Outcomes & Results

Outcomes & results

Whether returning to work with renewed purpose, healing relationships with loved ones, committing to ongoing volunteering, or even making peace with dying, AFC’s revolutionary approach to cancer support is building stronger collaborative communities and a better world. If you are an organization interested in learning about how you can partner with us, click here.

A Commitment To Results

As part of A Fresh Chapter’s commitment to a deep and lasting positive impact on our participants, we have implemented a performance management methodology to continually assess program results. Through this methodology, we monitor a series of indicators with pre-program, on-site, and post-program surveys to assess the participant’s emotional state, cognitive behaviors, and ability to make meaning out of adverse circumstances.

In addition to the indicators we have customized based on the objectives of the program, A Fresh Chapter also utilizes the standardized PROMIS Facit-Sp validated instrument for measuring spiritual well-being. As we continue to grow and aggregate data from our programs, our intent is to design a more robust measurement system and contribute to broader research to demonstrate the efficacy of volunteering as a catalyst for healing the emotional scars of cancer. A Fresh Chapter’s performance management methodology was designed by Michelle DiSabato of Community Impact Consultants Inc., an expert in program impact management, with input from Dr. Arash Asher, Director of Cancer Survivorship & Rehabilitation at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

One year ago I returned home from an incredible journey in India and an experience that both changed me and prepared me. I had no idea it would be only months before my sweet daughter would have to battle cancer for a fourth time. A Fresh Chapter gave me the opportunity to explore, to engage, to heal, and to prepare for what has proved to be the biggest challenge of our life. I am reminded that joy and struggle can coexist. I am reminded that I am loved and always welcomed home but mostly, I am reminded that time goes on whether we want it to or not, and the only choice any of us have is to make the best of it. — Jennifer Montgomery-Lay, 2016 India Odyssey Circle

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