support for survivors — Project Survive: The (Un)lucky Ones

Resources for Survivors

as recommended by Project Survive participants

Literature & Podcasts

“Cancer is random sometimes. People think, ‘Oh but you’re healthy, vegan, go to yoga…’ and cannot understand that this can just happen randomly, without family history
or behavior.”

Resources & Programs

Send It Foundation

Send It provides outdoor adventures for young adult (ages 21-40) cancer patients and survivors, removing them from their cancer experience and creating the space to play, connect, and have fun in the outdoors. Send It programs are multi-day adventures in Lake Tahoe and the San Francisco Bay Area, designed around activities such as mountain biking, skiing, surfing, climbing and backpacking; creating a vital community through shared experience

Imerman Angels

Imerman Angels partners individuals seeking cancer support with a Mentor Angel — a cancer previvor, survivor or caregiver who has been in their shoes. These one-on-one relationships inspire hope and offer the chance to ask personal questions and receive support from someone who is uniquely familiar with the experience. Mentor Angels can lend support and empathy while helping cancer fighters and caregivers navigate the system, determine their options and create their own support systems.

True North Treks

True North Treks is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower young adults and caregivers affected by cancer to "find direction through connection." One of the primary ways we do this is by taking groups on free backpacking and canoeing treks in beautiful and remote wilderness destinations where they can engage in three crucial connections that are missing from conventional cancer care: 1) connection with nature (after going through something as unnatural as cancer treatment), 2) connection with peers who get it and have walked a similar path, and 3) connection with oneself through mindful awareness practices, such as meditation and yoga.

“When you first tell people, it’s a good gauge of what they think —
not having chemo or radiation leads to assumptions of ‘oh you’re fine’.
The idea that it’s terminal or it’s nothing.”

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Resources for Survivors

as recommended by Project Survive participants

Literature & Podcasts

“Cancer is random sometimes. People think, ‘Oh but you’re healthy, vegan, go to yoga…’ and cannot understand that this can just happen randomly, without family history
or behavior.”

Resources & Programs

Send It Foundation

Imerman Angels

True North Treks

Live By Living

First Descents

Epic Experience

Camp Mak-A-Dream

Project Koru

“When you first tell people, it’s a good gauge of what they think —
not having chemo or radiation leads to assumptions of ‘oh you’re fine’.
The idea that it’s terminal or it’s nothing.”

Project Survive: The (Un)Lucky Ones

Resources for Survivors

as recommended by Project Survive participants

Literature & Podcasts

“Cancer is random sometimes. People think, ‘Oh but you’re healthy, vegan, go to yoga…’ and cannot understand that this can just happen randomly, without family history or behavior.”

Resources & Programs

“When you first tell people, it’s a good gauge of what they think — not having chemo or radiation leads to assumptions of ‘oh you’re fine’. The idea that it’s terminal or it’s nothing.”

Project Survive: The (Un)Lucky Ones

“Cancer is random sometimes. People think, ‘Oh but you’re healthy, vegan, go to yoga…’ and cannot understand that this can just happen randomly, without family history
or behavior.”

“When you first tell people, it’s a good gauge of what they think —
not having chemo or radiation leads to assumptions of ‘oh you’re fine’.
The idea that it’s terminal or it’s nothing.”