Cancer Centers & Health Systems
Every organization is starting from a different place.
Cancer centers often already have people, services, and resources that can support intimacy-related concerns. CancerEVOLVE helps connect and strengthen these efforts, from addressing a specific need to improving intimacy-informed care across the organization.
What can CancerEVOLVE can help with today?
Understand what is already happening
Before adding another program or resource, it can be useful to understand what is already in place.
The CancerEVOLVE Organizational Readiness Snapshot and Organizational Readiness Assessment help organizations look across the six domains of intimacy-informed care, recognize existing strengths, identify gaps, and determine where attention may be most useful.
Help staff feel prepared to respond
Most cancer professionals do not need specialist expertise in intimacy or sexual health. They do need enough knowledge, language, and clarity to recognize common concerns, respond appropriately within their role, and know where patients can go when additional support is needed.
CancerEVOLVE offers introductory and more focused education for clinical teams, supportive care professionals, patient-facing staff, facilitators, and leadership.
Create clearer pathways to support
Cancer-related intimacy concerns can range from questions that require basic information all the way to concerns that benefit from specialized clinical care. When referral options are unclear, both patients and staff can have difficulty knowing what should happen next.
A Referral Pathway Mapping session helps organizations identify internal and community resources, clarify different levels of support, uncover gaps, and make referral options easier to understand and use.
Make support easier for patients to find
Having excellent resources does not necessarily mean patients will encounter them when they need them.
CancerEVOLVE helps organizations strengthen how intimacy-related support becomes visible and accessible through patient education, practical conversation tools, digital resources, organizational messaging, and tools such as Clarity. Existing resources can also be reviewed to identify opportunities to use them more consistently rather than continually creating something new.
Strengthen a specific part of your program
Sometimes the opportunity is already clear.
A survivorship program may want to address intimacy more intentionally. Support group facilitators may need practical preparation. One department may have developed an approach that could be adapted elsewhere. Staff may need clearer roles or better tools. An organization may want to introduce intimacy support at several points in care rather than relying on a single conversation.
CancerEVOLVE can help with focused implementation projects built around a specific need, team, or program.
You do not need to know exactly where to begin
Some cancer centers come to CancerEVOLVE with a specific need, such as staff training, referral mapping, or patient resources. Others want to strengthen intimacy-informed care but aren’t sure where to focus.
The no-cost Organizational Readiness Snapshot can help identify strengths, gaps, and where to begin.