What is Bobby's Coaches?
A peer support program that creates a sense of community among young adults as they navigate typical age-related transitions like applying for jobs, dating, finding their voice, or gaining independence, all while experiencing cancer and its effects.
What is Peer Coaching?
The design
Our coaches are young adult cancer survivors who are trained and monitored by DUHS mental health professionals who support teen and young adults with chronic conditions gain skills for long-term health and wellness.
The process
The process has a goal of helping each participant understand where they see themselves going, what’s important to them about that, and what steps are meaningful and manageable to begin to take to get there.
The Topics
Our program explores topics such as relationships, communication, navigating the healthcare system, emotional coping, nutrition, self-image, fertility preservation, sexual health, and more.
The Approach
The coaching process meets each person where they are on any given day. Coaches are the experts in the coaching program, but patients are the experts in themselves.
Who Do We Serve?
Individuals between 18-30 years old...
...currently a patient within the Duke University Health System...
...who has had cancer or currently has cancer...
...and have access to a mobile device.
