.
  
  Website: www.ccfsocal.org
  Phone: 909.558.3419
   
• We Can, Pediatric Brain Tumor Network
  
  Offers information and emotional support to families whose children have brain tumors, including family camps and teen group activities.
  
  Website: www.wecan.cc
  Phone: 310.739.3433