Archive for the ‘Online Support Groups’ Category

June 21st, 2007 By Jeremy Lundberg Comments Off

New Social Networking Website for Cancer Patients and Caregivers Launched

After months of intensive collaboration with our friends at The Wellness Community, I am please to announce the launch of The Virtual Wellness Community (http://www.thewellnesscommunity.org). The re-designed Website provides cancer patients and caregivers with powerful social networking tools to exchange information and gain support as they cope with cancer.

Key features include community-driven discussion forums, professionally-moderated online support groups, media sharing, chat, and educational resources. Our creative design team embraced TWC’s tag line of “Support. Education. Hope.” to create an intuitive, user-friendly navigation for the site. On the technology side, our team leveraged open source technologies (e.g., PHP, MySQL) and Adobe Flash to keep development costs low and performance and accessibility high.

The Virtual Wellness Community helps approximately 125,000 online visitors annually.

April 10th, 2007 By Jeremy Lundberg Comments Off

CNN Highlights Benefits of Cancer Social Networking and Support Website

Since 2001, DLC Solutions has partnered with The Wellness Community, an international not-for-profit dedicated to providing free cancer support and education services, to produce The Virtual Wellness Community. This pioneering Web site provides free, professionally-led online support groups for teens and adults with cancer and their loved ones. CNN recently highlighted the benefits of The Virtual Wellness Community during an interview with a member of one of the online support groups. To date, the Web site has helped thousands of people affected by cancer and the online support groups have been shown to be as effective as in-person cancer support groups in key areas. If you know of anyone that may benefit from TWC’s programs, please forward this on to them.

You can see the video interview at: http://www.dlc-solutions.com/