9/11 Tribute Center programs are offered throughout the year. Lectures, educational workshops and support programs are available to unite family members who lost loved ones, survivors, Lower Manhattan residents, rescue and recovery workers and volunteers who assisted in the aftermath of 9/11. Visit tributewtc.org for a schedule of upcoming programs and events.
Join the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society at 10:00am on Saturday, June 21, 2014 at the Melville Marriott as experts teach ways to cope with any type of cancer. Speakers will include cancer survivors, social workers and music therapists and others. For complete details and to register, please click here. For more information or to register […]
The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund is approaching an important deadline. This deadline applies to individuals who were diagnosed with a 9/11-related eligible cancer other than prostate cancer on or before October 12, 2012 and who have not already registered or filed a VCF claim. Claimants diagnosed on or before October 12, 2012 with one of the cancers […]
The seventh annual Pan African Peter C. Alderman Conference will be held on July 21-24, 2014 at Mbarara University in Mbarara, Uganda. This year’s theme will be Trauma and Community Mental Health. There are no fees to attend the conference, which is open to all African health professionals working in the area of psychotrauma consequent […]
The second annual Stupid Cancer Ice Cream Social will be held on Saturday, July 26, 2014, from 1:00pm-4:00pm. Anyone under 40 with cancer is welcome. First stop is Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream, second stop, Big Gay Ice Cream, third stop (roughly 2:30pm) Wafels & Dinges Café. Stupid Cancer will update their Facebook page as […]
The Voices of September 11th Day of Remembrance Information Forum will be held on Wednesday, September 10, 2014 from 8:00am to 5:00pm at the Marriott Hotel on West Street, just south of the National 9/11 Memorial Museum. This year’s theme will be Promoting Resilience, Healing Families and Communities. Once again, the day-long Forum will feature […]
On Thursday, September 11, 2014, at 7:30pm, Susan Marcus, a founding member and volunteer for the Fairfield County Trauma Recovery Network, will give a free presentation on trauma and PTSD at the Tully Health Center. She will speak about identifying, understanding, coping with, and treating PTSD and other responses to trauma. The presentation is free […]