Spreading the Word About Re-Mission

Battling cancer isn’t easy. With the Re-Mission video game, HopeLab is helping teens and young adults with cancer as they engage in the fight of their lives. Thanks to generous support from the Entertainment Software Association Foundation (ESAF), we’re introducing Re-Mission to the people who can benefit most.

Re-Mission is a powerful tool for patients, as well as the caregivers who support them, and we’re working to spread the word. Every spring, HopeLab attends a number of conferences to talk to people who work directly with young people with cancer. This work is made possible in part by generous support from the ESAF. These conferences include doctors, nurses, social workers and child life specialists who have dedicated themselves to helping young patients fight their cancer.

Robin Avant, HopeLab’s Manager of Special Projects (pictured above), is our ambassador in this important work. This year, Robin attended the Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers in Tennessee and the Child Life Council annual conference in Boston, where she introduced hundreds of health care providers to Re-Mission. Robin educates conference attendees on the research demonstrating the effectiveness of Re-Mission in helping young cancer patients stick to their treatments and lets them know how to obtain free copies of the game. The Re-Mission information card distributed at these conferences (pictured below) features one of the many young patients whose lives have been improved through their experience with the game.

Every day young people are newly diagnosed with cancer, and we want to be sure that health care providers know that Re-Mission is available free of charge to their patients. Think you know someone who might benefit? Forward this post and help us spread the word!