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Friend's Health Connection

Since its inception in 1988 by 16-year-old founder and lupus patient Roxanne Black-Weisheit, Friends’ Health Connection has networked over 10,000 patients worldwide. In addition to networking, they also provide educational programs at hospitals for patients and staff about various diseases, often featuring prominent lecturers. Roxanne and Friends’ Health Connection are the recipients of numerous scholarships, honors and awards, such as the Daily Point of Light Award from President George H.W. Bush and the Giraffe Foundation Award for people who "stick their necks out to help others.” This award-winning organization helps individuals cope with illness through the power of friendship. Make powerful connections happen; help this idea expand in your area.

 

Friends’ Health Connection

P.O. Box 114

New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Telephone: (800) 48-FRIEND (483-7436)

FAX: (732) 249-9897

E-Mail: info@friendshealthconnection.org

http://www.friendshealthconnection.org

From Passionaries� A Connection of Caring

 

Roxanne Black, Friends’ Health Connection 

 

“Two young women lay in hospital beds in two different New Jersey cities, both attached to feeding tubes and talking with each other over the telephone. Though they’ve never met, they are connected by a phone line, a new friendship, and shared experiences: they are each in the fight of their lives against cancer. They're also drawing strength from the caring heart of a beautiful brunette who has never met either of them. In 1990, 18-year-old year old Roxanne Black founded the network that later brought the two of them together. Since then, this network has connected more than 10,000 people suffering from a variety of serious illnesses. She knows first hand what it is like to face the trials of a devastating disease alone. When a high school sophomore, Roxanne, began feeling ill one day, the athletic teen from Atlantic City could never have imagined that she was coming down with a life-changing illness. Until then, she had gone to the beach every day and zealously rowed on her school's demanding crew team."