Thursday 6 February at 7pm
About Dr Caroline Leek
Caroline has a background in neuroscience research and medicine regulation policy. In 2012, she founded the multi-award-winning Fruit Fly Collective, a not-for-profit organisation that focuses on empowering parents diagnosed with cancer to navigate family life and support their children.
Fruit Fly Collective’s work has included research into building a service to support cancer patients and their children within the NHS; delivering cancer educational workshops for families within hospitals; touring primary school cancer education programmes; developing resources for families affected by parental cancer, and when a parent is in end of life care.
Current project funded by Macmillan and National Lottery is called Parenting with Cancer which provides an online one stop shop of comprehensive support for parents, parenting coaching programmes and training for professionals.
What you can expect
Join Dr Caroline Leek for a discussion about how to talk to children of different ages about breast cancer and where to seek further support.