Health & Community Partners

Here are some ways we engage with our health professional network:

• Wellspring Calgary is introduced to new cancer patients at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre new patient orientation.
• Our Speaker Series features highly respected Oncologists, Researchers and leaders in the cancer and health industry, and is open to all. Our Speaker Series also serves as a professional development opportunity.
• Health experts contribute to our Board, Program and Speaker Committees.
• Wellspring Calgary has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Dr. Nicole Culos-Reed, whose research focus is exercise and cancer. Through this MOU, her masters and doctoral students lead exercise programs and train exercise program leaders at Wellspring Calgary.
• We work closely with health professionals like Dr. Harold Lau (head and neck cancer patients) and Dr. Jackson Wu (patients living with an incurable cancer) on joint initiatives to support patients and their families.
• We work closely with supportive care south – including psychosocial resources, rehabilitation oncology and patient Navigators (Indigenous, Adolescent Young Adult, and those working throughout southern Alberta).
• Physicians, Oncologists and Nurses frequently refer patients and caregivers to Wellspring as a community resource during and/or post-treatment.
  
• Alberta Health Services Social Workers refer patients to Wellspring.
• Wellspring Calgary sits as an Expert Member on the Alberta Health Services Cancer Provincial Advisory Council.
  
• Through our Money Matters program, training is provided several times a year to social workers and health care professionals on provincial and federal income replacement programs. The Money Matters program has built a collaborative partnership with the AHS Allied Health Professional Practice Team Calgary Zone for the purposes of sharing information and training for social workers across the province.

How can you help?

1. Refer your patients and their families to our online membership form or ask them to give us a call.
2. Share our resources. See below for the latest Wellspring Calgary general awareness posters.
3. Sign up for our Cancer Support Update e-newsletter.
4. Get access to our program registration system (GameTime) so you can know what programs are upcoming and can help patients and caregivers register. Also contact us if you want to learn more about our Southern Alberta Strategy. Contact Wellspring Calgary’s Southern Alberta Lead, Rebecca Perkins at rebeccap@wellspringcalgary.ca for assistance.
5. If you are interested in presenting in our Speaker Series or collaborating on program development, reach out to Niki Fehr, Acting Program Director at nikif@wellspringcalgary.ca