Peer support group meetings are held monthly and alternate between evening and daytime. Dates subject to change. Please contact us for further information
Peer support group
At Breast Cancer Action, our motto is “Part of Your Story”.
No truer words were ever spoken when it comes to life altering events, like breast cancer. No one who hasn’t been through it will understand the way someone who has been through it will. Family and friends and the medical system will be huge parts of the breast cancer journey. But when a patient just wants to take off the wig, have a cry or just ask questions, then peer support can often be a huge resource.
Our peer support group meets on the second Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm. It is peer led. No professionals. Just those diagnosed with breast cancer talking to others about what it’s like to face a breast cancer diagnosis, what it’s like to go through treatment, and what it’s like to face life after treatment.
Peer Support Group Support Meeting
Please contact for further information at 613-736-5921 or at ed.bca@bcaott.ca
Peer support counselling
Our peer supporters are a group of people, mostly women, who have all had breast cancer in some form or another. We have all attended a two-day counselling workshop led by a professional social worker and psychologist. But most importantly, we have all signed up to do this because we care about those following in our footsteps.
When a patient/survivor calls, we try to match them to a peer supporter who has been through similar procedures or diagnoses or experiences. A phone call is all it takes. Our feeling is that sometimes just knowing that someone ahead of you got through what you are about to face, is just enough to take the edge off – to reassure you that you too will get through this.
We survivors have a lot of joint experience and tips and tricks up our sleeves that we are more than willing to share.
For these and any other peer related questions, please don’t hesitate to email info@bcaott.ca. Because we will meet you wherever you are.
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Andrea Douglas – Chair, Peer Support
“My journey with breast cancer began in early summer of 2014. I wish I had found Breast Cancer Action then. It was a long lonely summer filled with question marks and fear. Of course, I knew I wasn’t the only one, but I didn’t know how to find the others. Then I started attending the Fitness classes in the fall, as treatment would permit. I found strength and energy. I found others. And I count exercise as the number one factor in my return to health. I want that for all the women who will travel my path. I want to reach out and give back through Breast Cancer Action. My background in politics, writing and decades of volunteer activism will help me help others.” -Andrea
Phone: 613.736.5921
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