The Healing Projects Invites Caregivers, Patients, Professionals and Family Members to Join Its Social Network

New Social Networking Website Connects Patients and Caregivers

The Healing Project is launching today Voices Who Care, an innovative social networking website for individuals dealing with life-threatening or chronic illnesses. This website is designed to connect the patient and caregiver communities by providing individuals with a forum where they can meet online.

Key features of the website include:
* Person-to-person search by disease category
* Individual pages including bios, blogs, photo galleries
* Email capabilities
* Community bulletin boards

As the site grows, additional functionality will be added to expand the utility of the site.

Please join its free. Sections and resources have been developed for ALCOHOLISM, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, AUTISM, BREAST CANCER, CANCER, CEREBRAL PALSY, DIABETES, DOWN SYNDROME, EPILEPSY, FRAGILEX, LEUKEMIA, LUNG CANCER, LYMPHOMA, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, PARKINSON'S DISEASE, SENIOR SERVICES AND AGING ISSUES, SUBSTANCE ABUSE, VETERANS SERVICES

It is Free and tailored to your needs.

The Healing Project is Pleased to Annouce the Launch of Voices Who Care Social Network

New Social Networking Website Connects Patients and Caregivers

The Healing Project is launching today Voices Who Care, an innovative social networking website for individuals dealing with life-threatening or chronic illnesses. This website is designed to connect the patient and caregiver communities by providing individuals with a forum where they can meet online.

Social networking sites have become an important online tool in our arsenal of interpersonal communication and relationships. Visits to social networking sites have increased almost 100% in the past year and people spend almost three times as much time on this type of website than at non-social networking sites.

Key features of the website include:
* Person-to-person search by disease category
* Individual pages including bios, blogs, photo galleries
* Email capabilities
* Community bulletin boards

As the site grows, additional functionality will be added to expand the utility of the site.

“The opportunity to connect with others through an online forum is necessary because it allows patients and caregivers to get support without the confines of the traditional in-person support group,” says founder of The Healing Project, Debra LaChance.

The Healing Project website currently includes a comprehensive Resource Center developed to ease the overwhelming process of web-based information search. The Healing Project Resource Center has been designed with the patient in mind, enabling easy and direct access to a wide variety of medical information as well as a database that includes organizations that provide low-cost or free health care services. Unlike traditional search engines, the website serves as a Personalized Patient Guide that offers professionally screened web pages as well as a tailored inventory of national, state and local resources.

Feel free to visit and join a community tailored to address the specific needs of Patients and Caregivers.

The Healing Project Wishes to Thank All the Participants in Making the Summertime Silent Auction a Success

More than 125 supporters attended our inaugural fundraising event for The Healing Project (THP). We are still tallying results, but THP has already established it was a great success.

The evening was hosted by Melissa Marr, THP's President, Debra Lachance, THP's Founder, and Debbie Johnson, General Manager of GreeneStreet Films (GSF).

An auction would not be an autcion without our donors, and THP would like to thank them all:

Wright Relaxation Studio, Casini Firenze, Antonio Prieto Salon , Discovery Wines, Farrah Yurdozu, Nelsie Spencer, Sons & Daughters, Michael George, Steffani Aarons & DHD, David Howell & DHD, The Limited, Melissa Marr, New York Philharmonic, Robert Mark , Pierre Rovira , Arlene & Avrom Doft , Gym Sports Bar , Matt Mulhern, Rebecca Miller, John Penotti, Fisher Stevens, GreeneStreet Films, IFC Film Center, Tony Conway, Kate Rudin, Andrea Lorimor, Adele Lonas, Jolie Guy, Lori Benson, Unleash Marketing, Leah Esposito, The Schatten Group, Printing House Fitness and Squash Club, Joe Maysonet, Sarah Lewis, Francesca Paik, and Sharon Ludke.

The Healing Project is especially grateful to GreeneStreet Films for providing its production facility to hold the auction. We would like to single out John Penotti and Fisher Stevens, the co-founders of GSF, not only for being kind enough to offer their company's space but also to be listed as an auction item.



100% of the funds raised at the Summertime Silent Auction will be used to develop and launch Voices Who Care.



“Voices Who Care” is a global online community designed to allow individuals coping with life-threatening or chronic debilitating illnesses to meet online, share experiences and perspectives, offer and receive advice. Emotional and social support is essential for those faced with health-related challenges and membership to this Network is free and open to anyone who wants to join: patients, caregivers, family members, medical professionals, friends. Voices Who Care provides its members with the ability to connect, make friends, share perspective, gain insight and stay in touch.“Voices Who Care” will allow individuals to communicate through email and will be capable of accommodating multiple users in multiple countries. Individuals utilizing the network will be able to conduct searches to locate, for example, other individuals combating the same or similar illnesses, receiving a particular course of treatment or receiving treatment in particular hospitals or treatment/hospice centers. Anticipated launch is September 2007.

If you are unable to join The Healing Project for our inaugural Summertime Silent Auction, THP accepts online donations through Network for Good.

If you don’t care to make an online donation, please feel free to send a donation by mail to:

The Healing Project Inc.
5 Laurel Rd.
South Salem, NY 10590

Again, thank you so much for your generous support.

The Healing Project Summertime Silent Auction - Update -July 19th at 7PM

Join The Healing Project on July 19th at 7PM in a Silent Auction to support the Voices Who Care Online Project. We have added a host of items from from a day at the spa to a private plane to Nantucket. A complete list of items will be available shortly before the auction. Don't miss the opportunity to bid on these items and meet the staff and fellow supporters of the Healing Project. It should be a wonderful evening in support of a worthy cause.

RSVP via e-mail The Healing Project Summertime Silent Auction rsvp@thehealingproject.org. If you would like a to download a full-sized version of the invitation, click here.

Please include your name, contact information and the size of your party.


If you can not join us, please be kind enough to Donate to The Healing Project through


The evening is being graciously hosted by GreeneStreet Films.

Voices Who Care Interactive Network Featured in the Lewisboro Ledger

Debra LaChance, left, and Melissa Marr, of The Healing Project, will soon be offering a special interactive feature, “Voices Who Care,” an online social network designed to connect the patient community by providing individuals with a forum where they may meet online.

Voices Who Care is an Interactive network of support for those coping with illness. To read the entire story follow this link.