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Program Sponsorship OpportunitiesThe following are examples of GCNYC programs currently available for sponsorship. Each of these hasbeen tailored both to articulate a real need of our organization and to provide prospective partners with anopportunity for targeted profile building.Customized Membership Planning for New Members$50,000 / yearThe community and programming created at GCNYC is reflective of the members’ needs. BecauseGCNYC is a member-driven community, the intake process we employ is critical to the maintenance of anenvironment conducive to building emotional and social support. Intake consists of two steps: the NewMember Meeting, a group orientation and introduction to GCNYC, and the Customized Membership Plan,a one-on-one meeting between a new member and a social worker to assess a prospective member’s needsand what GCNYC programs would best meet them. This process is critical for a new member because it oftenprovides their first recognitionof the emotional and socialburden that accompanies acancerdiagnosis, along with therealization that support isavailable. The process is criticalfor GCNYC because it allowsus to assess the appropriatenessof each prospective memberfor our community: identifyingin advance the need for otherservices beyond our scope,such as housing, financial aidand psychiatric assessment.In the past several years,we have seen a dramaticincrease in the number ofprospective members facingmultiple mental health issuesin addition to the emotionalburden of cancer; currently, 3out of 5 prospective memberstake medication for some psychological or behavioral issue. This trend has required us to more carefullyscrutinize prospective members, and often, to collaborate with members’ mental health team and/or othercare providers in order to sustain their healthy participation. At the same time, the pool of clinical socialworkers willing to volunteer their time for Customized Membership Plan meetings has dwindled whileour membership has increased. We have approximately 420 CMP meetings per year between our twosites, and are finding it increasingly necessary to pay social workers to facilitate these meetings.
Noogieland Bereavement Program for Children$20,000 / YearFor 7 years, Gilda’s Club New York City has run its Noogieland program for children affected by cancer.This program has primarily been attended by children who have a parent or guardian living with cancer.There is a growing need, however, to expand the scope of the Noogieland program to better accommodatechildren whose loved ones have died. The creation of a Children’s Bereavement Program will vastlyimprove the quality of support we can make available to families who have lost a parent or loved one. Atpresent, we have children attending Noogieland who are grieving the death of a parent or guardian who hasdied of cancer. The support they currently receive comes from interacting with each other: talking to otherchildren who have experienced a similar loss helps to reduce the sense of isolation that separates grievingchildren from their peers. This support would be greatly enhanced, however, by the implementation ofa structured curriculum to guide these children through the stages of grieving, and by the creation of acomplementary program to help the children’s remaining guardians communicate effectively to reinforcean emotionally healthy approach to the grieving process.We plan to begin holding a second Noogie Night every week at our Manhattan Clubhouse, specificallyfor bereaved children. This program will consist of a series of structured workshops. Each workshopwill begin with a 20-30 minute exercise exploring an aspect of the grieving process. For instance, in oneexercise children will be asked to envision and draw where their loved one has gone; in another, they willshare stories about the person who has died. This structured support will provide each child with the toolsto cope with their loss in an emotionally healthy manner. The National Mental Health Association hasstressed that when a child’s grieving process is denied or avoided, this is likely to lead to severe mentalhealth problems later in life. It is imperative that we provide the children we serve with the best availablecoping skills to work through their loss.
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