Judy Stevens, R.N., a community health nurse at the office of health education and promotion at Health Services, organizes and oversees the Cancer Support Network. Support groups are safe environments in which members help each other identify and discuss problems in their lives.
Members work together to generate ideas and options to assist each other in making changes.
Sheehan, a UNH senior, is entering his second semester of co-facilitating a cancer support network group for people who have lost someone to cancer. The first week of his freshman year, Sheehan lost his mother to cancer. He added that this form of peer group is different, though. Everyone is equal. We don't dominate the group.