Do you need help or support after a breast cancer diagnosis?
You Can Thrive! Foundation has trained and experienced survivor advocates and patient navigators on staff. We believe in meeting face-to-face in a private, safe, comfortable and peer supportive environment. 
Our founder, Luana, has recruited several qualified advocates that you can meet with and air your story and concerns.
Three patient navigators who donate time at our center are:Carol Brooks, a molecular biologist and amazing advocate and counselor. Luana our Director and Eileen Fuentes a survivor, trained patient navigator and nutritional counselor.
Photo Below: Pictured are some of our amazing volunteer staff and advocates in training. Dawn, Dae, Del, Haydee, Luana, Janet and many others. You'll love our friendly and giving volunteers. 
You can meet our advocates in person every Sunday at the You Can Thrive! Integrative Wellness Center for Breast Cancer, at 115 E 23rd St 12th Floor (near Park Ave)
If you are a breast cancer survivor interested in personal advocacy or navigation services please
Contact Us for an appointment or to be placed on our wait list to enter the program.
Pet and Peer Support
Psychosocial services can provide significant benefits in quality of life and success in coping with serious and life-threatening disease for patients and their families. Besides meeting their peers each week and having an informal supportive environment we offer pet therapy.
Animals have incredible calming energy. It is profound to place a cuddly pooch in the lap of a traumatized survivor and witness the change.
Here you see another of our advocates, providing comfort, his name is Fonzie and he's 4.5 pounds of calm love. He a licensed AKC canine good citizen and service pooch and he does wonders when emotions overpower us. He's really good at relaxing us, and relaxing with us.
Our wellness model provides a relaxing forum in which surivors find each other and as equals they come together and share experiences for a unique friendship and informal peer-support experience.