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Flinders Foundation is the official charity of the Flinders medical precinct in South Australia. Every day, our team works to support the leading clinicians and researchers across Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University to deliver better research, treatment and care and ensure they are equipped with the latest technology, in the best environment.
Thanks to enormous support from across the community, we’re working to prevent, cure and care across a range of diseases and conditions – including cancer.
In 2012 Flinders Foundation played a key role in opening the $30 million Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer (FCIC), a unique centre combining compassionate care, world leading research and a comprehensive support programs for people living with cancer, all under the same roof. Since then, Flinders Foundation has provided ongoing support to the FCIC by raising funds for cancer research, prevention and care. This includes providing research grants that help researchers get novel ideas into the laboratory and work on ways to prevent cancer, ways to screen for cancer, and new ways to rid people of this disease once they have it.
Thanks to enormous support from across the community, answers are being uncovered and significant medical breakthroughs at Flinders are having a global impact.
To better support patients and their families, Flinders Foundation is now working to develop a new Cancer Wellness Centre on the ground floor of the FCIC to provide a range of services to help them cope with the effects of cancer. But there’s still a long way to go. You can help bring us closer by signing for Dry July and raising funds for Flinders Foundation. Thank you for your support.
We're pleased to announce that Flinders Foundation has received an additional grant from the Dry July Foundation October grant round.
This grant will enable funding for a Cancer Wellness Exercise and Physical Activity Service: bringing together physiotherapy and exercise physiology expertise, helping to optimise wellness for cancer patients, leading to improved quality of life and outcomes for cancer patients.
Funds from the Dry July 2019 campaign will enable the Dry July Foundation to introduce therapy-based and therapeutic art activities into the cancer wellness program via the Cancer Wellness Centre which is currently being developed and is due to open mid-October 2019.
Arts in Health at Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) was introduced at FMC in 1996. The program currently works across all clinical areas of the hospital and currently supports in-patients in the oncology ward. These services will be adapted to deliver an Arts in Health program through the cancer wellness centre at Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer.
For a cancer patient, an engagement with a supported visual at activity can be used to:
- improve mood and mobility
- provide an avenue for emotional or psychological expression
- create alternative methods of non-verbal communication for thoughts and feelings that might otherwise be difficult to communicate about
- be a relaxing distraction from the imperatives of clinical treatment
- provide opportunities for social and community engagement in supportive environments
- create opportunities to share something joyful with families and friends
- offer the chance to learn new skills and techniques to support recovery
- provide information and tools to promote physical wellness through education
- support gentle exercise regimes with physical activities, such as felting
Image: Illustration of section of the new Cancer Wellness Centre under construction at the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer
The Foundation Cafe at Flinders Foundation are on board and taking part in Dry July to raise funds towards further development of the Cancer Wellness Centre. Next week they will be getting creative in the kitchen and selling hand baked goodies with all proceeds going to the Flinders Foundation Dry July campaign.
Last week saw Flinders Foundation featured on TEN News Adelaide in a Dry July promotion. If you would like to see the news piece you can watch it here
It's not too late to sign up for Dry July and raise funds for this wonderful organisation. If you would like to take part and help Flinders Foundation reach their goal, please click HERE
Thanks to the incredible fundraising of Dry July participants and support of Dry July Foundation, building will get underway in the coming months on a new cancer wellness centre at Flinders to better support patients and their families affected by cancer.
The centre will feature two multi-purpose consulting rooms to accommodate dietitians, psychologists, financial counsellors, exercise physiologists and other services to better support the physical, psychological, emotional and practical needs of patients which aren’t often easily managed in the cancer clinic.
Cancer patients and their families attend about 30,000 appointments at Flinders each year. During these appointments they can be confronted with the best of news, or the worst of news. Private areas in the wellness centre will give them and their families a quiet space to digest information they have just received.
The centre’s lounge will also provide comfortable areas for patients to sit and relax before and after treatment and appointments. While an information library will help connect the 2500 patients diagnosed with cancer at Flinders each year with services and support to help them overcome the effects of cancer and meet their individual needs.
We’re so thrilled the cancer wellness centre will be open from October… it simply wouldn’t have been possible without the Dry July Foundation and the thousands of people who pledge to ‘go dry’ in July! Thank you!
Excitingly, all funds raised this July will be used to support wellness services in the centre to ensure people with cancer can live well during, and after, cancer treatment.
We're proud to announce that Flinders Foundation has received a grant from the Dry July Foundation 2018 Grant Program.
The grant will go towards the following:
• Developing and furnishing the family room at the new wellness centre at Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer (FCIC), to provide a dedicated space for the entire family to be a part of diagnosis, treatment and other stages of living with cancer.