Cancer Survivorship 101: Parenting with Cancer

Parenting with Cancer by Julie Berrett-Abebe, PhD, LICSW
Due to the quarantine, we had to cancel our annual in-person Cancer Survivorship 101 event that was planned for June, 2020. Instead, we created a series of video lectures presented here on our website and our KZbin page featuring the speakers that were to be highlighted at the event.
Julie Berrett-Abebe, PhD, LICSW is a social work researcher, educator, and practitioner with expertise in cancer and aging as well as interprofessional practice and education. Julie practiced clinically as an oncology social worker at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she also supervised and lectured in the student training program. With funding from the American Cancer Society, Julie completed a dissertation on interprofessional education and addressing cancer survivors’ unmet psychosocial needs. She graduated with a PhD from Simmons University in 2017. Julie is currently an Assistant Professor in the Social Work Department at Westfield State University, where she is also the training coordinator for a HRSA workforce development grant to train social workers in integrated health care. In fall 2020, Julie will be transitioning to an Assistant Professor appointment at Fairfield University.
Survivor Journeys has been a non-profit organization since March, 2015. Its origins, began during the year-long medical quarantine Dr Jay Burton lived through after his stem cell transplant for Acute Myeloid Leukemia which ended in late October 2011. Dr Burton’s emotional and social support experiences prompted speaking engagements about cancer survivorship. The community interest generated from these talks, as well as the lack of emotional and support services for cancer survivors in our region, led to the creation of Survivor Journeys. Learn more at survivorourneys.org