CROSSROADS4HOPE, A NETWORK OF CANCER SUPPORT
Taking on Your Cancer Journey. Together.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The American Cancer Society estimates that 51,680 patients were diagnosed with cancer in New Jersey in 2017, which is approximately 1,000 patients per week. Additionally, the National Cancer Institute indicates that 4.8% of the population has battled the disease, which translates into almost 500,000 cancer survivors in the State, 25% of whom are raising children under the age of 19. These numbers are expected to grow dramatically over the next 10 years, with estimates that 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will develop cancer in their lifetime. None of these figures include affected caregivers and family members who are also experience psychosocial issues related to a loved one’s diagnosis. Even with breakthroughs in cancer treatment, the burden of cancer and its psychosocial impacts will continue to grow, especially for some populations, such as those living with advanced cancer.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Psychosocial Support
Clinical interventions to help move people through a cancer health crisis, and resource navigation
Assistance helping people with cancer prepare to participate in shared treatment decision discussions with their healthcare team
Individual and Group Support (persons with cancer, caregivers, family members, and loved ones)
Support4Family Programs (families with children ages 4 - 21)
Educational workshops on all topics related to the cancer experience
Nutrition classes and healthy cooking demonstrations
Mind-Body classes for stress management
MyGo2Support, a digital support program
Financial assistance for families dealing with pediatric cancer or single women, including those with children, facing cancer
Group Support
We offer Support Groups for all people affected by cancer. Current groups include Men's Cancer, advanced Breast Cancer, Bereavement, Patients & Caregivers, Gynecological Cancer, Family & Friends, Latinos Affected by Cancer, Living with Early Stage Cancer, Living With Advanced Cancer, Kids Connect/Parents Connect Living With Cancer, and Kids Connect/Parents Connect Bereavement.
Individual Support
Time-limited one-on-one support sessions.
Education
We offer educational programs covering a wide variety of topics, including: managing side effects, new discoveries in cancer, navigating insurance, genetics, disease-specific topics, and more.
Nutrition Education
Cancer patients face many challenges when it comes to nutrition. Our programs help inform people with cancer and their loved ones about ways to increase and sustain healthy eating behaviors. The basis of our education is the American Institute for Cancer Research, a partner to Crossroads4Hope and one we have done collaborative reach with.
Survivorship
Our Survivorship Workshop program is a six-week series designed to help people who are transitioning from active care to a life with no evidence of disease.
Mind Body
Our Mind Body classes include gentle exercise, relaxation, and programs essential to reducing stress and improving one's wellbeing.
Where we work
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of donations made by board members
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
People with diseases and illnesses, Adults, Young adults, Children and youth, Caregivers
Related Program
Education
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Percentage of board members donating to the organization.
Number of volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Includes individual volunteers and corporate groups.
Average number of dollars received per donor
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of organizational partners
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Total number of volunteer hours contributed to the organization
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Includes individual volunteers and corporate groups.
Average number of programs offered per month
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of support groups offered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Group Support
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of visits to support groups
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Group Support
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Hours of expertise provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Total service hours for all programs delivered
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
It is our goal to:
1. Double our reach into the community we serve
2. Expand our reach into underserved communities
3. Reach patients earlier in the cancer continuum in order to provide them with distress screenings and treatment decision support tools, thereby helping to improve their outcomes
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
To address the significant need in the community, the Board’s Strategic Planning Committee, in conjunction with Crossroads4Hope leadership, has developed innovative strategies designed to unleash programmatic and systemic change, position Crossroads4Hope as a leading voice for all cancer patients, family members and caregivers, and enable us to offer services to more people over a wider geography. The culmination of this work has been the creation of well-rounded business plans to actualize our strategies.
