Community contains the medicine of connection. Do you need tools to better connect with community? Some of these resources help you connect online and more directly with people giving help and heart through your journey. Even find ways to create your own website where you can ask for help and perhaps share updates about your health and healing. Family and friends can then better organize to give you support you really need.
CarePages
Create websites as free patient blogs that connect friends and family during a health challenge.
CaringBridge
Create a free personal website to post your story, share updates, and allow your community to post messages in one place.
Friend For Life
A network of cancer survivors and caregivers who provide compassionate, one-on-one support to others diagnosed with cancer, and to their loved ones. Friend for Life matches a trained volunteer who has experienced a form of cancer and/or treatment that is similar to another person.
GiveForward
Empowers friends and family to provide emotional and financial support to loved ones while they navigate a medical crisis. A GiveForward page makes fundraising for out-of-pocket expenses like co-pays, travel and lodging, and alternative treatments easy.
Human Tribe Project
A free website that allows friends and family to come together, show support and raise money for a loved one during a health crisis. It was founded upon the premise that all people belong to a larger Tribe comprised of their loved ones and acquaintances, and that this Tribe can be a powerful resource when one of its members is in need.
I'm Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation
The nation's largest support community for the next generation of patients, survivors, and caregivers between 15-40 offers an educational website, online forum, events, and a radio show.
Inspire
Join one or more than 50 groups for people with cancer and their caregivers, post questions and comments on the discussion boards, and connect with other group members.
Know Cancer
Provides an online social network through a blog, forum, and ask the experts section along with other educational resources.
LifeLinkage
A social networking site for people with cancer.
Lotsa Helping Hands
Create a free of charge, private, web-based community to organize family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues—a family's circles of community—during times of need. Coordinate activities and manage volunteers with our intuitive group calendar. Communicate and share information using announcements, messages boards, and photos.
MedGift
A unique gift registry that also combines the benefits of social media, MedGift provides a community of support for patients and an online listing of a patient’s specific Needs, Wants and Wishes during treatment and recovery, similar to any other gift registry. In addition to providing a gift registry for patients, MedGift also creates an online community through robust social media capabilities. Patients and their loved ones can share updates on their health and care, celebrate daily victories and offer comfort to help relieve the challenges that come with illness and recovery.
My Cancer Place
A social networking site for people with cancer.
My Crazy Sexy Life
A vibrant online community created by Kris Carr and a companion site to Crazy Sexy Life for wellness warriors from around the world to meet, share, and support each other in the pursuit of health, spiritual wealth, and happiness with many conversations related to the cancer journey.
My Hope Space
Create your own online space with your profile, photos, blog, events, groups with different access levels, invitations, a personal email account, chat and instant messenger, and more.
MyLifeLine
Create free personal websites to share updates, receive messages in one place, organize a calendar from doctor's appointments to requests for help with tasks, post photos, and requests for donations from your community.
Upopolis
A private social network that connect young hospital patients to their families, friends, and school network. Kids can use Upopolis to build a profile, create a blog to stay connected with others, learn more about their conditions and treatments with kid-friendly medical information, keep up with schoolwork away from classes, and look up kids around them in the hospital to share their experiences.
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