Personal support for women diagnosed with breast cancer
The Salem Hospital Breast Care Center Peer Navigator Program provides support and guidance to our cancer patients through one-on-one counseling with women who have been through it all — the Navigators. The Navigators are breast cancer survivors who help patients navigate through the breast cancer experience in an empowered, positive environment.
Immersed in love and compassion and strengthened by the awareness that life is a gift, these women are our “real” experts that “truly” understand what you and your family may be going through — they are here throughout your journey so you do not have to feel alone.
Meet the Navigators
The Navigators are community volunteers that have gone through an extensive training program in order to provide you with the most valuable guidance based on their very personal experience. These volunteers are required to attend an eight-hour training course each year which is led by a variety of medical and community professionals and includes:
- Communication techniques
- Confidentiality issues
- Cancer treatment options information
- Respecting differences
- Case consultation and supervision
- Stages of loss and grieving
- Psychosocial issues
- Medical Oncology
- Medical Radiation Oncology
- Problem-solving techniques
The peer navigator program is made possible in part from a generous grant provided by The Oregon and SW Washinton affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation which is dedicated to the on-going battle to eradicate breast cancer as a life threatening disease and to assist women enduring this fight.
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