We have taken a “whole-community” approach to address significant unmet psychosocial needs for people affected by cancer, while creating multiple, relevant points-of-entry to our organization. These strategies are both individual approaches as well as components of an integrated ecosystem that will support and accelerate our growth. The following strategies comprise our Vision for the Future: Support4Families ,Nutrition, Outreach to Diverse Communities, Unmet Needs, and Patient Centered Care . For more information, and to learn the details of these strategies, please reach out to Crossroads4Hope at (908) 658-5400.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Crossroads4Hope, formerly known as Cancer Support Community Central New Jersey, is a network of cancer support that is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. As experts in oncology mental health, the organization provides support, education, and hope to all people with cancer and their loved ones. Backed by evidence that the best cancer care includes social and emotional support, Crossroads4Hope creates a caring community to help individuals live with, through, and beyond cancer. At no charge to people with cancer, family members, and caregivers, the organization delivers essential programs and services including individual and group support; educational, nutrition, and healthy-cooking workshops; classes to enhance health and wellness; and activities that build social connections. Crossroads4Hope has temporarily moved its program of support to a virtual platform since the start of stay-at-home orders, and will continue to provide both virtual and in-person support in the future.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since 2004, Crossroads4Hope has provided services at no charge to more than 15,000 people who have sought our services, and has delivered more than 100,000 hours of programming.
With Crossroads4Hope, individuals affected by cancer are given an opportunity to enhance their health and well-being and build strong social connections through participation in professionally-led programs including: individual and group support; educational workshops; healthy cooking and nutrition programs; and health and wellness classes. Our work is evidence-based and all programs and services are always free of charge.
Crossroads4Hope Board of Trustees, community stakeholders, and staff work closely together to create a vision for our organization including doubling the reach of our services, at a minimum, with a particular focus on underserved communities as well as the people typically forgotten in the cancer journey: family members, caregivers and, most notably, children.
Over the last few years, and in earnest since 2013, we have been creating innovative strategies to improve the cancer experience. Our strategies focus on providing evidence-based, professionally-led programs that will always remain free of charge to patients, families, and caregivers. These strategies are designed to unleash programmatic and systemic change, and will position Crossroads4Hope as a leading voice for cancer patients and their families, enabling us to offer services to more people over a wider geography.
Crossroads4Hope is investing in and integrating the disciplines of Social Work, Child Life, and Public Health across all of these strategies to create a more significant impact in the community psychosocial oncology health space and, more specifically, the lives of the individuals who are affected by cancer. When a family member is diagnosed with cancer, especially with the underlying anxiety of a global pandemic from a novel disease, the best treatment approach is multidisciplinary. By elevating an interdisciplinary team of Social Work, Public Health, and Child Life to serve the psychosocial needs of the cancer-stricken community, we are able to provide improved social and emotional support. This team approach allows our staff to work at the top of their licenses, and offer the widest range of help and resources to support our participants.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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CROSSROADS4HOPE, A NETWORK OF CANCER SUPPORT
Board of directorsas of 11/30/2022
Ralph Weaver
East West Connections
Term: 2022 - 2025
Thomas P. Schaible
Schaible Russo Financial
Jennifer Bruner
PVH
Jonathan Hirschfeld
PwC
Brian Cain
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Kristina DiPalo
Elysian Communications
Roger Humphrey
Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc.
Daniel Loughlin
Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc.
Debbie Lynch, PhD, SPHR
Ansell
Al Russo
Schaible Russo Financial
Amy Sutton
CSCCNJ
Michael Szot
KPMG
Kathleen Toomey, MD
Steeplechase Cancer Center
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Aetna
Jack Micali
Merck
Lynn Arnold
CSCCNJ Founder
Evan Berkley
Mr. Christmas, Inc.
Nancy Dowd
CSCCNJ Founder
Christopher Fornal
BlackRock
Kevin Kelly
BD
Sandra Kennedy
Provident Bank
Anthoula Stefanou
PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
Ralph Weaver
East West Connection
Michael Bucci
Entrepreneur
Pankaj Amin
SC Ventures
Lisa Zukauskas
Chief Procurement Officer, Organon
Rachel Lipschutz
Community Representative
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
Transgender Identity
Sexual orientation
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Disability
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.