Facilitators for the support groups are students who go through about nine hours of training. Facilitators focus on listening and leadership skills, interpersonal skills, crisis intervention, available resources, loss and crisis issues, and topics specific to the group's members. Sheehan said the first group meeting is an introduction. After that, the content of each meeting is determined by the group. That is why a college student peer ed.
Support groups meet for an hour once a week for six to eight weeks.
And it's nice to know there are people ready to help. Stevens said that she sees people concerned with many different types of cancer.