Location
This is a virtual volunteer opportunity. Volunteers connect with people facing breast cancer through a website or mobile app.
Time Commitment
Weekly time commitment varies based on your preferences and the number of requests received. Scheduling is flexible, and the mobile app makes volunteering convenient. Volunteers should be able to respond to requests within 24 hours.
Required Training
Reach To Recovery volunteers must complete an online training. Training is required to help ensure high-quality delivery of the program.
Benefits
Volunteers give patients an opportunity to express feelings, talk about concerns, and ask questions. Most importantly, Reach To Recovery volunteers offer understanding, support, and hope because they themselves have survived breast cancer. It is an ideal volunteer opportunity for people who are breast cancer survivors, like one-on-one interaction, want a flexible schedule, and can encourage others. It’s a truly meaningful and rewarding experience.?
Volunteer Positions and Responsibilities
Volunteers use a website or mobile app to provide support to breast cancer patients.
Additional Requirements
- Volunteers must have had a diagnosis and undergone treatment for breast cancer and be at least one-year post-treatment, excluding hormonal therapies. Volunteers are also eligible if they are undergoing maintenance chemotherapy or if their cancer is dormant but will be undergoing treatment for the rest of their lives.
- Volunteers need to have strong communication skills, be empathetic, and be emotionally well-adjusted.?
- Volunteers need to be comfortable using a computer and/or mobile device and have reliable internet access.
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