This page provides resources which have been submitted by other organizations.  These resources are in no way endorsed by Friends' Health Connection.  It is up to you to research these listings to ensure their validity and usefulness.  Further, these links are in no way intended to be considered a source for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.  Decisions about the best choices and medical treatments should be made in consultation with your personal health care providers.

• Patient Advocate Foundation

The Patient Advocate Foundation is a national non-profit organization that seeks to safeguard patients through effective mediation assuring access to care, maintenance of employment and preservation of their financial stability relative to their diagnosis of life threatening or debilitating diseases.

700 Thimble Shoals Blvd   
Suite 200
  Newport News, VA 23606
   
   Phone: (800) 532-5274
  Fax: (757) 873-8999

help@patientadvocate.org

• Fall In Action: National Program Office

Faith in Action is an interfaith volunteer caregiving initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Local Faith in Action programs bring together volunteers from many faiths to work together to care for their neighbors who have long-term health needs.  Volunteers help to pick up groceries, run errands, provide rides to doctor appointments, offer friendly visits, help to pay bills.

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• Strength for Caring

Strength for Caring is an online resource and community for family caregivers. Strength for Caring helps family caregivers take care of their loved ones and themselves. Strength for Caring is part of The Caregiver Initiative, created by Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Company, a Division of Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc.  Strength for Caring works with caregiving organizations across the country.

www.strenghtforcaring.com

• Lotsa Helping Hands

Lotsa Helping Hands Helps communities of caregivers stay organized with their tasks so they can better help chronically ill patients who they love. It offers an easy-to-use, private group calendar, specifically designed for organizing helpers.  Friends and loved ones can pitch in with meals delivery, rides, and other tasks necessary for life to run smoothly during times of medical crisis, end-of-life caring, or family caregiver exhaustion. It's also a place to keep these 'circles of community' informed with status updates, photo galleries, message boards, and more.

  365 Boston Post Road, Suite 157
  Sudbury, MA 01776

www.lotsahelpinghands.com

• Family Caregiver Alliance

Founded in 1977, Family Caregiver Alliance was the first community-based nonprofit organization in the country to address the needs of families and friends providing long-term care at home. FCA  now offers programs at national, state and local levels to support and sustain caregivers.

180 Montgomery St, Ste 1100

San Francisco, CA 94104

Phone: (415) 434.3388 or (800) 445.8106

www.caregiver.org

• Dating4Disabled.com

Dating4Disabled.com is an online community which offers the opportunity for people with disabilities to share, connect and just be heard. Make friends, find romance, and share resources with people from all over the world.  Dating4disabled.com welcomes devotees and able-bodied members on condition that they want to meet people with disabilities and are committed to respecting all of members.

• ABILITYjobs

The goal of ABILITY Jobs is to enable people with disabilities to enhance their professional lives by providing a dedicated system for finding employment. By posting job opportunities, employers not only exhibit an open door policy but also demonstrate their responsiveness to affirmative action by genuinely recruiting qualified persons with disabilities.

• Spontaneous Drawings

Spontaneous Drawings Creative Expression is a service of Exceptional Cancer Patients (ECap), a program for cancer patients started by the renowned and much loved Dr. Bernie Siegel.  You can mail Bernie your personal drawings and he will take time to review them.  He will then email you his interpretations.  The goal is to help you discover the insights that can aid in your healing process. 

www.ecap-online.org/artwork.htm

The National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations is an alliance of professional associations dedicated to the advancement of the arts as therapeutic modalities. NCCATA represents over 15,000 individual members of six creative arts therapies associations nationwide.

c/o AMTA

8455 Colesville Rd.

Ste. 1000

Silver Spring MD, 20910

www.nccata.org/

Society for the Arts in Healthcare

2437 15th St., NW

Washington, DC 20009

Phone: (202) 299-9770 

  www.thesah.org

• Very Special Arts

VSA Arts is an international, nonprofit organization founded in 1974 by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create a society where all people with disabilities learn through, participate in and enjoy the arts. 

818 Connecticut Ave., NW
Suite 600
Washington, D.C. 20006

Suite 600
(202) 628-2800 Voice
(800) 933-8721 Toll Free
(202) 737-0645 TDD
www.vsarts.org/

• American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA)

Founded in 1966, the American Dance Therapy Association works to establish and maintain high standards of professional education and competence in the field of dance/movement therapy. 

10632 Little Patuxent Parkway

Suite 108

Columbia, MD 21044

(410) 997-4040  
www.adta.org

The mission of the American Music Therapy Association is to advance

public awareness of the benefits of music therapy and increase access
to quality music therapy services.

8455 Colesville Road, Suite 1000

Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA

(301) 589-3300

www.musictherapy.org

For the past 27 years, NAPT members have forged a community of healers and lovers of words and language.

• Medical Tees
  
  This web site sells humorous and thoughtful apparel and merchandise for the irreverent patient
  
  

  www.MedTees.com
  

• Chronique Couture

This is an online boutique that sells fashionable and sassy accessories and products specially designed for those living with chronic illness.  

• Sun Precautions

This site sells sun-protective fashion for people living with lupus and other chronic illness that cause sensitivity to the sun's ultraviolet rays.

• Women's Heart Foundation 

Women's Heart Foundation, a nonprofit organization, is a coalition of executive nurses, civic leaders, community health directors, hospitals, women's heart centers, partners, providers and corporate sponsors responding to the health crisis of women's heart disease and the urgent need for prevention programs. WHF advocates for women and supports early intervention and excellence of care of women.