A verified guide to the people, products, and places that help women navigate breast cancer.
Built by Charmica Knight, a triple negative breast cancer survivor, because this is the guide she needed and could not find. Centered first on Black women, who carry this disease at higher rates and too often get the least support. Open to every woman who needs it.
Start anywhere. Each resource below is real, active, and free or low cost. Tap a name to go straight to them.
Everything here is verified and current. This is the gap Vérité Navigate was built to close, and the network it connects women to.
Wigs made for coily, curly, and kinky hair, created by a Black breast cancer survivor who could not find a medical wig that looked like her own hair.
What you getBuy directly online or ask your cancer center to carry them. Many can be billed to insurance as a cranial prosthesis.
Visit Coils to Locs →A national wig exchange that gets free wigs to women in treatment, no matter their income.
What you getRequest a free wig online. A small shipping donation is welcome but not required. Available in all 50 states.
Visit EBeauty →Free head scarves, each paired with a note and a story from another woman who has been where you are.
What you getRequest a free scarf in active treatment. Send it back with your own story when you are ready, and it travels on to someone else.
Visit Hope Scarves →Free workshops that teach how to handle the appearance side effects of treatment, from hair loss to skin and nail changes.
What you getFree in-person and virtual sessions on wigs, scarves, skin, and makeup, led by trained beauty professionals.
Visit Look Good Feel Better →A national home for Black women facing breast cancer, built on education, advocacy, and a community that truly understands.
Meetings & groupsA monthly survivor support group, a weekly live show called The Doctor Is In on Wednesdays at 6pm ET, and clinical trial matching through WhenWeTrial.org.
Visit TOUCH →The largest national African American breast cancer survivorship organization, with survivor-run chapters across the country, including Michigan.
Meetings & groupsA private Facebook support community, a financial assistance program for survivors, and the National Black Breast Cancer Summit each fall.
Visit Sisters Network →The first online community built by and for women of color affected by breast cancer.
Meetings & groupsA private Facebook community of survivors and thrivers, real stories, and culturally relevant resources and events.
Visit For the Breast of Us →A national foundation working to end disparities of age, stage, and color, with hands-on support and navigation built around young women of color, roughly ages 15 to 45.
Meetings & groupsThe ANGEL advocacy training program, a navigation program, and in-person Bliss Collective community gatherings. They go out of their way to skip the medical jargon.
Visit Tigerlily Foundation →A warm, judgment-free virtual community for anyone facing breast cancer and their caregivers, with a large free library of information.
Meetings & groupsFree weekly virtual meetups, including the Thursday Night Thrivers group, a book club, well-being sessions, and dedicated spaces for metastatic and inflammatory breast cancer.
Visit SurvivingBreastCancer.org →An all-inclusive community for survivors, previvors, thrivers, and caregivers affected by breast and gynecologic cancers, with protected spaces so no one feels out of place.
Meetings & groupsFree weekly virtual meetups through their app, including a BIPOC Breasties space and groups for active treatment and stage 4, plus Camp Breastie, their annual summit.
Visit The Breasties →The first resource hub built for Black and Afro-Latina women with triple negative breast cancer, by the community, with medical review.
What you getPlain-language information on TNBC, treatment, and survivorship, plus a short questionnaire that points you to the right resources for your diagnosis.
Visit Black TNBC Sanctuary →The leading foundation focused on triple negative breast cancer, the aggressive type that affects Black women at higher rates.
What you getA support hotline through CancerCare, trusted information you can understand, and help finding research and clinical trials.
Visit the TNBC Foundation →The cancer center serving Kalamazoo and Southwest Michigan, with care that walks with you from diagnosis through survivorship.
What you getNurse navigation, financial navigation, social workers, support groups, and an on-site cancer resource library. Ask to speak with oncology social work.
Visit Bronson Cancer Center →Michigan's only NCI-designated cancer center, with a dedicated focus on health equity for Black patients.
What you getPatient navigation, care available statewide, and an Office of Cancer Health Equity and Community Engagement built around the needs of Black patients.
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