Camp Quality is an Australian non-governmental and non-profit organisation based in Sydney, Australia. Camp Quality aims to provide support for children living with cancer and their families. Camp Quality's programs are designed specifically for children aged up to 15 years who are dealing with a cancer diagnosis (this could be their own, a sibling's or parent's). The incidence rate of childhood cancer rose by 35 per cent between 1983 and 2014 in Australia - and it is expected to increase a further seven per cent over the next 20 years. This means that growing numbers of children and families will need the kind of services and support programs that Camp Quality provides to help them cope with a diagnosis of cancer.Camp Quality is registered as a charity by the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission as a public benevolent institution, and is endorsed as a deductible gift recipient.
The diverse technical chapters in this volume reflect the many ways in which women are contributing to telecommunications and its varied applications in the twenty-first century. This chapter describes the contributors’ wide-ranging career paths and illustrates how their talents and specialties within telecommunications specialties connect them to each other and to the pioneers of Chap. 1 . For this volume of the Springer Women In Engineering and Science Series, our focus is Telecommunications. Certainly, the pandemic that started in early 2020 showed us the vital role telecommunications can play in keeping commerce and daily human connection going, even while most of the world was required to shelter-in-place to curtail spread of a highly infectious disease. Dajana Cassioli, Margaret Lyons, Beng Connell, Afreen Siddiqi, Derya Malak, and Ernestina Cianca develop and deploy radio systems for commercial networks and First Responder/Public Safety agencies. Carole Perry created and ran a middle school curriculum to train amateur radio operators. Maria Sabrina Greco, Silvia Liberata Ullo, Fabiola Colone, Yonina Eldar, Ernestina Cianca, and Francesca Filippini accomplishments lie in the area of radar and Satellite sensing and communications. Kit August, Eleonora Losiouk, Monica Bugallo, Rabia Yazicigil, Ernestina Cianca and Marina Ruggeri have integrated their work with bio-medicine and bio-engineering to truly bring telecommunications to humanity and “connecting the unconnected” as Marina Ruggieri notes in her biography. We have created the Women in Telecommunications Volume to celebrate and honor their contributions.
This review aimed to (1) summarise the psychosocial needs of children/adolescents (0-18 years) with a parent with cancer across the illness trajectory (diagnosis to bereavement) and (2) evaluate existing interventions for this population. Medline, CINAHL, PsychInfo, EMBASE and Social Work Abstracts were systematically searched for articles published from 1985 to 2015. Of 98 full text articles retrieved, 12 reported on children's psychosocial needs, and 12 intervention studies were identified. Each article was appraised in accordance with the Mixed Method Appraisal Tool. Three factors emerged as critical to consider in future intervention development: (1) Children need age-appropriate information about their parent's cancer; (2) Children require support communicating with parents, family members and health professionals and (3) Children need an environment where they feel comfortable sharing positive/negative emotions and can have their experiences normalised among peers. All intervention studies reported at least one positive outcome, however, only five reported significant improvements in child/family functioning based on validated quantitative measure/s. Variability in study design and quality, combined with considerable heterogeneity in intervention characteristics and outcome variables limited the conclusions, which could be drawn. Therefore, further carefully designed and scientifically evaluated interventions for children facing a parent's cancer diagnosis are clearly warranted.
