{"id":397207,"date":"2025-07-24T22:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T22:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/?p=397207"},"modified":"2025-07-25T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:22:56","slug":"ojai-cares-cancer-support-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/ojai-cares-cancer-support-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Ojai CARES Cancer Support Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ojai CARES offers in-person Cancer support groups on the 4th Wednesday of the month at Ojai United Methodist Church, 120 Church Rd., Ojai at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>This cancer support group provides a safe space to connect with mothers coping with any type and stage of cancer and is led by Renne Mandala, a medical social worker who post provides emotional and practical support.<\/p>\n<p>A cancer support group can:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"arrow-list\">\n<li>Reduce feeling of loneliness, anxiety and distress.<\/li>\n<li>Help learn new ways of coping.<\/li>\n<li>Increase feelings of hope and empowerment.<\/li>\n<li>Provide you with practical information, treatment and resources.<\/li>\n<li>Help you communication better with your medical team and loved ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information call 805-646-6433 Monday-Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or email <a href=\"mailto:info@ojaicares.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">info@ojaicares.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ojai CARES offers in-person Cancer support groups on the 4th Wednesday of the month at Ojai United Methodist Church, 120 Church Rd., Ojai at 5:30 p.m. This cancer support group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":397208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40,48,42,47,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basic-assistance-community-events","category-hsa-community-events","category-counseling-and-mental-health-community-events","category-support-for-parents-and-families-community-events","category-support-for-seniors-community-events"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 18:43:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}