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providing support groups to cancer patients and family members in East Hawaii: Reach to Recovery, Us Too, and I Can Cope: • Reach to Recovery: One-on-one support for women recently diagnosed with breast cancer; • Us Too: Prostate cancer support for men • I Can Cope Breast Cancer Support group for women: A new program in East Hawaii 3) PATIENT INFORMATION SUPPORT Information about cancer, its diagnoses, its treatments and its prognoses, are all offered with the sensitivities of patients and family members in mind from the American Cancer Society. Information is state-of-the-art and provides answers to those questions forgotten in the doctor's office. It is available on a personal basis in the East Hawaii field office and through staff and volunteers placed in health care settings. It also is accessible on the ACS website at www.cancer.org and through a 24/7 call center at 1-800-ACS-2345. 4) CHILDHOOD CANCER PROGRAMS The American Cancer Society offers three programs for keiki with cancer and their families. Having a child with cancer can turn a family upside down: adding to the heartbreak, there are time-consuming demands on parents, less time for the needs of siblings, and tremendous stress on the affected child. The Camps are offered free of charge to the keiki and their immediate family. • Camp Anuenue, a weeklong summer camp for children with cancer, ages 7 to 17. This experience provides an opportunity to build friendships with other children who also are fighting cancer. It has helped many keiki find the hope and physical strength to survive. • Ho`oulu Me Ka Ikaika ("Grow with Strength"), a retreat for teens and young adults, ages 14 to 21. This retreat empowers young people to face the combined stresses of cancer and the teen years. • Families CanvSurvVive, a family conference for children with cancer, their parents and siblings that provides an opportunity for families to discover their individual and family strengths while encouraging trust and communication. 5) NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS Nutritional supplements in the form of Ensure Plus or Glucerna. Cancer patients can find themselves debilitated physically and financially. Providing supplements to those who need them, when they need them, is often critical to their very survival. 6) LOOK GOOD...FEEL BETTER CLASSES A program that's like a make over for the spirit. Cancer can rob a woman of her energy, appitite and strenght. But it doesn't have to take away her self- confidence. Look Good... Feel Better is a free program that teaches beauty techniquest to women cancer patients in active treatment to help them compat the appearance-related side effects of cancer treatment. For those patients feeling a loss of physical self-esteem, these classes, shared with NONPROFIT GRANT APPLICATION FISCAL YEAR 2009-10 Page 4