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Our 2010 Program Focus: Breast Cancer
We are proud to announce that Heartwood Foundation is the recipient of a community grant from the Ticket for the Cure lottery fund, a State of Illinois program designed to provide assistance to low income women with breast cancer. The program is managed by the Illinois Department of Public Health, Office of Women’s Health. This grant will enable us to expand the Women and Cancer Program to locations throughout greater Chicago.

Our program this year will be offering women with breast cancer free supportive therapies including acupuncture, bodywork and psychotherapy, as well as classes in meditation, tai chi and yoga. These therapies benefit the physical, mental and spiritual health of women living with cancer at any stage in progression. Studies have shown these treatments to be helpful in:

  • Boosting the immune system
  • Managing the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation
  • Easing anxiety and fear
  • Alleviating pain

Our goal is to facilitate health and well-being for everyone, regardless of limited financial means. We serve a diverse, multi-cultural population and strive to accommodate women in treatment locations throughout Chicago and the surrounding communities.

Heartwood Foundation Gets a New Home!

Heartwood Moves

1818 Dempster Street
Evanston, Illinois

Heartwood Foundation is now its own lovely office space in the new location for Heartwood Center. After 10 years at its current location in downtown Evanston, Heartwood has moved to a new home just a single mile away. Terri Clemens, Heartwood Foundation Women & Cancer Program Executive Director, is working closely with Nancy Floy (Founder and Executive Director of Heartwood Center) throughout the remodeling and moving process.

In addition to Heartwood Center and the Women & Cancer Program, this location will provide space for Tsogyaling Meditation Center of Evanston and the Northside Rebuilding Exchange, a green company that works with recycled building materials.

Office Rental, Classroom/Event Space Available

Healthcare practitioners are welcome to Join us as Heartwood enters a new chapter in its mission to provide outstanding holistic healthcare to Evanston and the North Shore. Office rental or sublease space may still available; offices are rented first-come, first-served. Visits to the new space are available.

Rent our lovely new classroom for your workshop, seminars and events. The 1,000 square-foot classroom/studio features hardwood floors, natural light and is perfect for ongoing classes, as well as weekend events.

If you are interesting in office space or in renting the classroom or meeting hall, contact Nancy Floy at 847.491.1122 x11 to make reservations or to see the space,

For more information, see Heartwood's New Home.
Summer 2010

 

"Through my cancer treatment I felt like doctors treated the cancer. Through holistic healthcare treatments I felt they treated me, the person suffering from cancer, as a whole person, body, mind and spirit."

-program participant