2007 Grand Opening of The Cancer Support Center in Mokena was a success!

The Cancer Support Center family hosted a ribbon-cutting and open house Friday, Feb. 2, 2007, from 4 to 6 p.m. at 19250 Everett Lane in Mokena to celebrate the first satellite of the Jennifer S. Fallick Cancer Support Center. Stop by to see our new space and hear all about our programs and services now being offered in Mokena. Please call (708) 798-9171 or (708) 478-3529.

Directions: From I-80, exit South on LaGrange Road to west/right on 191st Street to first left/south on Everett Lane. Go past Great Lakes Bank, Mr. Benny's, and you'll see an office building on the west/right side of the street. Our address is 19250 Everett Lane. We're on the first floor.

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From The Center's Winter 2006 newsletter: Opening a New Door of Support in Mokena

“It will only be 5 minutes from my home,” said Cindi Simpson, a Mokena resident and a two-year breast cancer survivor. She and her children have used our services, and they are thrilled with the news of the Center’s sattelite location opening nearby. She spoke about how this expansion of our services will benefit her family and others.

“Unfortunately, the need for a cancer support center is growing by leaps and bounds. My children and I have fully used services in Homewood. With the hectic schedules of children today, driving additional lengths can add more stress to an already unmanageable schedule. Women like me, who juggle raising their kids while going through treatment, don’t have additional time to spend sitting in traffic. A Mokena facility will have greater accessibility: more families will be able to participate in programs and use the Center’s resources. The Southwest area greatly needs this facility. Mokena and the surrounding areas are booming with growth – more families will be moving in as more schools are built. A higher population will unfortunately mean a larger number of people needing these services. It is nice to know the Cancer Support Center will be available to those in need. I look forward to having this Center close so that we can fully utilize it.”

As a community partner, Ingalls Health System has provided a generous donation to help us realize this dream. Seeing the Center as an extension of the services available to cancer survivors and their families, Ingalls is demonstrating their commitment to the work that we do. In an effort to provide the full continuum of care to its patients, Ingalls will have a nurse available in this new site to provide cancer screenings and education.

Later this month, we will open a second home in southwest suburban Mokena at 19250 Everett Lane. Our new space, shown above, is on the ground floor of this building. The staff and Board of Directors for the Center are excited to announce the opportunity to provide our free counseling and wellness programs in a new space devoted to our work. The idea to open a second site came from feedback received through surveys from our participants over the last few years. While people responded that they would be willing to travel as much as 30 miles or 40 minutes to receive our services, the majority of people we serve can only realistically drive 15 to 20 minutes from home without adding undo stress to an already challenging cancer experience. This does NOT mean we are leaving Homewood.

We have been dedicated to Homewood for more than 14 years and have no desire to leave. The community support we receive makes our free services possible. By adding a second location, we feel that we can reach survivors and their families in other communities who do not have immediate access to the programs we offer.

In addition to providing closer services to our current participants, we hope that with outreach efforts we can be a new source of healing and support to families who don’t know about our Center. We will be looking for community support through new volunteers and the support of local businesses to help us offer our free services. It has been the efforts of thousands of people and the resources of millions of dollars to offer the level of care we provide in Homewood – and it has taken more than 14 years to get where we are today. We know that this is a formative time for us in Mokena, but we are full of hope about the good work we can do for people with cancer and their families.

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