Staff Resources and Digital Tools
Practical tools that make intimacy-informed care easier to put into practice
Knowing that intimacy-related concerns matter is different from knowing what to say, what to do, or where to direct someone when a concern arises. CancerEVOLVE has practical resources and digital tools that help staff respond more consistently and make useful guidance easier to access in the moment it is needed.
Tools for everyday practice
Curated educational resources
Our curated educational resources can support staff with common parts of intimacy-informed care, including:
- Deepening understanding of cancer and intimacy-related topics
- Introducing intimacy-related topics with patients
- Responding when a concern is raised
- Knowing what falls within different staff roles
- Identifying appropriate first-line support
- Recognizing when additional expertise may be needed
- Finding relevant resources and referral options
- Supporting more consistent practices across a team
Depending on your organization, these may include conversation guides, concern-to-response tools, role guidance, referral resources, quick-reference materials, and digital education + inbox-deliverables.
Clarity ~ digital support for staff that makes guidance easier to access
Staff do not always need more information, rather sometimes they just need a quick way to figure out what to say or do when an intimacy-related concern comes up.
Clarity is CancerEVOLVE’s digital support tool designed to help staff navigate these moments. It provides practical guidance, precise language, curated resources, and possible next steps based on the situation they are facing.
Clarity can reinforce training and give staff support when they actually need it, without expecting them to remember everything they have learned.
Clearer roles and appropriate responses
Different professionals can contribute to intimacy-informed care in different ways.
Education can help teams distinguish between concerns that can be acknowledged through basic information and support, those that may benefit from a more focused response, and those that require specialist care. This helps professionals participate within their existing roles while understanding when and how to involve someone with additional expertise.
Education for support group facilitators
Support groups frequently become places where people talk about changes in relationships, sexuality, body image, dating, desire, and physical closeness. Facilitators may find themselves responding to these concerns without having received much preparation for them.
CancerEVOLVE offers training for professional and peer facilitators who want practical ways to welcome these conversations, maintain appropriate boundaries, and connect participants with additional resources when needed.
Continuing professional education
CancerEVOLVE is developing continuing education opportunities for professionals who want to explore intimacy-informed cancer care in greater depth.
Programs can address subjects such as communication, body image, relationships, consent, sexual wellbeing, professional comfort, referral practices, and the role different disciplines can play in supporting patients throughout cancer care.
CancerEVOLVE resources can be used on their own or incorporated into a larger organizational effort. Some are available as ready-to-use tools or as inbox-deliverables, while others can be adapted to reflect an organization’s roles, services, referral pathways, and patient population.
The goal is to give staff useful support they can actually use in practice.
Resources that fit the way your organization works
Looking for staff resources or digital support?
If your organization needs practical tools to support intimacy-informed education and care, we’d be glad to learn more about what would be useful for your team.