Our Impact is Greater Because of Our Partners
Our partnerships have been carefully curated over several years and have created a proven track record of working together collaboratively to accomplish what can not be done alone. Each partnership is developed over time with trust, accountability, and integrity for the work we do together and our impact on the greater childhood cancer community.
Data For The Common Good | D4CG
Mission | Dedicated to building communities, platforms, and ecosystems that maximize the potential of data to drive discovery and improve human health. Headquartered in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago, their team of experts works with collaborators all over the world to connect and share useful, high-quality data between institutions, groups, and countries to increase opportunities for discovery.
How We Work Together | Momcology is partnering with Data for the Common Good on the C-SHARP (Cancer Survivorship Health and Records Data) Study. This study is funded by Team Bright Side and Hyundai Hope on Wheels to better understand the experiences of pediatric cancer survivors and to develop improvements to survivorship care.
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
How We Work Together | Momcology and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have been partners in psychosocial support since 2017. Connections: Pediatric Cancer Support is co-owned and produced intellectual property by CHOP & Momcology. We work together to create the program curriculum and licensing agreements for additional partner sites are facilitated by the CHOP legal department. Connections program marketing materials are developed internally at CHOP.
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University of Minnesota Medical School
How We Work Together | Momcology works with the Division of Pediatric Epidemiology and Clinical Research at the University of Minnesota (UMN) on our database and caregiver experience repository. This department’s mission is to improve the health of children through research in the etiology, prevention, treatment, and outcomes of childhood diseases. Our REDCap database is housed at the UMN and data scientists from UMN have donated their time to the upkeep and expansion of this work to connect Momcology families to patient-engaged research opportunities.
Children’s Cancer Research Fund
Mission | To support the research of bright scientists across the country whose ideas can make the greatest impact for children fighting cancer. To fund resources and programs that help kids and families as they navigate the difficult experience of cancer treatment and survivorship.
How We Work Together | Children’s Cancer Research Fund (CCRF) was the first funder of Momcology’s support programs including the expansion of Momcology’s restorative retreats across the country. We have also worked together to fund childhood cancer research through Children’s Oncology Group (COG) and published a collaborative blog series by caregivers for caregivers called Heart to Heart.
CCRF Family Support Programs
The Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation
Mission | Dedicated to increasing childhood cancer awareness, education, advocacy, research and psychosocial support services to children, their families, and medical personnel.
How We Work Together | Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation and Momcology have worked together on an implementation study for the Psychosocial Standards of Care for Children with Cancer and their families. These historic evidence-based standards define what children with cancer and their families must receive to effectively support their psychosocial needs from the time of diagnosis, through survivorship, or end-of-life and bereavement care.
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Nationwide Children’s Hospital
How We Work Together | Momcology and Nationwide Children’s have collaborated on Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) projects, presentations at professional meetings, sponsored webinars, advisory boards, and ongoing partnerships in consulting and recruitment initiatives to accelerate pediatric cancer patient family care. Recently a collaborative publication in Pediatric Blood & Cancer received a most downloaded and cited paper award from PBC.
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Nemours Children’s Health
How We Work Together | Momcology and Nemours Children’s Health have collaborated on Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) projects, advisory boards, and ongoing partnerships in consulting and recruitment initiatives to accelerate pediatric cancer patient family care. Past projects include an AYA Study about the transition off cancer treatment and an implementation study for the Psychosocial Standards of Care for children diagnosed with cancer and their families called iSTEPPP.
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The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation
Mission | To change the lives of children with cancer through funding impactful research, raising awareness, supporting families and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer.
How We Work Together | Momcology refers families needing financial assistance to B+ Foundation through their hospital social workers. B+ Foundation has supported the iSTEPPP psychosocial care study and has advised on the development of our Dadcology program.
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