Yes We Cancer is out to revolutionize the way families experience pediatric cancer.
This bold new effort is about helping families manage, survive, and thrive after the diagnosis. Yes We Cancer is a UX for Good project.
THE LATEST
A new lens:
Whole Family Impact
We’re committed to supporting families as they navigate the challenges of pediatric cancer. Our work focuses on alleviating the financial, emotional, and practical burdens that families face beyond the hospital. Through insights gained from families and a community of experts, we’re designing solutions that address the Whole Family Impact. Watch the video to learn more about our mission and how you can be a part of creating meaningful change for pediatric cancer families.
The challenge
Medicine has made incredible strides in treating pediatric cancer. Now it’s time to help the families.
A diagnosis for the whole family
What if a pediatric cancer diagnosis could actually make a family stronger, healthier, happier, and more successful? It’s a wild thought, we know, but it’s what we’re trying to do.
Medical science and treatments for pediatric cancer have been making great strides – survival rates are up and climbing. But the healthcare system is focused exclusively on the patients.
Doctors, nurses, hospitals, and social workers are doing great work, but they and everybody else need new ways to help the whole family.
From the gut-wrenching moment they learn their child has cancer, parents and other caregivers are dropped into a world of financial and emotional agony and real-world problems: marital challenges, job loss, financial hardship, school absences, and struggling siblings.
Of course, the children with cancer come first. But these children need more than great medical care — they need their families to recover, survive, and thrive.
OUR APPROACH
We’re imagining, designing, and developing innovations in family care that build on medical breakthroughs.
UX for Good founder Jason Ulaszek (on the right) is a leading user experience designer and will head up the design team. Jason is also the father of a pediatric cancer patient and will ask the question that determines our success: will our design interventions make life better for families facing cancer?
The next frontier of family care
Yes We Cancer is a bold new effort to revolutionize how families manage – and thrive – during and after pediatric cancer. We are bringing together the best thinking on sociology, health, social work, and family resilience, and engaging designers from across the country to develop new ways to fill these gaps and help thousands of families in need.
We're starting with a thorough understanding of the family's cancer journey. This will tackle issues already known to healthcare (like insurance) and dive into untouched territories (like how cancer disrupts family traditions).
We’d love to hear your ideas on how we can keep making improvements, transforming the family care experience, and curing everything that sucks about cancer.
ABOUT US
If audacious were a measure, that’d be us.
Yes We Cancer is a project of UX for Good. Launched in 2011 by Jason Ulaszek and Jeff Leitner, UX for Good has partnered with organizations like The GRAMMY Foundation, the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education, the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, and the Clinton Global Initiative. Yes We Cancer is our latest effort to leverage the best thinking and the best design to help people in need.
SUPPORTERS
These organizations and individuals share our passion for the challenge.
We’re so thankful for their partnership and support.
Studio space
Highland Management AssociatesCommercial broker
Lee DicksonStudio design
Jan Johnson & Yong InStudio setup
JHR Electric & McCormack PaintingStudio furniture
Rework, Designs for Dignity, BOS & Affordable Office Interiors, Office Furniture Resources, AllsteelBrand and graphic design
Dan LeuContent and copy
Julia Ruskin
JOIN US
Let’s build a better experience for pediatric cancer families.
Your support can help us realize a better future for families. By donating to Yes We Cancer, you’re not just funding research, you’re giving hope to families battling pediatric cancer. Let’s rewrite their story, ensuring they have the strength and support they need to conquer the toughest challenges. Together, we can change their lives.
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