Courageous Care
Empowering women through every stage of their cancer journey
No woman should navigate cancer alone.
The Center for Courageous Health provides grants for evidence-informed integrative oncology care alongside conventional treatment — helping women access compassionate support for healing, quality of life, and wellbeing throughout their cancer journey.
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A cancer diagnosis impacts far more than physical health. Women often face treatment side effects, emotional stress, financial strain, and challenges maintaining their quality of life during treatment and recovery. The Center for Courageous Health helps bridge the gap between conventional cancer treatment and supportive integrative oncology care by expanding access to evidence-informed services that support the whole person—body, mind, and spirit.
How Integrative Oncology Works
Integrative Oncology works alongside conventional treatments, supporting the effectiveness of standard treatments while minimizing their side effects, supporting the whole person—body, mind, and spirit—while helping patients live their healthiest lives during and after cancer treatment.
Typical treatments may include…
- Naturopathic Medical Care
- Social and Emotional Support
- Mind Body Medicine
- Nutritional and Dietary support
- Exercise and Movement Recommendations
- Stress Management
- IV Therapy
- Acupuncture and acupressure
- Massage
- Music Therapy
- Aromatherapy
- Sleep Hygiene
Integrative oncology services are individualized and designed to complement—not replace—conventional cancer treatment.
Why Integrative Oncology Matters
Research continues to demonstrate that supportive integrative therapies can help individuals manage treatment-related side effects, improve quality of life, reduce stress, support emotional wellbeing, and enhance overall resilience during and after cancer treatment.
National organizations, including the Society for Integrative Oncology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology, recognize the value of evidence-informed integrative therapies as part of comprehensive cancer care.
Yet many of these services are not fully covered by insurance, creating significant barriers for those who could benefit most.
What Makes Courageous Health Different
The Center for Courageous Health does not provide medical treatment directly. Instead, we help women access evidence-informed integrative oncology care through charitable grants, patient navigation, and a growing network of Collaborative Partners committed to reducing barriers to supportive services.
We believe healing is most effective when conventional and integrative care work together. By bringing together patients, healthcare providers, community organizations, donors, and businesses throughout Oregon, we are building a collaborative model that expands access to whole-person cancer care regardless of financial circumstances.
Every grant awarded, every partnership formed, and every woman supported helps create a more equitable pathway to healing while generating ripple effects of resilience, hope, and wellbeing throughout Oregon.
Why Your Support Matters
Cancer affects more than the physical body; it impacts every facet of life. Your generosity enables us to offer grants to women so they can receive integrative oncology support helping women thrive during and after their cancer journey. Together, we can make a difference.
Addressing financial barriers
Supporting whole-person healing
Filling gaps for underserved populations
Women from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, rural areas, or marginalized communities often have less access to supportive care options that could improve their cancer journey outcomes.
Empowering patient choice
Funding creates the opportunity for women to make more comprehensive healthcare decisions based on their personal needs rather than their financial limitations.
Enhancing quality of life
Integrative Oncology treatments aim to reduce side effects of necessary conventional cancer treatments, potentially improving energy levels, reducing nausea, supporting better sleep, and maintaining a better quality of life.
Supporting long-term survivorship
How You Can Help
Join Us in Courageous Care
At The Center for Courageous Health, we believe every woman facing cancer deserves access to compassionate, whole-person care. We offer access to integrative oncology support—including naturopathic medicine, nutrition counseling, acupuncture, emotional healing and more—to support women with resources to find strength, resilience, and hope at every stage of their journey.
But we can’t do it alone.
Your support—whether through a financial gift, in-kind donation, volunteer time, or professional collaboration—directly helps us provide healing care to women who might otherwise go without. Together, we can build a community of courage, compassion, and connection.
Join us in making a difference—because healing is stronger when we do it together.
Give
Donate Today and Together, We Can Make Integrative Cancer Care Accessible to All Women.
Volunteer
Be a Part of Healing—Volunteer with The Center for Courageous Health.
Collaborative Partner
Let’s Team Up to Bring Hope and Healing to Women Facing Cancer.
In Kind
Join Local Businesses Making a Lasting Impact for Women with Cancer
Interested in Becoming a Corporate Donor?
If your company shares our vision of empowering women through integrative cancer care, we’d love to partner with you. Corporate donors play a vital role in helping us expand access to life-changing services for women on their healing journey.
To explore sponsorship opportunities or make a corporate gift, please contact us support@courageoushealth.org.
Together, we can create a stronger, healthier community—one courageous woman at a time.
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