Community Impact: Hear My Voice Outreach Volunteers
Living Beyond Breast Cancer’s Hear My Voice: Outreach Volunteer Program provides the tools and training to help people living with metastatic breast cancer make a difference in their physical and digital communities. Since the founding of the program in 2015, LBBC has enrolled over 100 volunteers who use their talents and the power of community to educate, connect and support each other and their peers living with a stage IV breast cancer diagnosis. Over 100,000 people in diverse communities nationwide have been reached by Hear My Voice volunteers.
These pages are a window into the activities and impact of our volunteers. Hear their voices by reading the blog posts below. In them, they discuss advocacy projects, their individual experiences with metastatic breast cancer, and their thoughts and emotions as they make sense of this diagnosis and life with ongoing cancer treatment. From time to time we also feature the views and voices of caregivers and others. Please bookmark this page and check back often!
This Community Impact page is made possible by a Leadership Sponsorship by Lilly Oncology. Living Beyond Breast Cancer thanks Lilly for its support of LBBC and the women, men, families and communities impacted by metastatic breast cancer.
Living Beyond Breast Cancer is grateful to all the Hear My Voice Outreach Program sponsors. View the full list of sponsors here.
Community Impact: Volunteers in Action
March 23, 2018
Michelle Hauser-Wallace has learned to be “mindful of my body, suspicious of unusual changes, and to call out those concerns”
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March 23, 2018
At least once every week Renae Byre travels 4 hours round trip for metastatic breast cancer treatment
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March 23, 2018
Heather Donohue writes about measuring life “in monthly increments, between scans, and based on what treatment we are on at the moment”
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February 21, 2018
Having her caregiver’s support, in all its forms, is important to Cheryl Fuentes
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November 29, 2017
Victoria Hill-Gilbert participated in Writing the Journey, our writing workshop series for people affected by breast cancer. She wrote this piece, "The Good Doctor," during the workshop.
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November 21, 2017
Heather Donohue participated in Writing the Journey, our writing workshop series for people affected by breast cancer. She wrote this piece, "Listen to Me, My Body," during the workshop.
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September 18, 2017
For Know Stage IV, Valerie Roybal writes about making the most of the time she has, including embracing her inner artist.
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September 18, 2017
For Know Stage IV, Anise Smith writes about how metastatic breast cancer forced her to stop working and upended her finances and her sense of purpose.
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September 18, 2017
For Know Stage IV, Christine Hodgdon writes about the “messy process” of accepting the many new identities that became part of her life after she was diagnosed with cancer.
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