Janet Teixeira

Co-Executive Director: 

Responsible for annual and strategic planning and CCC program supervision and oversight. Janet Teixeira, MSS, LCSW, has more than twenty years of corporate experience with Xerox and American Express and five years experience as an oncology social worker. Following the death of her husband from brain cancer in the mid 1990’s, Janet returned to school to obtain a Master of Social Service degree from Bryn Mawr in clinical social work. She won national recognition from the American Board of Examiners for Clinical Social Workers in 2000. Licensed as a clinical social worker, Janet’s professional practice experience includes working as a facilitator at the Wellness Community and private clinical practice. She has received specialty training in integrative cancer care, mind-body-spirit medicine and wellness coaching.  She is on the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center’s Special Needs Fund Committee, a board member of the Living with Cancer Fund and a member of the Delaware Cancer Consortium. Janet lives in Pike Creek, Delaware.