ask a question ask for advice contact us about About Hi and welcome to riprap This site is developed especially for 12-16 year olds who have a parent with cancer. In riprap, you can learn more about cancer and its treatment and through individual stories you can see how this might affect you and your family. For some of you it may be even more important to make contact and share experiences with other teenagers in the same situation. Because we are concerned about the safety risks of chat rooms on the internet, we have decided not to offer this feature. However, the website includes several other ways where you can find out about how others deal with their situation and where you can say what's on your mind. Have a look at the stories on the site, give it a go in the forum on the message board or take part in a topical debate. You can also go to 'ask a question' or 'ask for advice' and email us with a question or a concern, which will be answered by experienced professionals working in this field. Riprap is developed by a team based at the University of Sheffield, UK - within the Sheffield Palliative Care Studies Group. We are collaborating with the digital marketing and communications agency Ai. We are very grateful to the New Opportunities Fund for funding the development under their 'Living with Cancer' initiative. As the site is developed in the UK, we have included a directory of services nationally - called 'support in my area' - so that you can find out where to go if you want to talk to someone face-to-face near to where you live. You may wonder why we have called the site 'riprap'. The word 'riprap' means loose stones placed into a stream, onto which a firm foundation can be built. We hope that this site can be one of your building blocks at a time when many things may seem uncertain and at a loose end. We want to make this your site and as helpful as possible. Please visit the feedback section and let us know what you think. If you would like to get in touch with us in other ways than described above, you are welcome to contact us through the details below. riprap project team Professor Sam H Ahmedzai Professor of Palliative Medicine Tel: +44 (0)114 271 2950 email: pallmed@sheffield.ac.uk Hilde Hjelmeland Ahmedzai Information Researcher / Project Manager Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0174 email: h.h.ahmedzai@sheffield.ac.uk Post address: Hilde Hjelmeland Ahmedzai Riprap Project Manager University of Sheffield Sykes House Little Common Lane Sheffield S11 9NE UK Third Party Links There's lots of useful info out there>> Linz - aged 16 At christmas was so hard because we knew that it was our last christmas with him - that was so hard.>>