Cancer Support Community
Liberty Mutual Volunteers Lend A Hand At Cancer Support Community
I just wrapped a contest for World Choir Games tickets where people wrote to me about what in Cincinnati makes their hearts ‘sing’. There are so many good things in our region and it was really fun hearing what people had to say. I may have to ask that question more often.
I wanted to share what Amanda Baker of the Cancer Support Community of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky shared in her submission…
Liberty Mutual celebrated their 100 Year Anniversary with “Serve With Liberty” – a 2-day global service project that took place on June 21 and 22. Cancer Support Community was grateful to be one of the local sites selected by the Fairfield Liberty Mutual office for volunteer projects at CSC’s Lynn Stern Center in Blue Ash. Congratulations on 100 years and thank you, Liberty Mutual!
Despite the heat, a group of 20 Liberty Mutual associates worked outside for nearly 5 hours on June 21 and made an AMAZING impact on the landscaping and grounds at The Lynn Stern Center. Flowers were planted, shrubs trimmed, beds weeded and cleaned out, windows washed, the hillside by the dumpster cleared and seeded, and more.
Then on June 22 another 15 member Liberty Mutual volunteer group came to clean the inside of our facility. They cleaned the office spaces as well as the participant areas, dusted every surface, organized our books and kitchen, washed all of the inside windows and cleaned the blinds.
We couldn’t be happier with all the help we received from the Liberty Mutual volunteers over the 2-day service project. The Lynn Stern Center looks wonderful and we hope their volunteers will come back next year to celebrate 101 years!
Now that’s a great reason to sing!
Nonprofit spotlight – Wellness Community Has A New Name
Cancer. There probably are few words that inflict so much fear in a person…fear of the unknown and of the treatments that lie ahead and all of the implications that go along with them.
We’re so lucky in Greater Cincinnati to have an organization like the Wellness Community that is all about ensuring those whose lives have been impacted by cancer don’t have to face it alone.
The agency provides professionally led support groups, individual counseling, educational workshops, nutrition and exercise programs, and stress reduction classes designed to complement conventional medical care. All programs are available at no charge, with each individual participant choosing which activities to attend. Each month approximately 150 programs are offered in a comfortable, home-like environment at the Lynn Stern Center in Blue Ash and a Northern Kentucky facility in Ft. Wright, as well as partner locations in Avondale, Clifton, downtown, and Western Hills. In 2010, the organization recorded nearly 16,000 participant visits.
Now the Wellness Community has a new name – Cancer Support Community – Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky (CSC) – that reestablishes its identity with its parent organization and better communicates its mission.
“More than 14,000 people in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky are diagnosed each year and research shows that medical care alone does not adequately address the emotional, social, spiritual, or financial challenges associated with the disease,” said Executive Director Rick Bryan.
Staff members preview the new name. (L to R) Molly Bomkamp (Madeira), Bonnie Crawford (Wyoming), Kelly Schoen (Madeira), Rick Bryan (Blue Ash), Gail Laule (Sycamore Townhip), and Molli Monk (Montgomery)
