To learn more about using the Internet check out our Guide to Internet Use . Encourage Online Encourage Online strives to provide support to youth with chronic or life-threatening illness. Our hope is that Encourage Online will provide a forum for youth to share their experiences living with a chronic illness in individual and group settings. Teens would benefit from listening to the experiences of others and would be able to receive advice, counsel, and direction from their peers who closely understand what they are experiencing. We hope that online support will be available to all teens and young adults with an illness, and especially hope to reach youth who are not mobile because of their illness, provide an important diversion for youth who are seriously ill, and reach youth who have not yet known or who find it difficult to make connections to other youth with illness.
Internet access is a privilege.
It is up to individual participants to follow the rules and guidelines. All areas of Encourage Online are monitored, even in areas where program staff do not directly participate. Encourage reserves the right to restrict access to anyone who participates. To learn more about the research for Encourage Online click here to view our Bibliography . A Program for Teens with Chronic Illness About Encourage.