A Cancer Education Program for Parents

A five-session workshop to help diagnosed parents talk with their child.  The program includes ways you can:

• Enhance communication with your child in talking about your cancer.
• Draw out your child’s feelings and concerns.
• Support your child and decrease stress related to your cancer.
• “She didn’t really talk about it. Maybe that’s because she didn’t know how to put it into words,” Parent of a 9-year old

For upcoming session dates/time & questions, please contact Anita at Gilda’s Club (563) 326-7504.

Program to Help People with Cancer Manage Stress

Through weekly group sessions, cancer patients will learn:

• Strategies to help manage stress
• Ways to lessen the impact of physical symptoms of cancer
• Skills to cope with common problems faced by people with cancer

Sessions will be held on Tuesdays from 10:00- 11:30 PM, starting February 19, 2019 at Gilda’s Club.

Are you a cancer survivor? Have you helped a family member or friend deal with cancer? How did you learn to live with cancer?

We are looking for honest, detailed personal essays by young writers (11th-12th grade) who demonstrate an authentic ability to move readers by sharing their experience with cancer.

We have two $1000 prizes!

• Essay and completed contest entry form must be submitted by mail or email (in PDF format), postmarked by 2/1/2019.
• Essay must be typed, double spaced, and 500 to 2000 words long.
• Essays will be read by a panel of celebrity judges: Paula Sands – Paula Sands Live, Denise Hnytka – WQAD, & John Marx – The Dispatch-Argus.