Agency Details:

Stillwaters Cancer Support Services

Vision Statement:
Stillwaters exists so that no person affected by cancer will journey alone.

Mission Statement:
Stillwaters is a community for persons with cancer and those who love them. Stillwaters nurtures, supports, and encourages healing of the whole person; body, mind and spirit.

Description:
Stillwaters Center offers cancer patients and their families a personal approach to cancer support. Our programs complement the efforts of medical professionals and other cancer organizations by providing psychological, social and emotional support through a community of professional staff, volunteers, patients and their families. All services and programs are offered at no-cost to the participant.

Services Provided:
• Individual Consultations – Assist individual and family on identifying areas of need, concern and interests. Provide assistance in exploring an array of available support services and accessing these services.
• Private Counseling – Short term professional counseling for individuals with cancer and/or their families to assist them in dealing with the many challenges of a cancer diagnosis.
• Support Groups – Professionally facilitated, open forum for sharing, listening, and encouraging individual choices and ideas as they pertain to the cancer experience.
• Retreats – Half day or weekend retreats providing a forum for education, personal awareness and experiential learning.
• Mentor Match – Cancer survivors offer information, emotional support and share their personal experiences with those in a similar circumstance.
• Workshops – One day or multi-session workshops for patients, family members and professionals utilizing a variety of approaches to wellness.
• Physical Wellness - Professionally facilitated yoga and nia are offered to our clients to encourage physical and emotional wellbeing.

History:
The Story of Stillwaters

After dealing with her son's 10-year ordeal with a brain tumor and her personal battle with breast cancer, Mary Soergel, the founder of Stillwaters recognized that the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual balance of the entire family is disturbed when one of its members is diagnosed with cancer. In the late 1980's, Mary began facilitating a support group in Oconomowoc to help people whose lives were under cancer's control to learn how to take responsibility for their own recovery. Stillwaters functioned on a volunteer basis until it became incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1994. Currently, Stillwaters offers a variety of support groups, individual and family counseling, mentors and retreats for cancer patients and their loved ones throughout Waukesha County and surrounding communities.

Contact person: Kathy Woodward, Director Of Administration, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (262) 513-5731

Address:

434 Madison Street Waukesha, WI 53188 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.stillwaterscenter.org

Directions:

Located in downtown Waukesha in the Blair Center.

Last updated on October 15, 2009