Why a Support Group
Is Important

Mission
Bringing hope and healing to people touched by cancer.

Core Values

Caring We provide a safe and nurturing environment in which participants can find hope, healing and empowerment.

Innovation We aim high, are creative and demonstrate courage in discovering and implementing effective, life-changing programs.

Collaboration We listen and learn from the diversity of ideas that we seek from within and through alliances in the local community and beyond.

Integrity We demonstrate principles of ethical behavior through accessibility to all, responsiveness to participants and mutual respect.

Our Mission, Vision and Core Values will govern us now and in the future. We commit to these principles in all of our actions and endeavors.

Vision
In a visioning process composed of cancer survivors, physicians, nurse and dedicated community volunteers, it was decided in 2001 that a comprehensive cancer support organization was a needed resource for Southern Arizona as well as the United States.

The founders of the Sunstone Cancer Support Centers envisioned places in Southern Arizona where cancer survivors and their caregivers could meet in support groups for information and nurturance, check out wigs when hair loss became a reality and access books and tapes on everything from their specific cancer type to spirituality to nutrition. They envisioned comfortable places where survivors would be greeted by professional counseling staff as well as volunteer cancer survivors who would help them cope with their diagnosis.

The vision is now reality; Sunstone Cancer Support Centers is providing all of the above and more.

Sunstone Cancer Support Centers has a dedicated board of directors, staff and an amazing group of over 100 volunteers who are making this vision come alive. The vision is a reality and it is building community in Southern Arizona and beyond.

Sunstone Cancer Support Centers Board of Directors