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Center of Mendocino County is a grassroots organization whose
mission is to improve the quality of life for those in Mendocino
County faced with cancer, their families, and their friends by
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So that we may
better serve Mendocino County residents, we have two offices.
Our Ukiah Office is located at
590 S. Dora Street.
Hours are 9-5, Monday through Friday. We can be reached at
707.467.3828 or by email at ukiah@crcmendocino.org.
Our Main Office is located
at 45040 Calpella Street in Mendocino.
Hours are 9-4, Monday through Friday. We can be reached at
707.937.3833 or 800.449.6483 or by email at info@crcmendocino.org.
All of our services are free of charge.
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 CRCMC's Founding Board Members
Front row (bottom left to right):
Laoma Yaski, Sue Winn
Top row (left to right):
Mary Bradish,Sara O'Donnell, Margaret Fox
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Nice Alterman
Margaret Fox
Nancy Puder
Paula Cohen
Marlene Freedman
Franco Zacchia |
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Sara O'Donnell
Executive Director |
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Shelley Fields
Operations Manager
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Nancy Johnson
Support Services
Manager
Inland Office |
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Mimi Johnson
Patient Navigator |
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Rita Martinez
Support Services Manager
Coast Office |
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Shelley Ovesen
Patient Navigator & Outreach |
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We have an Advisory Board, many of whom
are members of the medical community:
Steven J. Antler, Attorney
Randall Bancroft, DC
Barbara Birchard
Barbara A. Brenner www.bcaction.org
Joan Bonnar, PhD
Eula Kroninger
Issac Cohen, LAc
Claudia Crosetti
Jeremy R. Geffen, MD
Richard Green, CPA
Francine Halberg, MD
Russell Hardy, MD
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- Gayle Heiss
- Larry Heiss, MD
- Rabbi Margaret Holub
- Sharon Hunter, RN, FNP
- Marty Johnson, MFCC
- J. Redwing Keyssar, RN, OCN
- Jan Kirsch, MD
- Alan Mitchell Kramer, MD
- Carol Mordhorst
- Nancy Oster www.silcom.com/~noster/wcindex.html
- Lucresha Renteria
- Carla Stange, CNM, FNP
- Pat Sweeney, RN, OCN
- Michele Tellier, RN, FNP
- Marvin Trotter, MD
- Sue Winn
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Around a table in a house in the
woods, the first ideas sprang forth to provide our communities
with access to cancer-related services. We were women living
with cancer who had sought information and resources and found
there was no one place to go to locally. With this very real
need in mind, we worked hard, formed a board and opened our doors
in the summer of 1995 in an alley way in a room off a garage.
We became the first non facility- based cancer resource center
from Marin County to the California-Oregon border.
Today, over eleven remarkable years later, CRCMC has become a central, depended-upon,
absolutely essential part of our rural community, not only for people who
have cancer but for the community as a whole. The Center has grown beyond
our wildest imaginings. So too has the spread of cancer; some are healing
, some have died. More and more of us are touched.
Our hope is that someday our work will not be needed, that prevention will
be foremost on the minds of research funders, governments and citizens
of the world, and that the Precautionary Principle will be in place globally.
Until then we will continue serving. Thank you friends, for allowing us
to do just that.
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The Cancer Resource Center of Mendocino
County:
. . . is an access point for support, counseling, educational and organizing
efforts relating to cancer in our communities.
. . . provides nonjudgmental counsel for people with cancer to help them
make wise decisions regarding their treatment plans. We do not advocate
or endorse any specific course of treatment, whether a conventional medical
treatment or an alternative or complementary treatment plan. What we do
is provide information and support to enable people to be informed participants
in their own healing process.
. . . links people in our rural communities with the best in printed and
online cancer information by maintaining a resource library and providing
community access to the Internet.
. . . organizes and facilitates support groups for those dealing with specific
aspects of cancer.
. . . provides counseling and advocacy through our peer support network,
linking individuals with others who have a similar diagnosis and treatment
plan.
. . . provides education and consciousness raising about cancer in our
communities.
. . . welcomes men, women and children from all walks of life and seeks
to meet their needs in a flexible and generous way.
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