Charity: Women Supporting Women
Women Supporting Women is a community served and community supported agency that serves the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Our mission is to provide awareness, education, friendship, and support for breast cancer survivors and their family and the community. Our group of survivors as grown to include women ages 28 to 80 years old.
We provide simple, but private & personalized services by distributing educational tote bags; through breast surgeon’s offices, fit women with free wigs, provide supplementary mastectomy bras; and we meet with individuals and family members in personal sessions to provide a source for information as they traveled through the different stages of their difficult journey.
Survivors are personally touched when our mentors make contact with them soon after diagnoses or treatment. We attend educational and awareness health fairs, through civic and business organizations as well as on local college campuses. Our regional newsletter is distributed to over 1,100 survivors and friends monthly. Our agency is now regional and includes six counties on the Peninsula with a new office in Easton that serves Dorchester, Talbot and Caroline counties. Many of the women are underinsured and underserved; it is our hope and mission to bring them hands on services to help improve their quality of life.
In 2007 Women Supporting Women was the recipient of a Susan G. Komen for the Cure® grant, “Life after Breast Cancer”: Return to Independence. The program’s focus was to “return survivors to their pre-cancer life style.” We served forty breast cancer survivors in Wicomico, Worcester, Somerset, and Dorchester Counties with the hope to bring them functional independence and improved quality of life. Survivors had direct access to acupuncture for the reduction of long term pain, nutritional advice to improve immune system and aqua therapy focusing on upper extremity movement, flexibility and strength.
Women Supporting Women Regional Chapter offices locations:
- Salisbury Chapter, 106 W. Circle Ave. Suite 101 in Salisbury, (410) 548-7880.
- Berlin Chapter, Atlantic Business Center Suite 107, Berlin (410) 641-2849
- Crisfield Chapter, 609 W. Main Street Unit 105, Crisfield (410) 968-9131
- Easton Chapter, 21 N. Hanson Street Suite 112, Easton (410) 410-822-9420