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EPL 101

Want to volunteer with COLONTOWN?

Your guide to becoming an Empowered Patient Leader

This course will help you learn all about volunteering with COLONTOWN. You might want to take this course if you enjoy helping others in COLONTOWN or feel ready to give back to your community. Open only to COLONTOWN members.

Welcome to EPL 101!

Our Empowered Patient Leaders (EPL) workshop is a self-paced online course to help you learn more about COLONTOWN and prepare you to take a more active leadership role in our community. 

You may have heard about our virtual or in-person EPL events. Now, you’re experiencing the future of EPL — a self-paced online course where you can learn what you need to know on your own schedule. 

This course is a prerequisite for becoming a volunteer in COLONTOWN. 

Learning Center Content

INTRO: WELCOME TO EPL 101
Course goals
Featured volunteers
MODULE 1: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
Module 1: Introduction
History of COLONTOWN + PALTOWN
Who’s who?
Community structure
Community guidelines
Volunteering with COLONTOWN
MODULE 2: MEET & GREET
Community Programs
Education Programs
…And so much more!
Our special sauce
Funding + fundraising
MODULE 3: THE MORE YOU KNOW
CRC 101: Key resources
Get to know DocTalks and Resource Fairs
Task: Lecture Hall scavenger hunt 1 Task
Lecture Hall: Key resources
MODULE 4: SHARING IS CARING
Our Guiding Principles
Empathy
Health equity
Handling tough conversations
MODULE 6: CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE
Module 6: Introduction
Stage I + II pathway
Stage III pathway
Stage IV pathway
Survivor pathway
Carepartner pathway
Science pathway
Future planning pathway
The cost of cancer pathway
MODULE 7: OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO
Congratulations!