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Useful websites
The Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation
- Compassion can't wait. Within 24 hours, the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation helps with urgent expenses to allow single parents to stay at their child's bedside during catastrophic illness.
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CCC Scholarships, College Scholarships for Cancer Survivors
- Every cancer survivor deserves the chance to receive a college education. Yet the burden of medical debt, side effects of treatment, and limited access to financial and informational resources leaves many young adult cancer survivors with little hope of attending college.
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For Grace
- We believe empowering women to be better consumers for their pain management care, sensitizing healthcare professionals to gender pain disparities and enlightening public policy makers about pain as a major health issue will improve life outcomes for all women in pain
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Brain Cancer-everything you need to know
- Guidebooks for surviving catastrophic illness by Dr. Paul Zeltzer, co-director and physician for Whole Child LA.
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Teen Pain Help
- Teen Pain Help Foundation is designed to help children and teenagers with chronic pain by raising funds for treatment, research, education, and increased public awareness. Together we can help children and families going through chronic pain conquer it, and live the happy, healthy lives they deserve.
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American Pain Society
- The American Pain Society is a multidisciplinary community that brings together a diverse group of scientists, clinicians and other professionals to increase the knowledge of pain and transform public policy and clinical practice to reduce pain-related suffering. APS envisions a world where pain prevention and relief are available to all people.
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Children's Music Fund
- CMF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to provide musical instruments and music therapy to children, adolescents, and young adults with chronic conditions and life-altering illnesses, and to support research on the effects of music therapy.
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In the Face of Pain
- In the Face of Pain® is an online pain advocacy resource brought to you by Purdue Pharma L.P. This online pain advocacy toolkit provides pain-related information, statistics and resources to empower health care professionals, people with pain, caregivers, and other concerned individuals to take action and advocate for appropriate and effective pain care. See a video clip of Dr. Lonnie Zeltzer.
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Getting Through It Together
- Get Through it Together is a starting point for your journey with brain tumors. Whether you or a loved one is diagnosed with a brain tumor, Get Through it Together is here to make sure you have all the resources to get through it. I am relaying the struggles and accomplishments my father went through to help my sister survive to other patients. I may not have been the one to survive a brain tumor, but I can sure try to help other people survive theirs.
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TED Talk on Chronic Pain
- Dr. Elliot Krane talks about chronic pain. He gives insight into why chronic pain occurs in some people and not others and draws apt metaphors for what the children/teens are experiencing.
