Support

If your parent has cancer your life may be very different from what it used to be. Many feel alone and don´t know who to turn to for support. We hope that this section can help you with what you´re going through.

You may feel lonely but you’re not alone! In addition to the stories on riprap, the forum can help you make contact with other young people going through similar experiences. You may also find support from reading the ‘Advice’ column where we share some of the queries from other teenagers and our replies to them. You may want to get in touch with your own query or perhaps you just want to talk things through with us in private...? Further, you’ll find some information under ‘Living with cancer’ regarding talking about cancer and how cancer may affect you and your family. The experience you have been through is likely to affect you even after treatment has ended and your parent has recovered from cancer. We talk a bit about this in ‘Moving on’. We have also included a separate section for those of you whose parent has sadly died from cancer.

Recently, we have added a section called ‘Voices of support’ where we incorporate video and audio files and then there is the Creative Corner where you can express your thoughts and feelings in a creative way.

We hope that the riprap site can help you in many ways but you may need face-to-face or other local support to help you deal with it all. Have a look at services listed in the section ‘Support in my area’. There is also a section with links to UK national and some international organisations that may be relevant for you to have a look at.