Janet Greenhaw

Adept Resource Navigator with extensive experience in emergency management and decision-making, excelling in high-stress situations. Proven track record of leveraging technical aptitude and profound compassion to assist individuals across a spectrum of illnesses, securing necessary resources and support. Demonstrated success in team coordination and public speaking, significantly improving outcomes for numerous clients while self-employed.

My biggest accomplishment thus far in my life is helping my family, friends,acquaintances, and public with everything they may need. Whether it's caregiving for my family,getting resources for the ill so the y can get to treatments or finding help to pay bills,hotels to stay during care or whatever it may be i get the job done.

I have so much experience in obtaining resources for so many illnesses in the last 17 years. I started researching so many organizations,non profits and cooperations that help people when people when they are sick or down on their luck. My son was in a horrible car accident in 2007 and sustained a traumatic brain injury, lacerated liver, punctured lung and needed many blood transfusions. This started my journey as a researcher/resource navigation and coordinator because i had to find programs fast as the caregiver i had no income and we needed help.

In 2018 my husband found out that he had stage 4 rare metastatic sarcoma cancer. We were devastated and was told that he had only six months to live. The local oncologist really didn't have much to say as far as treatment or hope. So we went home and after a couple of days of feeling defeated and our future looking grim i started researching places that specialized in his type of cancer and I found Md Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. I called them and asked them to contact local oncologist in hopes they could help him. Two days later he had an appointment and within a week we were headed to Houston. After being treated with aggressive chemo immediately after the consultation we were informed that we would be there longer then expected. We had limited amount of funds because he was on SSDI and we had one week's hotel paid not two months. I had to start researching for help on places to stay, help with food and rides to and from the hospital. In a few days I had found a non profit cancer house for us to go stay free of charge. Then i learned by researching the hospital what I could ask a social worker for to help in some situations. I also found help with some meals at the hospital , and even found out we could receive a cash voucher or visa card to help with Uber's or just living expenses if I asked specifically for that.

After several months my husband was done with his aggressive chemo and out of the woods we returned home. I had obtained so much information that I could use on our next visit down to Houston and back then it was sometimes every month for awhile. Then every three months to six months and now after five years it is finally down to once a year.

Getting back home and still having chemo locally under Md Anderson Cancer Center and many Dr apps i had then find local resources to help us pay bills, money for gas or just food banks because things got really hard. I found places to help pay our mortgage for a month, or take care of some of the bills so I could concentrate on my husband and not worry about bills etc.

Through the years of our son's brain injury and then my husband's cancer I have seen the look on people's faces as they are in the hospital waiting on doctor's to tell them they or their loved ones can be treated or not and it is horrific to see that. I know how they feel because that was me and that is why i carry around information and can give people. They might need flight help to get to hospital from a different state like us, or they may just need information they do not know about the hospital. Whatever they need i usually know after talking to them and i can give them the information they need to help them.

I have been doing this for free all these years simply because i care and that's ok because i want to help people but I need an income. It takes a lot of time and research hours and typing, printing, calls to obtain so much information. I want to spend time with my husband, my loved ones and not worry about income and make memories. I have spent so much time trying to find ways to help so many with different areas of their life that i am not helping my family and our quality of life. I have to have an income for me and my family to live better instead of having to still worry myself about bills and trips down to hospital etc.

I am good at what I do and I love it and always do it and i have doctors, social worker's , nurses, and many others that give my name and number to some of their patients to call me to help them. I have many great reference's that will vouch for me and the work I do and the help i provide.

So in conclusion my greatest accomplishment is being able to help my family no matter what comes along in life. Then having access to so much information that I can help people get help with whatever they may need.