All Peer Mentor Guides are breast cancer survivors and thrivers that volunteer their time to support someone facing a breast cancer diagnosis. They’ve completed a training program developed for Firefly Sisterhood to help them best use their personal breast cancer experience to comfort and guide those they will be mentoring.

Yes, anything shared with Firefly Sisterhood will never be shared with anyone outside of the matching process.

Once we complete your mentor profile and you complete a New Guide training session, you will be added to our matching database. You will be contacted as soon as we have a support seeker whose experience is compatible with yours. There is no telling how long this could take.

It’s up to you and your Peer Mentor Guide to determine how frequently you would like to connect. The match may result in a few phone calls, or could continue for months during your treatment. You will also decide together how you would like to keep in touch, whether by phone calls, texts, or perhaps even meeting in person.

Our primary goal is to create meaningful one-to-one connections; however, we regularly organize social and educational gatherings to provide support and friendship within our community.

We will send emails to matched Sisters at one month and six months after a match is made to verify that the connection was successful. If at anytime the connection does not feel successful, you are encouraged to contact a staff member.

Because we provide support coast to coast, your matches may be living anywhere as long as they are able to commuicate in a way that works for both the Guide and Support Seeker. This can include email, phone calls, instant messaging, FaceTime, etc. A support seeker can indicate a preference for a local match and we will do our best to accommodate this request.

No, our Peer Mentor Guides are trained to not provide medical advice or diagnose a medical problem.