The American Cancer
Society is very much in need of breast cancer survivors who are willing to
spend just a little time to be trained--- from home--- as
ACS Reach to Recovery
volunteers. Both women and men are needed to help.
Once trained, the
volunteers are matched with patients newly diagnosed with breast cancer, who
are undergoing or about to undergo a similar treatment plan.
Please "pay it
forward" by helping to fulfill this great need. Only those of us
who have walked in their shoes can appreciate what new patients are
experiencing, and be available to lend an ear.
Requests for patient
phone visits are sent via email as ACS receives them.
If you are available to
respond to the request, the patient's contact information is then sent to
you. If you are not available, no need to respond. There is
no obligation to respond to every request.
Please see the attached
flier, then call 1-800-2272345 for more information on the Reach to Recovery
program.
Help us out by forwarding
this to any of your family members, friends, co-workers, friends of co-workers,
your patients --- any breast cancer survivor who has been out of active
treatment for at least a year.
The reward for being
involved in this program is knowing you have helped someone get through the
difficult journey through which you have already traveled, with the help of
your own family and friends.
Another,
or alternate, way you can help is by signing up for the Road to Recovery
program. Many patients are unable to drive themselves, and/or have no
other driver, and desperately need transportation to their
treatments. As a Road volunteer, you would help these patients get to
their appointments, but, again, there is no obligation to fulfill every
request. Call 1-800-2272345 for more information on volunteering, or
to sign up someone you know.