Social Services

At Integrated Community Oncology Network, offering comprehensive health care to our patients is our top priority. In addition to treating a patient’s physical disease, we provide Oncology Social Workers to assist patients and their families with the emotional and practical challenges of dealing with cancer or other life threatening illnesses. Oncology Social Workers are licensed mental health professionals. In partnership with our physicians, they provide emotional and financial support services from the point of diagnosis, throughout the treatment process. Our goal is to help you and your family members prevent, control and manage the emotional stresses in your lives, especially those involved with receiving a diagnosis of cancer and having the necessary treatment.

Our supportive staff of highly trained and certified individuals are able to assist you and your family members in making decisions that help you meet your needs and ultimately, will aid in your healing process. Support services offered at each practice include individual, family and group counseling, financial counseling including information about community, state and federal resources and assistance programs, together with other helpful data about wigs, transportation and prescription assistance programs.

• Have you ever wondered if a professional counselor could help you work through personal or family conflict?
• Do you need assistance with ilness related treatment choices or decision-making?
• Is serious illness affecting your ability to meet the needs of your family?
• re you worried about how illness in the family is affecting your children?
• Are you a spouse or loved one of someone who is seriously ill and wanting someone to talk to about your situation?
• Are you having difficulty managing the financial/emotional strains of caring for a disabled person
• Does depression or anxiety interrupt normal sleeping/eating habits?
• Do you or someone you know have a substance abuse problem?
• Are you frustrated by some aspect of your health care environment

If you answered “YES” to any of the questions above, you might benefit from meeting with one of our social services representatives. For more information, or to schedule an appointment with the social worker assigned to your practice, please ask a member of your medical team.

Our Social Workers

Support Groups

Currently, we have cancer patient support groups at the following practice locations. Feel free to join any of the meetings, even if you are not a patient at the practice where the sessions are held. In the near future, we will be adding new sites to our list of support group so please feel free to check the web site periodically for updated information. From time to time, we will also offer Caregiver Support Seminars.

Orange Park:
Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Orange Park Cancer Center located at 2161 Kingley Avenue. For more information, please contact Allison Winfrey at 538-3666.

Southside:

Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm at the Southside Cancer Center located at 5742 Booth Road. For more information, please contact Allison Winfrey at 538-3666.

Web Sites that may be of interest to our patients and their families