• What is cancer?
• Cancer treatments
• What your parents may be feeling
• Taking care of yourself
• Finding support
• Link: https://www.cancer.gov/publications/patient-education/when-your-parent-has-cancer.pdf

• Link: https://www.cancer.gov/publications/patient-education/when-your-sibling-has-cancer.pdf

• Link: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/coping/caregiver-support/teens

• Webpage: “Support with Grief” https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/supporting-someone/coping-with-bereavement/support-with-grief
• Webpage: “Remembering someone” https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/supporting-someone/coping-with-bereavement/remembering-someone

• Webpage: General tips and advice on how to explain cancer to children:

Includes specific advice for children with learning disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders

• Link: https://www.macmillan.org.uk/information-and-support/coping/talking-about-cancer/talking-to-children/explaining-cancer.html

• Webpage: Understanding children and teenagers’ reactions
  • Provides information on how children and teens or different ages react to the knews that a loved one has cancer
  • Link: https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/diagnosis/talking-about-cancer/understanding-children-and-teenagers-reactions
• In-depth online guide for talking to children about cancer (+ sections for different age groups)
  • Link:http://be.macmillan.org.uk/Downloads/CancerInformation/ChildrenAndYoungPeople/MAC5766TalkingtochildrenE2.pdf
• Online Booklet “Preparing a child for loss” produced by Winstons wish for parents who have a diagnosis of terminal cancer and are nearing the end of life
  • Aims to support them in having the difficult conversation to prepare a child for the death of a parent or close family
  • Link: https://be.macmillan.org.uk/be/p-25033-preparing-a-child-for-loss.aspx

• A forum to help you connect with other young people going through similar experiences
• An Advice column with FAQ’s
• Email contact if you have a query or need personal advice/emotional support (respond within 48 hours)
• And much more…
• Link: http://www.riprap.org.uk/support/

• Link: https://www.winstonswish.org/online-chat/

• Dates of when the groups are running are posted on their website under “What’s On” as well as their social media pages.
• Not run at all the hospitals.
• Run in the Maggie’s West London Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8RF.
  • Tel: 020 7386 1750
  • Link: https://www.maggies.org/our-centres/maggies-west-london/

• Link: https://community.maggiescentres.org/home
• Webpage: Talking to children
  • Includes information on how best to tell them, how to help them and how their behavior can manifest further
  • Link: https://www.maggies.org/cancer-support/managing-socially/talking-children/

• Contains information on…
  • Talking to children about death
  • How telling a child might help you
  • Getting support with telling them
  • Who should be involved, where and when should I tell them?
  • How do I begin the conversation?
• Video: Paola’s Story—Talking to my children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjIloF3GQzw&feature=emb_title
• Link: https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/help/support/diagnosed/talking-children/children

• Julie chats to CanTeen’s John Friedsam about different ways to talk about your cancer diagnosis with your kids. We also hear from Suzanne, a mother who ha to explain her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment to her children.
• Link:  https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/podcasts/episode-5-explaining-cancer-to-kids-2/
• As Big as it Gets by Julie Stokes and Diana Crossley
• Helps families cope with serious illness of a parent or child
• Provides ideas for parents/carers to explain what is happening to their children.
• Webpage “When a family member has cancer”
• Contains information and advice on helping student cope if one of their family members have cancer, how it might impact a student’s performance, and how schools can hel
• https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/cancer-information/schools-and-teachers/cancer-in-the-school-community/family-cancer/
• Webpage “Talking about cancer in schools”
• https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/cancer-information/schools-and-teachers/cancer-in-the-school-community/talking-about-cancer/
• Webpage “Schools and teachers”
• Offers a range of resources to help you manage the issues raised by cancer in your school
• https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/cancer-information/schools-and-teachers/

• 7 days a week 8am-8pm

• Offer Information to local services and referrals to local specialists
• Connections to local social/friendship groups
• Call center open 0am-5pm Monday-Friday on 01708 758649
• Tea and Talk at Toby’s by Saint Francis Hospice in partnership with Macmillan cancer support is monthly social gathering for anyone whose life has been affected by cancer.
• For more information please call 01708 758649 or email them at orangeline@sfh.org.uk
• Southend road, Woodford Green