Gilda's Club NYC Virtual Summer Fair

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An overview of GIlda's Club NYC free cancer virtual support programs.

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  1. So what is Gilda's Club?
  2. New York City?
  3. For those of you who don't know Gilda Radner with
  4. one of the original cast members of SNL in the
  5. 19 eighties, guilty was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
  6. Well, going through treatment, Gilda would travel back and forth
  7. between the East and the West Coast on the less
  8. coast she joined a cancer support community.
  9. Her wish was that there would be a cancer support
  10. community on the East Coast.
  11. Build a passed away in the late 19 eighties when
  12. she passed the way, killed his ex husband, Gene Wilder
  13. and her therapist, Joanna Bowl, came together and founded Gilda's
  14. Club, New York City.
  15. In her memory, Gilda's Club, New York City, opened its
  16. iconic red doors in 1995.
  17. We have a beautiful clubhouse in the West Village, which
  18. is easily accessible by public transportation.
  19. Right now, if you took over in 19 all of
  20. our programs are being held virtually on Zoom, which is
  21. easy to use by using desktop tablet and or phone.
  22. We provide free support to individuals impacted by cancer.
  23. We have programs for men, women, teens and Children.
  24. Our support programs are for those that are living with
  25. the cancer diagnosis, those that have a family member or
  26. friend going through cancer, and for those that have lost
  27. someone to cancer.
  28. We have various support groups, workshops and lectures which I'm
  29. going to review with you all.
  30. Today we have various different kinds of support groups.
  31. We have weekly groups for those that are currently going
  32. through treatment for cancer, for those that have a family
  33. member or friend going through treatment for cancer and for
  34. those that have lost someone to cancer.
  35. We also have weekly support groups for patients of Kings
  36. County Hospital in a Spanish speaking support group at Mount
  37. Sinai Hospital.
  38. We also have cancer specific groups such as a woman's
  39. gynecological group, Amends, prostate Cancer Support Group and a blood
  40. cancer support group.
  41. These all meet on a monthly basis.
  42. We also offer topic specific monthly groups.
  43. These include support groups for young adults, those that are
  44. post treatment.
  45. We also have monthly wellness group's caregiver groups and a
  46. living with loss support route.
  47. We're always coming up to with new ideas for a
  48. support group, so there's always more being added.
  49. Gilda's Club, New York City offers a variety of healthy
  50. lifestyle workshops that fall under three categories.
  51. These are body movement, stress reduction and creative expression.
  52. They are all our furred virtually on a daily basis
  53. Monday through Friday and are all being held virtually on
  54. Zoom at this time way have a variety of different
  55. body movement workshops.
  56. I'm not going to get into all of them, but
  57. this is just so you have a sense of the
  58. different varieties we have.
  59. We have various workshops which range from aerobic exercise, two
  60. different kinds of yoga.
  61. We also have a variety of different stress reduction workshops.
  62. We have different forms, such as meditation like sound meditation
  63. and movement meditation.
  64. Right now we're offering different kinds of creative expression workshops
  65. such as different writing and knitting a Crush, a Circle,
  66. the titles you see here all being held virtually at
  67. this time.
  68. When we need in person, we have more of a
  69. variety of different art workshops, educational lectures.
  70. Each month we host approximately 2 to 3 lectures where
  71. we bring in different experts to talk about different topics
  72. relating to cancer.
  73. The topics ranging categories from medical legal, financial cancer, specific
  74. issues and treatment and integrative care to give you some
  75. examples of the different topics we have had.
  76. We've had lecturers in the past year on managing lymphedema,
  77. medical cannabis use, life planning documents, applying for SS I,
  78. an SSD medical debt advice, managing side effects of aroma,
  79. taste inhibitors, cancer and neuropathy, natural remedies deny under side
  80. effects of treatment and the truth about sugar.
  81. Within the next few weeks, we have a lecture is
  82. planned on healthy non cooked meals, post cancer treatment, lifestyle
  83. and diet tips and cooking for chemo.
  84. We also recently held a town hall on Cove in
  85. 19 where members had the opportunity to ask a doctor
  86. specific questions in relation to cancer.
  87. All of her lectures are free of charge and are
  88. open to the public, as you can see here, or
  89. pictures over Dancel, which is where we usually host lectures
  90. at our club pass.
  91. In addition to providing support to adults, we also have
  92. virtual programs for Children and teens.
  93. We currently have no G nights, which are weekly support
  94. groups for those that have lost someone to cancer, and
  95. for those that have a loved one going through cancer,
  96. these groups are meeting virtually once a week for about
  97. 45 minutes.
  98. We will soon be integrating workshop components such as yoga,
  99. improv and specialized for activities.
  100. Teens Connect is our weekly support groups of teenagers who
  101. have a loved one going through cancer or who have
  102. lost someone to cancer.
  103. We are also planning this summer our first ever know
  104. G's at noon when we meet in person during the
  105. school breaks, we have week long programs called Club Sparkle,
  106. which is like a mini camp program for Children this
  107. summer. We're planning modified versions of this program for two
  108. weeks. Throughout the summer, the Children will meet for about
  109. an hour each day, and we'll have a variety of
  110. different workshops, games and fun.
  111. We have even more support programs to offer open toe
  112. options is when you could speak one on one to
  113. a trained 020 counselor who can help you develop a
  114. list of questions to help you communicate to your doctor
  115. and to help you make the treatment decision.
  116. This program is open to members and non members, so
  117. you know of someone who could benefit from this.
  118. Please feel should pretty to share this information with, um,
  119. we also provide individual short term bereavement counselling.
  120. This counseling program is for members who recently lost someone
  121. to cancer within those very first few weeks up to
  122. six counseling sessions air provided before transitioning into a weekly
  123. or monthly support route.
  124. This month we washed a monthly cove in 19 bereavement
  125. group. This group is for members who have lost someone
  126. took over in 19.
  127. Family focus is a one time meeting with a family
  128. with one of our social workers to help with communication
  129. amongst the family.
  130. In regards to cancer, we also can provide a team
  131. convene, which is a meeting with a member and their
  132. support network to help them develop for the weeks and
  133. months of tasks that they need assistance with well, going
  134. through treatment.
  135. It's very easy to become a member.
  136. Only have to do is give us a call at
  137. our main number.
  138. You can leave a message and a staff member will
  139. get back to you.
  140. You can also fill out a membership request for him,
  141. which is sample is here below, so you can see
  142. and this is on our website.
  143. This link will be shared at the end of the
  144. presentation today and will also beat now to you after
  145. the event.
  146. We will then schedule a meeting to customize your support
  147. plan. This will be the opportunity for us to get
  148. to know you better and see how we can help
  149. you in the best way possible.
  150. I'm now going to show you R P s A
  151. so you can hear more from our members about their
  152. Gilda's club experience.
  153. After the video, I will answer any questions.