Coping with Childhood Cancer in the Classroom

Cancer Council Queensland and the Queensland Children’s Cancer Centre (located at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane) are inviting all teachers and school-based guidance officers, counsellors, nurses and chaplains to attend their annual joint Coping with Childhood Cancer in the Classroom seminar on September 7, 2010.

The free seminar will be held at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, with videoconferencing technology available – through selected Queensland Health sites – to allow rural and regional schools to also participate in the seminar. It will commence at 9am and conclude at 2pm.

The seminar aims to educate and support teachers to help children, their families and their peers to cope with childhood cancer in both the primary and secondary school environments.

Chairman of Cancer Council Queensland’s Childhood Cancer Support Committee, Dr Tim Hassall, said demand for the seminar had grown enormously since its inception more than a decade ago.

“Each year we invite some of Queensland’s best health professionals in paediatric cancer care to address seminar participants on the changing approaches to coping with childhood cancer in the classroom.

“This year, we will also have representatives from cancer support-based community organisations such as Camp Quality, Canteen, Redkite, Ronald McDonald House, Starlight and Leukaemia Foundation,” Dr Hassall said.

To register for the conference, please complete this form and return to Angelene Kendall, Cancer Council Queensland, PO Box 201, Spring Hill, Qld, 4004 or email the compelted form to angelenekendall@cancerqld.org.au

Expressions of interest for participating in the videoconference are open now. There are limited videoconferencing opportunities available across the state so please book today to avoid disappointment.

Videoconference registration must be received by August 25, 2010.

For more information about the seminar or to register your interest for the videoconference, contact Angelene Kendall, Cancer Support Coordinator, Cancer Council Queensland, on (07) 3634 5240 or angelenekendall@cancerqld.org.au  

Event details:

Tuesday, September 7, 2010; 9am – 2pm; hosted in the auditorium on the fifth floor of the education centre in the Royal Children’s Hospital, Herston Road, Herston.

Bookings are essential.