UT Southwestern Medical Center has a caring staff of medical professionals who are committed to enhancing patients’ quality of life, as well as meeting the needs of patients’ families. Our staff can direct them to a variety of informative and enriching support groups and other resources, which can be tailored to meet a specific situation.
At UT Southwestern, excellence in patient care includes pointing the way to resources patients and their families may not be familiar with, but which have proved invaluable to others. We trust these services will assist patients on the road to healing and improved health.
Support Groups
WINGS: Women in New Growing Situations
This support group is for women with any cancer diagnosis. Facilitated by Angela Herbrich, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, it meets in the third floor Breast Center Library in the Seay Building on the fourth Monday of every month at 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Husbands and Partners of Women With Cancer
This support group is available for husbands, or partners, of women with any cancer diagnosis. It meets in the second floor conference room NC2.406 in the Seay Building on the first and third Tuesdays of every month at 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Dialogue Support Group
The Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center’s psychologist, Noelle McDonald, Ph.D. and oncology social worker Leslie Fetchen, L.M.S.W. offer this support group for anyone diagnosed with cancer, as well as their caregivers and families. Open to everyone, the group meets in the second floor conference room NC2.406 of the Seay Building on Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Social Services
Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
Social workers and case managers provide a wide variety of valuable inpatient and outpatient services, including developing a total plan of care. Our social workers perform a comprehensive assessment of needs to determine the extent of services required for care and support, including providing patient and family counseling and coordinating with community providers for transportation, supplies, medication, home health services and financial needs. Social workers also provide arrangements for dietitians to offer nutritional screening and counseling, as well as assist patients in UT Southwestern’s genetic counseling and risk assessment program.
Moncrief Cancer Resources
An affiliate of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern, this nonprofit, community-based organization provides support services to cancer patients and their families in Tarrant County and surrounding areas. Social services, nutritional services, an oncology patient navigator and a transportation program are among the offerings.
Web Sites
Bariatric Surgery
American Society for Bariatric Surgery
The American Society for Bariatric Surgery strives to raise professional and public awareness about severe obesity and bariatric surgery through education and obesity research, and to support physician and allied health research and public health projects.
Breast Surgery
ACS Reach to Recovery
For more than 30 years, the American Cancer Society Reach to Recovery program has helped both men and women cope with their breast cancer.
American Breast Cancer Foundation
The American Breast Cancer Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a fighting chance to every life threatened by breast cancer regardless of age, race, sex or financial challenge through screening-assistance programs, research, and support for breast cancer patients and their families.
BreastCancer.org
BreastCancer.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the most reliable, complete and up-to-date information about breast cancer and considers itself to be the “lifeline” to the best medical information about breast cancer.
Look Good, Feel Better
Founded in 1989, Look Good, Feel Better is a free, nonmedical, brand-neutral, national public-service program supported by corporations to help women offset appearance-related changes from cancer treatment.
National Breast Cancer Foundation
The National Breast Cancer Foundation’s mission is to save lives by increasing awareness of breast cancer and by providing mammograms for the needy. Founded by Janelle Hail, herself a breast cancer survivor of 25 years, the National Breast Cancer Foundation brings compassion, understanding and inspiration through public education programs across the U.S.
Susan G Komen Foundation
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was founded in 1982 on a promise made between two sisters – Susan Goodman Komen and Nancy Goodman Brinker. More than 20 years later, the Komen Foundation is a global leader in the fight against breast cancer, working through a network of U.S. and international affiliates and events, such as the Komen Race for the Cure.
Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization
The mission of the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization is to ensure, through information, empowerment and peer support, that no one faces breast cancer alone.
Burn, Trauma and Critical Care
American Burn Association
The American Burn Association works toward the goal of improving the lives of burn patients, by promoting research, creating training courses, and offering safety and burn awareness materials.
American Trauma Society
Trauma patients and their families can learn more about the Trauma Survivor Network, which provides resources to help patients on the road to recovery.
Colorectal Surgery and Cancer
Colon Cancer Alliance
The Colon Cancer Alliance (CCA) is an organization of colon and rectal cancer survivors, their families, caregivers, people genetically predisposed to the disease and the medical community.
Colon Cancer Network
The Colorectal Cancer Network is survivors and their loved ones uniting to build a support network, to advocate for awareness, screening and early detection programs, and to encourage legislative action.
Endocrine Surgery
American Thyroid Association
The association is dedicated to promoting scientific and public understanding of the biology of the thyroid gland and its disorders, so as to improve methods for prevention, diagnosis and management.
Endocrine Disorders
This Web site contains information about thyroid, parathyroid and other endocrine disorders.
Endocrine Society
This organization works to foster a greater understanding of endocrinology among the public and practitioners of complementary medical disciplines.
General GI Surgery
Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc.
This organization offers support and education for people affected by digestive motility disorders.
IBS Self Help and Support Group
The IBS Self Help and Support Group’s purpose is to provide information about irritable bowel syndrome.
Life Raft Group
This international support organization is for people with gastrointestinal tumors.
Lone Star Celiac Support Group
The Lone Star Celiac Support Groups is a nonprofit organization devoted to information dissemination and sharing to help those who have celiac disease cope with this life-changing disease.
Pediatric Surgery
American Academy of Pediatrics
This physicians' organization provides general information about child health and guidelines for specific pediatric issues.
Sarcoma/Melanoma
James A. Schlipmann Melanoma Cancer Foundation
The purpose of the James A. Schlipmann Melanoma Cancer Foundation is to provide support to clinical trials and research studies, and to advance education, awareness, screenings and treatment to eventually eradicate melanoma cancer.
Melanoma International Foundation
The foundation provides hope and guidance to melanoma patients and families and supports the most effective programs for the prevention, early detection and treatment of melanoma.
Melanoma Research Foundation
The Melanoma Research Foundation supports scientific research directed at finding effective treatments and ultimately a cure for malignant melanoma.
The Sarcoma Alliance
This organization urges patients and their loved ones to better cope with sarcoma by sharing their experiences with others dealing with the same diagnosis.
Skin Cancer Foundation
The Skin Cancer Foundation is the only national and international organization that is concerned exclusively with the world's most common malignancy – cancer of the skin.
Upper GI Tumors
Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc.
This organization offers support and education for people affected by digestive motility disorders.
IBS Self Help and Support Group
The IBS Self Help and Support Group’s purpose is to provide information about irritable bowel syndrome.
Life Raft Group
This international support organization is for people with gastrointestinal tumors.
Lone Star Celiac Support Group
The Lone Star Celiac Support Groups is a nonprofit organization devoted to information dissemination and sharing to help those who have celiac disease cope with this life-changing disease.
