I found COLONTOWN (a PALTOWN program) back in 2019, after being diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer at age 36. Up until that moment, I was ruled by panic and fear and confusion. COLONTOWN provided education that empowered me as a patient, support to navigate the emotional toll of cancer diagnosis/treatment, and hope that there were still good things to come.
A year later, I participated in another program offered by PALTOWN: Empowered Patient Leaders (EPL.) I came away from that workshop with a greater depth of disease education and support group leadership skills. As a volunteer EPL, I now host groups in COLONTOWN and have found a lot of purpose in my disease through that work.
I sincerely believe I owe my life and the quality of that life to PALTOWN and its programs.
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Cancer, Human Service Organizations, Human Services
Mission: Empowering patients and caregivers by creating disease-specific communities to address information needs and social isolation through training, technology, and developing purpose-driven community leadership.
Results: Have more than doubled the size of the community to over 6,000 colorectal patients in caregivers in the U.S. and internationally.
Target demographics: Colorectal Cancer Patients and Caregivers
Direct beneficiaries per year: Over 6,000 colorectal cancer patients and caregivers
Geographic areas served: U.S.
Programs: Empowering patients and caregivers by creating disease-specific communities to address information needs and social isolation through training, technology, and developing purpose-driven community leadership. Today in our COLONTOWN community, we support more than 6,000 colorectal cancer patients and caregivers in over 120 private Facebook neighborhoods dealing with every age and stage of colorectal cancer. We established new groups to serve more community members, including several focused on providing clinical trials information to patients seeking treatment options beyond standard care. We launched COLONTOWN University dedicated to supporting patient education resources and tools around diagnostic and surveillance testing, Clinical Trials, and precision medicine.