For employers, HR leaders and benefits teams
Give your people cancer support that goes beyond treatment.
UCAN at Work adds a verified directory of cancer support to your benefits. Employees and the people who care for them find financial help, rides, housing and emotional support near home, in every state you operate in.
United Cancer Network is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Free for employees, always.
Ask RenI need help with gas money for chemo appointmentsExample. Organizations shown depend on state and cancer type.
Why it matters
Most people don't learn what help exists until they're already overwhelmed.
Your health plan covers treatment. UCAN covers the rest of the list: the rides, the bills, the kids, the quiet hours in between.
Patients
Organizations for their diagnosis, filtered by cancer type and state, with local help listed first.
Caregivers
Partners, parents and adult children find their own support and respite, not only the patient's.
Managers and HR
One trusted link to share, instead of searching for the right answer each time someone asks.
Personalized Cancer Support
Every Step Of The Way
Benefits
What your people get. What your company gets.
For employees and families
- Local and national organizations, sorted so nearby help comes first
- Financial aid, housing, transportation, camps, scholarships and more
- A wellness library: books, meditations, cookbooks and virtual support groups
- Ren, a guided assistant that matches a need to the right organizations
- A saved support guide to return to and share with family
- Helplines and crisis numbers one tap away
For your company
- A caring, practical benefit your people can use straight away
- Fewer hard questions landing on HR and managers
- Complements your EAP and health plan
- Nothing to build, install or maintain
- Coverage for employees in every state you operate in
One simple addition
Add practical, emotional, financial and local cancer support to your employee intranet or wellbeing portal.
One embed code and a simple copy and paste. UCAN does not replace your benefits platform. It gives it somewhere to point.
Link from your benefits portal
One link on your benefits site, intranet or new hire guide.
Pair it with your EAP
Counselors and care navigators get a practical, local referral list.
A welcome page in your name
A page for your company, set to your states, with a note from you.
Share where people already are
Slack, Teams, HR newsletters and manager toolkits.
Employees use UCAN privately. No logins, no HR integration, and nothing about an individual is ever shared with an employer.
For managers and HR
When someone on your team is facing cancer, managers will know what to do.
A diagnosis, or a parent or partner in treatment, changes what a person can carry at work. Most managers have never had that conversation. UCAN at Work walks them through it moment by moment, with the words that help and templates they can send today. HR sets it up once.
What’s happening right now?
A working preview. Pick a moment to see the shape of the guide. The rest opens with your company page, and we walk you through all of it first.
Managers get
A guide for every moment
- Six moments, from the day they are told to the day someone comes back
- What to expect, what to do this week, and what to say
- Five message templates, ready to send
- What a manager can ask, and what goes to HR
- Seven short training modules
HR gets
Rollout, done once
- A rollout checklist, from the intranet link to open enrollment
- A one-page manager guide for the first conversation
- Announcement copy for your people
- Check-in, return-to-work and caregiver templates
- The employee link, set to your states
Everyone keeps
Their privacy
- Employees use UCAN without a login
- Nothing about an individual reaches a manager or the company
- A manager hands over the practical list and never sees who opens it
- Only anonymous usage totals come back to HR
Inside the manager guide
- Six moments, each with what to expect, what to do this week and the words that help
- The one thing to avoid, for every moment
- The first conversation, in three steps
- Five templates, written and ready to change
- Privacy and the law, and what goes to HR
- Local support to hand over, set to your states
- A rollout checklist for whoever owns benefits
Guidance we trust
The manager guidance in UCAN at Work is written to line up with the Cancer in the Workplace: Supervisor Tip Sheet, co-authored by the American Cancer Society and the Business Group on Health, and with published guidance from the EEOC, the U.S. Department of Labor and Triage Cancer. Those organizations are the authorities. UCAN is not one and does not speak for them.
General guidance, not legal advice. Leave and accommodation rules vary by state and company size, so check with HR or counsel.
See the whole guide on a call.
We will walk you through every moment and every template, then set it up in your company’s name and to the states you choose.
Make it yours
Start with your state, or offer the whole network.
Choose the footprint that matches your workforce. Change it any time.
Your page would cover
Getting started
Live for your team in three steps.
Tell us where your people are
Share your states and sites. We set the local view to match.
We prepare your embed
You review a welcome page and a short announcement you can edit.
Share it with your team
Add the link to your benefits channels. There is nothing to install.
Questions
What HR teams ask first.
What does it cost?
UCAN is always free for employees and their families. Employers fund the program. One state for a smaller team starts at $3,000 a year, and pricing scales with the number of states you cover and the size of your workforce. Tell us what your people need and we will scope it with you.
Do we need IT involved?
Not necessarily. Most companies start with a link, which anyone who can edit your intranet or benefits page can add. If you would rather have UCAN sitting inside your portal, we give you an embed code to paste in, which usually takes a few minutes. Either way we prepare the page itself.
Will we see what our employees search for?
No. Employees use UCAN privately, and no individual activity is shared with employers.
Is this medical advice?
No. UCAN connects people with organizations and resources. It does not give medical advice, and it points people to their care team for medical questions.
How do you keep listings accurate?
Organization names, descriptions and links are verified state by state, and anyone can suggest a new organization through the site.
Can employees outside our main state use it?
Your page covers the states you choose, so employees in each of them see organizations near home. More states can be added at any time. Nationwide coverage, including the national directory, is a separate addition for distributed and remote teams. Tell us where your people are and we will set the footprint to match.
Request a walkthrough
Let’s provide UCAN for your workforce.
A 20 minute call. We show the employee experience and map it to your states.
- Walk through the employee view
- Choose your states or go nationwide
- Leave with a link and announcement copy to share