I'm Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation :: The Voice Of Young Adults

HOW WE DO IT

i[2]y uses music, the arts and social media to organize, energize, mobilize and activate young adults to the cause, build community, end stigma and make it hip to talk openly about stupid cancer.

With an international provider network exceeding 600 cancer centers, we advocate on behalf of over 400 young adult support resources and over 1.25 million adolescent and young adult survivors* (ages 15-39) who are living with and beyond cancer in the US; a population for whom both survival rates and quality of life have not improved in 30 years.*

*includes childhood survivors; source: NCI SEER Data, 2005

OUR PROCESS

Within the cancer continuum, i[2]y is unique in it's collaborative and noncompetitive approach by serving as an communications umbrella and edgy brand that is finally connecting the dots between patient, provider and resource.

In using this wikinomic, opensource business ethic, we are innovating the practice of cancer advocacy by engendering the first click-and-mortar social community of young adults mobilized around their own generation's public health disparities.

Feeling isolated? The channels below will connect you with hundreds of age-appropriate resources and open the door to socially network with countless thousands of young adult survivors and caregivers.

young adult support

general cancer support

scholarships & financial aid

excursions & retreats

forums & chat rooms

social networking

young adult blogosphere

coping literature

books, mags, films and media

advocacy tools

cancer creative

HEY NURSES, SOCIAL WORKERS AND PROVIDERS!

i[2]y literature and promotional materials currently provide inpatient support to AYA patients at 600+ cancer centers around the world. Are we at your clinic yet? If not, please ask us to ship you our gear!