In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we wanted to spread the word about the Y-ME hotline (1-800-221-2141). This is a grass roots support system, founded by Ann Marcou and Mimi Kaplan in 1978. The Y-ME website explains more about their mission and how they provide support and encouragement to those fighting the battle with breast cancer. The hotline is staffed 24 hours a day by trained peer counselors who are also breast cancer survivors. Y-ME is different from other Breast Cancer organizations, in that their primary goal is not fund raising, but rather to provide people with breast cancer a person to talk with and the knowledge that they are not alone in their fight. We commend Y-ME for the great job they have done at building a circle of support around women with breast cancer.
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Louise Norris has been writing about health insurance and healthcare reform since 2006. In addition to the Colorado Health Insurance Insider, she also writes for healthinsurance.org, medicareresources.org, Verywell, Spark by ADP, and Boost by ADP, and Gusto. Follow on twitter and facebook.