For the past three years, Connecting Champions has been conducting groundbreaking research to assess and address the unmet needs of adolescents and young adults with cancer. We submitted our research for publication, and it was published today by a peer-reviewed journal, Continuity in Education.

This marks a major milestone in the history of Connecting Champions. Having a program backed by research is incredibly rare within the nonprofit sector.

We identified an array of career and school needs facing young people with cancer that had not previously been documented in research. Further, our research shows our groundbreaking program is addressing those needs in a way that hospitals and communities cannot. We aren’t just impacting the lives of kids and young adults – we are changing the field of oncology.