High School Cancer Awareness Clubs

A Step by Step Guide to Starting a
High School Cancer Awareness Club

1. Check in the your school office who the exact person is to speak with to start a club at your school.
2. Get your school’s application to start your cancer awareness club.
3. Choose a faculty advisor(s) to be the mentor for your club.
4. Tell all your friends you are doing it and explain to them your reasons.
5. Check the Connect4Cancer Toolkit for ideas to use.
6. Ask your friends who are interested to get their friends to join.
7. Decide what “roles” and “titles” are needed to direct your clubs meetings and activities.
8. Make sure the initial students who join all have “roles” and “titles. (i.e., president, treasurer, event manager).
9. Remember the #1 rule of the club is to be “inclusive”.
10. Try to have students join from all grades so that the club can pass down thru the grades as seniors graduate.
11. Write down the mission (what your club stands for and what are it’s goals) and any specific rules.
12. Have a meeting to introduce all the club members to each other. Brainstorm ideas.
13. Work on ideas to publicize your club around your high school campus.
14. If you need help from Connect4Cancer let us know. We want to help.
15. Try to plan one activity per month to be the focus of the club’s activities.