Resources for More Information: Organizing Help

Resources for More Information: Organizing Help

Christina Bach
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Christina Bach
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Christina Bach MBE, LCSW, OSW-C

35 months ago at 8:46 PMJanuary 30, 2023 at 8:46 PM

This article provides a list of reliable websites to assist you in organizing practical assistance like meal delivery, transportation to appointments, childcare, pet care, and companionship.

You can find tips on the internet to help you during and after your cancer treatment. You want to make sure what you are reading is true. Team OneVillage finds these websites to be up-to-date and reliable. These websites provide web-based tools to assist you in organizing practical assistance like meal delivery, transportation to appointments, childcare, pet care, and companionship.

My LifeLine

In partnership with the Cancer Support Community, My LifeLine provides a free platform to provide updates to family and friends, coordinate volunteers and cancer resources. Provides privacy controls so the user can give access to select persons. Targeted only to cancer patients.

www.mylifeline.org

Lotsa Helping Hands

Provides online space for users to create an online support community to organize help. Offers a calendar where users can highlight what help is needed and for what tasks on specific days. Also allows users to give updates to family and friends and receive support and notes of encouragement. For use by persons of any age and with any illness.

www.lotsahelpinghands.com

Meal Train

Supplies an online tool for organizing meals after a birth, surgery, or illness. Uses an interactive, online meal calendar and the ability to customize dates, times, and meal preferences. Can also be set up to send reminder emails to those who have volunteered to bring food. The basic platform is free. Enhanced Meal Train Plus is available for a fee and allows users to coordinate multiple meals per day as well as rides, childcare, and other tasks.

www.mealtrain.com

Take Them A Meal

Provides the ability to create an online signup sheet for family and friends to take meals to those in need. Sends automated reminder emails. Supplies recipes for “travel-friendly” meals as well as an option to send prepared frozen meals via Fed-Ex.

www.takethemameal.com

www.sendthemameal.com

Sign-Up Genius

Basic platform is free of charge and allows users to coordinate sign-ups for simple, one-time events. This can be great for appointments, a pot-luck, fundraiser, or other celebration.

www.signupgenius.com

2 comments

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Anonymous

Jim
Jim Delaney

I appreciate the inclusion of both practical and emotional support options in this list. It's important to address both aspects of cancer care.

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Sid
Sid Mahoun

Thank you for sharing these valuable resources for organizing help during cancer treatment. It can be overwhelming trying to navigate everything on your own, so having access to these resources will definitely be helpful.

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