Community Organizations & Nonprofits
Bringing intimacy support into the places people already turn for help
Community organizations and nonprofits support patients, survivors, caregivers, and families in ways that often extend beyond clinical care, making them an important part of intimacy-informed cancer care.
CancerEVOLVE helps organizations address intimacy, sexuality, body image, and relationships within the programs and support they already provide. You do not need a sexual health program or specialist on staff to get started.
How can CancerEVOLVE help?
Provide education for patients, survivors, and partners
People often have questions about intimacy long after a medical appointment has ended. They may be dealing with changes in desire, sexual function, body image, physical closeness, dating, communication, or their relationship with a partner and may not know where to look for reliable, cancer-specific information.
CancerEVOLVE offers educational programs and resources that organizations can use to make this information more readily available to the communities they serve.
Prepare staff and volunteers to respond
Basic Staff Training gives staff, navigators, peer supporters, and volunteers a practical foundation for responding to intimacy-related concerns within their role and recognizing when additional support is needed.
Strengthen support groups
Intimacy, sexuality, body image, dating, and relationship concerns often arise in cancer support groups. CancerEVOLVE helps organizations prepare facilitators to respond effectively and can support the development of groups and programs focused specifically on these topics.
Connect people with the right support
Intimacy-related concerns can extend beyond an organization’s services and involve medical, physical, emotional, relational, or sexual health needs. CancerEVOLVE helps organizations identify appropriate resources and build clear referral pathways so staff know where to connect people for additional support.
Make useful education and support easier for staff to access.
Staff shouldn’t have to remember everything from a training or search for resources when a concern comes up. CancerEVOLVE curated resources and digital tools can help them respond to concerns, find useful information, and determine what to do next.
Start with what your community needs
A nonprofit may want to offer its first educational program about intimacy after cancer. A support organization may want to prepare facilitators for conversations that are already happening in its groups. Another may have patients regularly asking for resources and need a clearer way to respond.
CancerEVOLVE can help you identify a practical starting point that fits your organization, the people you serve, and the resources you already have.