This Is Us
Cancer Care Connection is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization formed in 2000. We help people affected by cancer make well-informed decisions through professional coaching, personalized information, and resource connections.
Our Mission:
Help people affected by cancer to navigate the full range of issues they face, make informed decisions, and take action on their own behalf.
Our Vision:
Every person affected by cancer has what they need to obtain their best possible outcome.
An Affiliate of JFS Delaware
As of July 2020, Cancer Care Connection merged with and became an affiliate of Jewish Family Services of Delaware (JFS). With this mutually-beneficial partnership, JFS will increase community awareness of Cancer Care Connection and ensure the continuation of our important work, while Cancer Care Connection fills a gap in JFS’ current services by providing our oncology-specific, psycho-social expertise.
The complementary nature of Cancer Care Connection and JFS services affords opportunities to strengthen, expand, and—in the long term—create new programs to better serve their joined client base and grow a service that is desperately needed in the region. This strategic collaboration and “level of specialty and efficiency can change the entire trajectory for a cancer patient and their family,” shared a local patient advocate and mother with Stage 4 Metastatic Breast Cancer.
Staff
Janet F. Teixeira, MSS, LCSW
Executive Director
Carol Deputy, MSW, LCSW
Clinical Director
Carmela Longobardi, LCSW
Oncology Social Worker
Kathie Kamen, LCSW
Oncology Social Worker
Board of Directors
Jack J. Baroudi, PhD
Board Chair
Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware Associate Dean and Professor
Ann K. M. Gualtieri
Board Treasurer
E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.
Vice President (retired)
Clint Walker
Vice Chair
Barclays
Managing Director (retired)
Advisory Board
Marge Lang, MSS, LCSW, OSW-C, ACHP-SW
Advisory Board Chair
Founding Board Member
Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital
Palliative Medicine & Oncology Social Worker
Chris Clement CISSP
Longwood Gardens
Senior Systems Administrator & Security Manager
Elaine Concklin, M.S.
Step-2-It!
Founder, CEO
Donna O’Dell Hoke
Marked Promotions
Sales Executive
Tom Karinshak
Comcast
EVP and Chief Customer Experience Office
Meg Maley, R.N., B.S.N
Founding Board Member
CanSurround, PBC
Co-founder and CEO
Joy Park
Comcast
VP, CX Business Partner Strategy & Support