ONLINE RESOURCES

Breast Cancer Online: How We Told Our Children
Breast Cancer Action Nova Scotia
www.bcans.ca/booklets/online.htm

What’s Happening to Mom?: Talking to Your Children About Breast Cancer
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
www.shopkomen.com/PDF/KOMEED040000.pdf

Helping Children Cope with Breast Cancer
Young Survival Coalition
youngsurvival.org/uploaded_files/tinymce/Fact%20Sheets/2011%20Helping%20Children%20Cope_FINAL.pdf

Talking to Young Children
Breastcancer.org
www.breastcancer.org/tips/telling_family/young_kids.jsp

How to Talk to Your Children
Breast Cancer Network of Strength
www.networkofstrength.org/support/relationships/children.php

Talking with Your Children about Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer Care
www.breastcancercare.org.uk/upload/pdf/talking_to_your_children_about_breast_cancer_0.pdf

Family Connections - A Resource for Parents with Cancer and Their Families
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
www.dana-farber.org/pat/support/familyconnections/default.html

Helping Children When a Family Member Has Cancer
CancerCare
www.cancercare.org/pdf/booklets/ccc_helping_children.pdf

Helping Children Understand Cancer: Talking to Your Kids about Your Diagnosis
CancerCare
www.cancercare.org/pdf/fact_sheets/fs_children_en.pdf

Helping Children When a Family Member Has Cancer
American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org/Treatment/ChildrenandCancer/HelpingChildrenWhenaFamilyMemberHasCancer/index

Talking with Your Children
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
www.cancer.net/patient/Coping/Relationships+and+Cancer/Talking+About+Cancer/Talking+With+Your+Children

How a Child Understands Cancer
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
www.cancer.net/patient/Coping/Relationships+and+Cancer/How+A+Child+Understands+Cancer

When a Parent Has Cancer: Keeping the Lines of Communication Open
Coping With Cancer
www.copingmag.com/cwc/index.php/wellness/wellness_article/when_a_parent_has_cancer

When Someone You Know Has Cancer: An Activity Booklet for Families
WGBH Educational Foundation
www.livestrong.org/pdfs/ARTHUR_LAF_ENGLISH-PDF

Talking to Older Children and Teens
Breastcancer.org
www.breastcancer.org/tips/telling_family/older_kids.jsp

Helping Teenagers When a Parent Has Cancer
CancerCare
www.cancercare.org/pdf/fact_sheets/fs_teenagers.pdf

Breast Cancer Moms
www.breastcancermoms.com

RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN

Cancer in My Family
BC Cancer Agency
www.cancerinmyfamily.ca

My Parents Cancer
National Breast Cancer Centre
www.myparentscancer.com

When Your Parent Has Cancer: A Guide for Teens
National Cancer Institute
www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/When-Your-Parent-Has-Cancer-Guide-for-Teens/PDF

BOOKS

What About My Kids?: A Guide for Parents Living with Breast Cancer, by Linda J. Corsini (Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation – Ontario Region, 2006) 

Available online at: www.cbcf.org/ontario/whataboutmykids

Reaching Out to Your Children When Cancer Comes to Your Family: A Guide for Parents, by June Slakov (BC Cancer Agency, 2007)

Available online at:  www.cancerinmyfamily.ca/Parent'sGuideMar18proof.pdf

When a Parent is Sick: Helping Parents Explain Serious Illness to Children, by Joan Hamilton (Pottersfield Press, 2007)

Helping Your Children Cope with Your Cancer: A Guide for Parents and Families (2nd ed.), by Peter Van Dernoot (Hatherleigh Press, 2006)

Cancer in the family: Helping Children Cope with a Parent’s Illness, by Susan Heiney (American Cancer Society, 2001)

Raising an Emotionally Healthy Child When a Parent is Sick, by Paula K. Rauch and Anna C. Muriel (McGraw–Hill, 2006)

VIDEO

Talking About Your Cancer: A Parent's Guide to Helping Children Cope (Fox Chase Cancer Center, 1996)

View online at www.fccc.edu/patients/support/children.html

Will Mom Be OK?: Families Talk About Breast Cancer (Bosom Buddies, 2003)

Order online from www.bosombuddies.org

We Can Cope: When a Parent Has Cancer (Inflexxion, 2002)
Order online from: www.wecancope.com